{"id":686,"date":"2004-11-21T06:31:07","date_gmt":"2004-11-21T10:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2004\/11\/21\/everything-about-the-incredibles-i"},"modified":"2004-11-21T06:31:07","modified_gmt":"2004-11-21T10:31:07","slug":"everything-about-the-incredibles-is-fantastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2004\/11\/21\/everything-about-the-incredibles-is-fantastic\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything about the Incredibles is&#8230; Fantastic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a644'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>Incredibles.&nbsp; lovely film.&nbsp; a pleasure to watch ten times over. And yet every watching is tempered by two things:<\/P><br \/>\n<P>1. Marvel Comics and the <STRONG>Fantastic Four<\/STRONG> get no credit, despite being inspiration for almost every superpower and character in the story.&nbsp; The FF in particular provided the template for most of the Incredible family, from their family worries to their particular powers.&nbsp; In an odd sort of homage, the gratuitous Next Villain who shows up at the end of the film was pulled straight out of FF #1, their first marvel comic ever.&nbsp; (<EM>Mole Man<\/EM> lives!)<\/P><br \/>\n<P>2. The last 15 min of the film are garbage, when compared to the glory of the rest of the film.&nbsp; They show how mediocre the whole film could have been, were there no time for <STRONG>polishing<\/STRONG> script, score&nbsp;or scenery.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incredibles.&nbsp; lovely film.&nbsp; a pleasure to watch ten times over. And yet every watching is tempered by two things: 1. Marvel Comics and the Fantastic Four get no credit, despite being inspiration for almost every superpower and character in the story.&nbsp; The FF in particular provided the template for most of the Incredible family, from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[207],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indescribable"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}