{"id":63,"date":"2016-03-23T14:14:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T14:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/?p=63"},"modified":"2016-04-08T14:26:13","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T14:26:13","slug":"the-finest-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/survival\/the-finest-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"The Finest Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BQmllwTKtqU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This &#8216;based on a true story&#8217; tale of a dramatic coast guard rescue in 1952 off Cape Cod is a Disney production. If you didn&#8217;t know that, you&#8217;d soon discern it . There are heroic men, plucky women, brooding old timers &#8211; at times you expect a helpful dog to show up. But it&#8217;s lack of modern shading is also its charm. This is not a self-referential, ironic take on dramatic rescue movies. It is a dramatic rescue movie, full stop. It features lots of men shouting things like &#8220;isolate the boiler&#8221;.<br \/>\nChris Pine pulls off gawkiness just believably enough, and Affleck is his usual introverted, reliable self. It has decent effects, some Martian like problem solving, and plain old people doing the right thing in face of adversity. It looks great for the most part also, and if a movie so much as mentions Nantucket, it&#8217;s okay with me.<br \/>\nIt doesn&#8217;t always work &#8211; the Pops old sea boy character is too cartoonish, as usual some of the CGI lacks weight, many of the at sea scenes have an on set feel, and the characterisation is two dimensional. But it&#8217;s enjoyable overall, and if you have dry eyes at the end you&#8217;re borderline sociopath. It may not be ground breaking or innovative, but it&#8217;s like a pub that only serves beer and pork pie &#8211; you may not want it every night, but sometimes it&#8217;s just what you want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This &#8216;based on a true story&#8217; tale of a dramatic coast guard rescue in 1952 off Cape Cod is a Disney production. If you didn&#8217;t know that, you&#8217;d soon discern it . There are heroic men, plucky women, brooding old timers &#8211; at times you expect a helpful dog to&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/survival\/the-finest-hours\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drama","category-survival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}