{"id":3619,"date":"2011-01-22T22:03:24","date_gmt":"2011-01-23T04:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/viddy\/roku\/reign-of-fire-1-5-stars\/"},"modified":"2011-01-22T22:03:24","modified_gmt":"2011-01-23T04:03:24","slug":"reign-of-fire-1-5-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/reign-of-fire-1-5-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Reign of Fire (1.5+ stars)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I think I prefer the Japanese title of this movie: Salamander. Reign of Fire (2002)<\/a> takes place in the near future (2020), after dragons re-emerge from hiding and destroy the world. (Oops, am I spoiling this for you?) You gotta wonder about the evolution of mammoth fire-breathing dragons, how they stayed dormant for centuries, how they had a population boom, then fall off in 20 years. And, I\u2019m not even spoiling the most preposterous aspect of dragon reproduction. Evolution may make mistakes like this, but they don\u2019t dominate the planet (unless you\u2019re thinking of humans).<\/p>\n

I was intrigued by the prospect of seeing Christian Bale and Gerard Butler together, and they were quite enjoyable as buddies. I figured I\u2019d turn the movie off when Matthew McConaughey showed up, but he didn\u2019t look or sound anything like MM, so, I stuck with it. Not that I\u2019m recommending that to anyone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think I prefer the Japanese title of this movie: Salamander. Reign of Fire (2002) takes place in the near future (2020), after dragons re-emerge from hiding and destroy the world. (Oops, am I spoiling this for you?) You gotta wonder about the evolution of mammoth fire-breathing dragons, how they stayed dormant for centuries, how … Continue reading Reign of Fire (1.5+ stars)<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}