{"id":6359,"date":"2013-07-02T23:09:50","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T05:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=6359"},"modified":"2013-07-02T23:09:50","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T05:09:50","slug":"the-avengers-0-stars-but-2-fingers-down-my-throat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/viddy\/the-avengers-0-stars-but-2-fingers-down-my-throat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Avengers (0 stars, but 2 fingers down my throat)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I detect the barest trace of Joss Whedon in this. (\u201cThere is only one god and I doubt he dresses like that.,\u201d among a few other lines.) I hope they gave him a dump truck full of money for this. May he use it to resurrect Firefly or for a Dr Horrible sequel.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it\u2019s always fun to see Samuel L. Jackson and Robert Downey, Jr., who was born to be Tony Stark. But this movie is 90 minutes too long (or 140) and you could show it instead of a Transformers sequel and most of the audience would be clueless. Awful. Awful. I want my time back.<\/p>\n<p>True, the flying invisible aircraft carrier and the flying mechano-reptilian space ships were interesting, though the former kept me thinking about Vincent Price in Master of the World (a *much* better movie &#8212; Whedon should do penance by reworking that one). Sigh, even the wit and genius of Joss Whedon resorts to endless gunfire and smash \u2018em up. What a waste of talent and money. I\u2019m so tired of such shit.<\/p>\n<p>But, I did enjoy the 1 second of screen time my friend Donavon Roberts had:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2013\/07\/Screenshot-257.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Screenshot (257)\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Screenshot (257)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2013\/07\/Screenshot-257_thumb.png\" width=\"644\" height=\"365\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I detect the barest trace of Joss Whedon in this. (\u201cThere is only one god and I doubt he dresses like that.,\u201d among a few other lines.) I hope they gave him a dump truck full of money for this. May he use it to resurrect Firefly or for a Dr Horrible sequel. Of course, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/viddy\/the-avengers-0-stars-but-2-fingers-down-my-throat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Avengers (0 stars, but 2 fingers down my throat)<\/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-6359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-viddy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359","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=6359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}