{"id":4902,"date":"2004-06-09T15:17:58","date_gmt":"2004-06-09T19:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/httpblogslawharvardeduceerock4\/2004\/06\/09\/just-give-us-t"},"modified":"2004-06-09T15:17:58","modified_gmt":"2004-06-09T19:17:58","slug":"just-give-us-the-money-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/2004\/06\/09\/just-give-us-the-money-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Give Us the Money Shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a970'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>I forgot to mention that I saw <EM>The Day After Tomorrow<\/EM> this weekend. I guess it says something that I was so unmoved by it that it didn&#8217;t seem worth mentioning. Except to say that I wish Roland Emmerich would give up on trying to string together a shaky excuse for a narrative to pad his special effects. It would be better if it were just a bunch of images of disaster. That&#8217;s all we&#8217;re there to see anyway. It&#8217;s like porn directors trying to string together a narrative around the sex scenes. Waste of time.&nbsp;Someone who was so flabbergasted by the lameness of the narrative wanted to argue&nbsp;that the lameness was intentional&#8211;a comment on the lameness of Hollywood action flicks&#8211;but I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s the case. I think it&#8217;s just half-ass. Emmerich may know it&#8217;s half-ass, but I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s trying to make any statement with that half-ass-edness. I think that&#8217;s way too generous.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>And what does that title even mean? Nonsense.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I forgot to mention that I saw The Day After Tomorrow this weekend. I guess it says something that I was so unmoved by it that it didn&#8217;t seem worth mentioning. Except to say that I wish Roland Emmerich would give up on trying to string together a shaky excuse for a narrative to pad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58QoK-1h4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}