{"id":87,"date":"2002-07-08T12:05:35","date_gmt":"2002-07-08T12:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2002\/07\/men_in_black_ii\/"},"modified":"2002-07-08T12:05:35","modified_gmt":"2002-07-08T12:05:35","slug":"men_in_black_ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2002\/07\/men_in_black_ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Men In Black II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not a bad little <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0120912\">film<\/a>, but nothing spectacular.  I must admit that I haven&#8217;t seen the original since I saw it the first time at the cinema, and I can&#8217;t exactly see myself rushing out to buy the DVD of this one.<br \/>\nSome good lines, and entertaining performances, but the CGI is not used with as much verve as it is in say <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0181689\">Minority Report<\/a>.  Basically we seem to have reached a point with CGI that every action flick has to have copious amounts, and frankly it doesn&#8217;t really startle as much as it did.  I remember getting excited by the monsters in <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0087332\">Ghostbusters <\/a>years ago, and we simply don&#8217;t seem to have moved on enough.  It just gets easier to do.  Did like the Peter Graves inserts though (undoubtedly extra material for the DVD release).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not a bad little film, but nothing spectacular. I must admit that I haven&#8217;t seen the original since I saw it the first time at the cinema, and I can&#8217;t exactly see myself rushing out to buy the DVD of this one. Some good lines, and entertaining performances, but the CGI is not used with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}