{"id":4561,"date":"2012-02-16T21:26:18","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T03:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=4561"},"modified":"2012-02-16T21:26:18","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T03:26:18","slug":"metrotopia-2-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/viddy\/metrotopia-2-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Metrotopia (2+ stars)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ultimately, this movie fails because it is so dreadfully slow. It fascinates with its animation, which seems based on real film distorted in an interesting way, producing anime like faces and Astro Boy like movements (the original; haven\u2019t seen the remakes). It looks like a descendant of Peter Gabriel\u2019s Big Time: newer, slicker, not as much fun. It is a dystopian tale of a corporate takeover of Europe and may be too European, if not too dystopian. I\u2019m not sorry I saw it, but I recommend so many <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/category\/viddy\/5-stars\/\">5-star movies<\/a> before this one: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/viddy\/ink-unlimited-stars\/\">Ink<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/viddy\/the-cavemans-valentine-5-stars\/\">the Caveman\u2019s Valentine<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/viddy\/jade-warrior-4-7-stars\/\">Jade Warrior<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/viddy\/franklyn-5-stars\/\">Franklyn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Curiously, Stig Larsson was one of the screenwriters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ultimately, this movie fails because it is so dreadfully slow. It fascinates with its animation, which seems based on real film distorted in an interesting way, producing anime like faces and Astro Boy like movements (the original; haven\u2019t seen the remakes). It looks like a descendant of Peter Gabriel\u2019s Big Time: newer, slicker, not as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/viddy\/metrotopia-2-stars\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Metrotopia (2+ stars)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-viddy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4561","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=4561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}