{"id":385,"date":"2009-05-11T19:00:07","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T07:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/?p=385"},"modified":"2013-09-18T09:21:54","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T21:21:54","slug":"point-click-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/point-click-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Point &#038; Click"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it the season or am I just being mean?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Screen Junkies<\/strong> has an excellent selection of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.screenjunkies.com\/movienews\/kids-letters-michael-bay\" target=\"_blank\">kids&#8217; letters to Michael Bay<\/a>, my favourite being:\u00a0 <em>07SEP12 UPDATE: Unfortunately the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.screenjunkies.com\" target=\"_blank\">Screen Junkies<\/a> image\/link thingie no longer works. If memory serves, it was a child&#8217;s hand-drawn picture requesting Mr Bay explode his &#8211; the child&#8217;s &#8211; father. Guess you had to&#8217;ve read it at the time.\u00a0 <\/em>(Fedora-tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/the_big_picture\/2009\/05\/ho-ho-ho-is-michael-bay-the-santa-claus-of-summer-movies.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Big Picture<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Ken Levine has his <a href=\"http:\/\/kenlevine.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/summer-movies-preview-part-one.html\" target=\"_blank\">2009 Summer Movies preview<\/a>, with all-time classics like:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0821640\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ghosts of Girlfriends Past<\/a> &#8211; A new spin on the single most tired premise in RomCom history &#8212; hire a leading man who is an enemy of comedy. Stars Matthew McConaughey and the lovely but not-exactly-hilarious Jennifer Garner.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1178663\/\" target=\"_blank\">Whatever Works<\/a> &#8211; Woody Allen&#8217;s 285th movie, the 247th with the same theme: older neurotic Jew in a relationship with hot young girl who could be his granddaughter. Larry David as Woody Allen. Reviews are mixed. Middle-aged Jews love it, young girls are appalled.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0452694\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Time Traveler&#8217;s Wife<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Where were you last night and don&#8217;t tell me the Middle Ages, you bastard!?&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Fedora-tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/the_big_picture\/2009\/05\/is-everybody-mocking-the-summer-movies-this-year.html\" target=\"-blank\">The Big Picture<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li>Forget Robert Rodriguez and his <em>Ten-Minute Film School<\/em>. I give you <strong>Mark L Lester<\/strong>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.screenjunkies.com\/movienews\/commando-best-film-ever-pt-1\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Commando<\/em> is the Best Film Ever<\/a> (with parts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.screenjunkies.com\/general\/commando-best-film-ever-pt-2\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.screenjunkies.com\/movienews\/commando-best-film-ever-pt-3\" target=\"_blank\">3<\/a>):\n<div style=\"margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;\"><em>[This] film wasn&#8217;t an accident, just like Jesus wasn&#8217;t an accident. It took real vision to pull off, starting with the theme of a parent\u2019s love for his child, and the lengths he will go to to get her back from a wily South American dictator. Also, it has explosions, and a rockin&#8217; saxophone-driven soundtrack that really gets the people moving in their seats.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it the season or am I just being mean? Screen Junkies has an excellent selection of kids&#8217; letters to Michael Bay, my favourite being:\u00a0 07SEP12 UPDATE: Unfortunately the Screen Junkies image\/link thingie no longer works. If memory serves, it was a child&#8217;s hand-drawn picture requesting Mr Bay explode his &#8211; the child&#8217;s &#8211; father. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/point-click-16\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Point &#038; Click&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9,5,4],"tags":[68,69,632,70,631],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-point-click","category-scriptwriting","tag-commando","tag-ken-levine","tag-la-times","tag-michael-bay","tag-screen-junkies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3779,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/3779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}