{"id":4863,"date":"2012-05-26T22:21:27","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T04:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=4863"},"modified":"2012-05-26T22:21:27","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T04:21:27","slug":"the-fall-3-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/viddy\/the-fall-3-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fall (3+ stars)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve wanted to see The Fall since it came out. Tarsem Singh directed The Cell, which completely blew me away. In both movies<\/a>, Tarsem features fantastical, vast landscapes \u2013 he has a painter\u2019s eye. Many scenes in both movies are fantastically beautiful.<\/p>\n

The Fall is also a bit of an homage to early film and to stuntmen. Above all, it celebrates imagination. However, the final half hour stumbles quite a bit. I\u2019d recommend The Cell, instead. <\/p>\n

The Fall (2006) – IMDb<\/a> <\/p>\n

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The Fall(2006<\/a>)<\/h3>\n

\"R\" 117 min  -  Adventure<\/a> | Drama<\/a> | Fantasy<\/a>  -  3 January 2008 (Russia)<\/a><\/p>\n

Ratings: 7.9<\/strong>\/10 from 46,079 users<\/a>  Metascore: 64\/100<\/a>
Reviews: 250 user<\/a> |166 critic<\/a> |23<\/a> from Metacritic.com<\/a><\/p>\n

In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastical story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances.<\/p>\n

Director: <\/h6>\n

Tarsem Singh<\/a> <\/p>\n

Writers: <\/h6>\n

Dan Gilroy<\/a> (screenplay), Nico Soultanakis<\/a> (screenplay), and 2 more credits<\/a> \u00bb <\/p>\n

Stars:<\/h6>\n

Lee Pace<\/a>, Catinca Untaru<\/a> and Justine Waddell<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Fall (2006) – IMDb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve wanted to see The Fall since it came out. Tarsem Singh directed The Cell, which completely blew me away. In both movies, Tarsem features fantastical, vast landscapes \u2013 he has a painter\u2019s eye. Many scenes in both movies are fantastically beautiful. The Fall is also a bit of an homage to early film and … Continue reading The Fall (3+ stars)<\/span> →<\/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-4863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-viddy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4863","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=4863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4864,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4863\/revisions\/4864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}