{"id":77,"date":"2009-09-05T11:45:22","date_gmt":"2009-09-05T18:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/?p=77"},"modified":"2010-05-04T21:42:48","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T04:42:48","slug":"gamer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"Gamer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Justin and I saw <em>Gamer<\/em> last night, and it wasn&#8217;t what either of  us thought it would be.  If you&#8217;re thinking of seeing it, this review is  spoiler-free, and worth looking at before you hand over your ten bucks.<\/p>\n<p>The main problem was that I was in the mood for a mindless  action movie, but that&#8217;s not exactly what <em>Gamer<\/em> was. There&#8217;s  plenty of action, but it&#8217;s got a lot of psychological sub-themes having  to do with control of other people and the whole gamer psyche. The  filmography is also jerky and designed to make you feel uncomfortable  the whole time.<\/p>\n<p>The action parts are well-executed, which is  probably why that&#8217;s all you see in the previews. The rest of it comes  out as idealistic film-school-student psychological mush, even though  some of the ideas explored could be interesting if they unfolded more  slowly and deliberately.<\/p>\n<p>The film had a great cast, but none of  the characters were developed, even though they could have been  interesting if further explored. Overall, the movie had too broad a  scope for film, and came off feeling rushed and unpolished as a result.  It would have made a better TV series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justin and I saw Gamer last night, and it wasn&#8217;t what either of us thought it would be. If you&#8217;re thinking of seeing it, this review is spoiler-free, and worth looking at before you hand over your ten bucks. The main problem was that I was in the mood for a mindless action movie, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}