{"id":4099,"date":"2011-06-14T14:45:24","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T20:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/viddy\/red-3-stars\/"},"modified":"2011-06-17T12:01:30","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T18:01:30","slug":"red-3-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/viddy\/red-3-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Red (3+ stars)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/media\/rm2662498304\/tt1245526\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; float: right\" title=\"Red Poster\" alt=\"Red Poster\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/ia.media-imdb.com\/images\/M\/MV5BMzg2Mjg1OTk0NF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMjQ4MTA3Mw@@._V1._SY317_.jpg\" height=\"317\" \/><\/a>I supposed it&#8217;s RED, all caps. RED has an all-star ensemble cast, or is that old-star? Of course, who doesn\u2019t love Bruce Willis or Morgan Freeman. There\u2019s a lot to like here, but it just didn\u2019t overcome my recurring disbelief, of calls put-through, to empty city streets, to vast explosive conspiracies.<\/p>\n<p>This might make an interesting double-bill with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/viddy\/salt-2-stars\/\">Salt<\/a>, another comic-book-based explosion-fest which is less cute. You can see why Hollywood loves comic books, er, graphic novels. Better comic books than old TV shows, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>[The plus in my rating is for Merri, who liked Red more than I did.]<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1245526\/\">Red (2010) &#8211; IMDb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I supposed it&#8217;s RED, all caps. RED has an all-star ensemble cast, or is that old-star? Of course, who doesn\u2019t love Bruce Willis or Morgan Freeman. There\u2019s a lot to like here, but it just didn\u2019t overcome my recurring disbelief, of calls put-through, to empty city streets, to vast explosive conspiracies. This might make an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/viddy\/red-3-stars\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Red (3+ 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-4099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-viddy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4099","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=4099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}