{"id":484,"date":"2011-01-31T11:36:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T11:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=484"},"modified":"2011-01-31T11:36:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T11:36:00","slug":"black-swan-and-other-film-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=484","title":{"rendered":"Black Swan, and other film notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Black Swan 5\/5 Superb &#8211; and there&#8217;s enough being said about it already, so I won&#8217;t add much. It was very much my sort of film.<br \/>Please Give 4.5\/5 Oestrogen-heavy, absorbing, perceptive, humane.<br \/>Jennifer&#8217;s Body 4\/5 Brilliant script<br \/>The A Team 5\/5 if only all action comedies were this delightful &#8211; &#8216;they&#8217;re flying the tank!&#8217;<br \/>Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief 3\/5 (barely) some good moments but a travesty of the book<br \/>Napoleon Dynamite 2\/5 The PS3 has this excellent &#8216;watch at 1.5 speed&#8217; button, keeping the sound, which I made extensive use of. The dance sequence was a good moment, but I found it too misanthropic on the whole.<br \/>Point Break (rewatch) 3.5\/5 Bodhi!<br \/>The Joneses 4\/5 witty critique of materialism<br \/>Painted Veil 4.9\/5 a really wonderful film, beautifully shot and well acted, that falls short of 5\/5 because I would quibble with the ending. Highly recommended though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Swan 5\/5 Superb &#8211; and there&#8217;s enough being said about it already, so I won&#8217;t add much. It was very much my sort of film.Please Give 4.5\/5 Oestrogen-heavy, absorbing, perceptive, humane.Jennifer&#8217;s Body 4\/5 Brilliant scriptThe A Team 5\/5 if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=484\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-7O","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}