{"id":4002,"date":"2011-05-16T22:55:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T04:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/viddy\/monsters-4-stars\/"},"modified":"2011-05-16T22:55:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T04:55:00","slug":"monsters-4-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/viddy\/monsters-4-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Monsters (4+ stars)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; float: right\" title=\"Monsters Poster\" alt=\"Monsters Poster\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/ia.media-imdb.com\/images\/M\/MV5BMjE4MzMyNjExMl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMzI5NjM3Mw@@._V1._SY317_.jpg\" height=\"317\" \/>Monsters bears some meta-similarity to District 9. Both movies are about the an alien presence that is less than an invasion and how, in a short time, we develop systems and routines for dealing with the aliens. (Alien Nation is the granddaddy of this genre.)&#160; The two principal actors are interesting; the bonding road trip is familiar, although the circumstances are unusual. Recommended for fans of low-tech sci fi.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1470827\/\">Monsters (2010) &#8211; IMDb<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Six years after Earth has suffered an alien invasion a cynical journalist agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through an infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the US border. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1470827\/\">Monsters (2010) &#8211; IMDb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monsters bears some meta-similarity to District 9. Both movies are about the an alien presence that is less than an invasion and how, in a short time, we develop systems and routines for dealing with the aliens. (Alien Nation is the granddaddy of this genre.)&#160; The two principal actors are interesting; the bonding road trip &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/viddy\/monsters-4-stars\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monsters (4+ stars)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-viddy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002","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=4002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}