{"id":432,"date":"2007-07-14T13:44:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-14T13:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/14\/movie-madness\/"},"modified":"2008-01-22T09:29:24","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T13:29:24","slug":"movie-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/14\/movie-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dave and I have been playing catch-up recently, trying to see some movies while they were still in the theatres.<\/p>\n<p>So, here&#8217;s what we&#8217;ve seen recently.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0416449\/\">300<\/a> &#8211; Lovely cinematography and plenty of eye candy, though I have to admit that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0124930\/\">Gerald Butler&#8217;s<\/a> Scottish accent was quite peculiar. I enjoyed the modern soundtrack and the action scenes were entertaining, but some of the creepy creatures were just too creepy. Oh, I also totally called that they filmed the Oracle scene <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0416449\/trivia\">under water<\/a> &#8211; yay for me! Did I mention that there is a lot of nudity in this film? Lots.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0425112\/\">Hot Fuzz<\/a> &#8211; Another brilliant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0670408\/\">Simon Pegg<\/a> movie! I love love love <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0562999\/\">Simon Pegg<\/a>, who I first saw in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0365748\/\">Shaun of the Dead<\/a>. I&#8217;ve seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shaunofthedeadmovie.com\/\">Shaun of the Dead<\/a> 4 times now, including the Zomb-o-meter version and the director&#8217;s commentary. If you haven&#8217;t seen it, rent it now! Hot Fuzz pairs Simon Pegg with his buddy Nick Frost once again. The action is terrific, the story never slows down, and the jokes don&#8217;t stop. It&#8217;s currently playing at the second-run <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carmike.com\/showtimedetails.aspx?theatrenumber=076140\">Carmike theatre<\/a> on Blue Ridge Road.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0418279\/\">Transformers<\/a> &#8211; More than meets the eye!! This movie is awesome! Really, really wonderful. Go see it now!! I sat with my knees pulled up to my chest the whole time &#8211; there&#8217;s not a minute of relaxing in this fast-paced, adrenline-packed movie. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0479471\/\">Shia LaBeouf<\/a> did a great job, but what kind of funny name is that? I also found myself feeling a dramatic surge of patriotism and pride watching all the arms of the military responding with lightnight speed and courage to the situations that were thrust upon them. Silly, I know, but that&#8217;s just who I am. *shrug*<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0486576\/\">Silver Surfer<\/a> &#8211; Not as bad as the first Fantastic Four movie, but not great by any means. I was never a fan of the comic so I wasn&#8217;t put off by how much they changed <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Galactus\">Galactus<\/a> for the movie. Jessica Alba continued to look plastic with her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simmetrical.com\/files\/donation_hair\/hazyshade_sharapril06\/hazyshade_sharapril06.jpg\">Sims hair<\/a>, freaky fake contacts and goofy blue eyeshadow. Ioan Gruffudd  (pronounced YO-an GRIFF-ith) is pretty cute though they didn&#8217;t give him enough gray at the temples. The Silver Surfer himself was pretty cool.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0373889\/\">Harry Potter<\/a> &#8211; We&#8217;re going to see it today!! Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/cmrpaul.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/that-was-my-fave-or-itt.html\">Cristin&#8217;s review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave and I have been playing catch-up recently, trying to see some movies while they were still in the theatres. So, here&#8217;s what we&#8217;ve seen recently. 300 &#8211; Lovely cinematography and plenty of eye candy, though I have to admit that Gerald Butler&#8217;s Scottish accent was quite peculiar. I enjoyed the modern soundtrack and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,31,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celeb","category-harry-potter","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}