{"id":5954,"date":"2013-03-09T10:30:49","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T16:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=5954"},"modified":"2013-03-09T10:30:49","modified_gmt":"2013-03-09T16:30:49","slug":"one-day-like-rain-0-stars-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/viddy\/one-day-like-rain-0-stars-really\/","title":{"rendered":"One Day Like Rain (0 stars — really)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I made the wrong choice of watching a dull, ponderous sci-fi-ish movie called One Day Like Rain. Instead of watching this film school exercise (C-), read the Rumi quote the title is drawn from. I shall spoil this 90 minute waste of time for you: moody adolescent girl uses "physics and chemistry" to grow crystals in her parents\u2019 garage and concocts a liquid from said crystals that causes hallucinations, catatonia, and, in the case of her best friend, death. I don’t follow the leap from there to the end\/beginning of the world and rain on troglodytes on Mars (owing something to the rock monster in the original StarTrek). A troupe of surprisingly eclectic bibliophilic homeless people figures in, somehow.<\/p>\n

In the end the moody girl has sex by the lake with her boyfriend, beginning or ending the world; "this is what the garden was for." Only a horny teenaged boy (redundant) could ignore her coital soliloquy (the third recitation of Rumi). All I could think about is how her boyfriend, twice as tall as she, must be humping her knees for their face-to-face missionary lovemaking. That tells you something about how riveting this movie is. Even the cameo by Jesse Eisenberg (Social Network) as the 20-year-old virgin brother was disappointing. At least, he didn’t confuse screaming with acting, favoring perplexed silence (as in, \u201chow will this help my career?\u201d — he may be the only one whose career didn\u2019t sink after this). Five minutes of rain yesterday exceeded the best 5 minutes of this movie, if you can find that many. It is fitting that the stars all wink out near the end — the perfect metaphor for a zero star movie. Please don’t watch it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I made the wrong choice of watching a dull, ponderous sci-fi-ish movie called One Day Like Rain. Instead of watching this film school exercise (C-), read the Rumi quote the title is drawn from. I shall spoil this 90 minute waste of time for you: moody adolescent girl uses "physics and chemistry" to grow crystals … Continue reading One Day Like Rain (0 stars — really)<\/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-5954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-viddy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5954","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=5954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}