{"id":1011,"date":"2022-05-14T19:40:49","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T01:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/homeSite\/?p=1011"},"modified":"2022-05-15T19:50:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T01:50:18","slug":"watched-firestarter-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/homeSite\/?p=1011","title":{"rendered":"Watched &#8211; Firestarter (2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m not usually a fan of remakes, and this movie makes me remember why. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I fondly remember the 1984 movie with Drew Barrymore, it was (I guess) a little more believable or maybe it&#8217;s because I was 12 and Drew&#8217;s character of Charlie was really cute. That movie seemed to flow right, you sympathized with the main character. This one not so much, after she torches her mom and a cat and leaves one of the antagonists intact it&#8217;s hard to be a big fan. In the end, the character disappoints on almost every front.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nothing against any of the actors, the acting was adequate, it&#8217;s just when you try to rehash a story that&#8217;s been played you get a tired, unrefreshing hour and thirty-six minute waste of time. 1.8 out of 5 and I&#8217;m being generous. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not usually a fan of remakes, and this movie makes me remember why. I fondly remember the 1984 movie with Drew Barrymore, it was (I guess) a little more believable or maybe it&#8217;s because I was 12 and Drew&#8217;s character of Charlie was really cute. That movie seemed to flow right, you sympathized with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/homeSite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/homeSite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/homeSite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/homeSite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/homeSite\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/homeSite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018,"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/homeSite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions\/1018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/homeSite\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/homeSite\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/homeSite\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}