{"id":722,"date":"2005-08-28T14:42:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-28T17:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=722"},"modified":"2005-08-28T14:42:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-28T17:42:00","slug":"rings-and-snafus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=722","title":{"rendered":"Rings and snafus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">W<\/span>e watched both the Rings movies last night. We had seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0298130\/\">&#8216;The Ring&#8217;<\/a> in the theatre before but decided to get and watch both of them. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0377109\/\">&#8216;Ring 2&#8217;<\/a> does not even come close to its predecessor.\n<\/p>\n<p>First of all, there are so many goof-ups that the one we discovered weren&#8217;t in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0377109\/goofs\">extensive list on IMDB<\/a>. The goof at and after the deer incident was the part that signalled that the worst was yet to come: watch the driver&#8217;s window after the first attack.\n<\/p>\n<p>As for &#8216;symbolism&#8217; used in the movie: while the producers appear to praise this part, I find the &#8216;symbolism&#8217; highly incoherent. It&#8217;s like if somebody has seen Twin Peaks and thought it was neat to drop in a couple of burning trees, deer and water all in a random order. The result is an unsettling movie: unsettling as in &#8216;bad&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We watched both the Rings movies last night. We had seen &#8216;The Ring&#8217; in the theatre before but decided to get and watch both of them. The &#8216;Ring 2&#8217; does not even come close to its predecessor. First of all, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=722\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}