{"id":207,"date":"2006-04-23T08:36:54","date_gmt":"2006-04-23T08:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/04\/23\/thank-you-for-griefpimping\/"},"modified":"2006-04-23T08:36:54","modified_gmt":"2006-04-23T08:36:54","slug":"thank-you-for-griefpimping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/04\/23\/thank-you-for-griefpimping\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank You for Grief-Pimping"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kate and I went to see Thank You for Smoking<\/cite> yesterday (Short review: About as good an adaptation of the original book as you could hope for, and much more my thing than Kate’s). The set of trailers we got was generally excruciating– lots of film-festival material about quirky families being awful to one another. Granted, it’s not really the audience you want to pitch X-Men III<\/cite> to, but I don’t know if I’ve seen a more dispiriting block of trailers ever.<\/p>\n

The most excruciating, of course, was the trailer for United 93<\/cite>, a lovingly detailed September 11th movie. And, apparently, based on poster in the lobby, not the only such movie in the works (and there’s already been one tv movie, hasn’t there?). Quite frankly, I’d rather stick forks in my eyes than see either of these.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure how long I’d expect people to wait before putting out detailed re-enactments of those particular events, but my immediate reaction is that five years isn’t really long enough. The thirty-ish years they waited between Pearl Harbor and Tora! Tora! Tora!<\/cite> (which seems to be the first Pearl Harbor movie<\/a> to do a detailed re-creation of the actual attack) might be excessive, but the minimum acceptable values is certainly more than five.<\/p>\n

And personally, I could live a long and happy life without ever seeing any of that footage again, let alone re-enactments of it. And don’t even think about posting comments about how we should “never forget.” There’s no danger of that– any time I want to ruin a morning, all I have to do is close my eyes, and I can see it frame by horrible frame.<\/p>\n

I may be staying clear of the multiplex until these have run their course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kate and I went to see Thank You for Smoking yesterday (Short review: About as good an adaptation of the original book as you could hope for, and much more my thing than Kate’s). The set of trailers we got was generally excruciating– lots of film-festival material about quirky families being awful to one another.… Continue reading Thank You for Grief-Pimping<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}