{"id":807,"date":"2007-12-01T12:56:20","date_gmt":"2007-12-01T16:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/12\/01\/a-familiar-feeling\/"},"modified":"2007-12-01T12:56:20","modified_gmt":"2007-12-01T16:56:20","slug":"a-familiar-feeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/12\/01\/a-familiar-feeling\/","title":{"rendered":"A Familiar Feeling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I went to see <em>Gladiator<\/em> many years ago, I was pretty hyped up for it. I didn&#8217;t expect an historically accurate movie, of course, and I was told it was a fun time with great special effects, strong acting and cinematography to die for. Plus Oliver Reed in his last great role. This was a serious sword and sandal movie, the harbinger of a new age of historical dramas where technology can fill in the blanks and keep costs reasonable.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it turned out to be a bland and uninspired piece of &#8220;good enough&#8221;, with too much fast editing in the arena, a boring Russell Crowe and a lot of characters with unclear motivations (some of which were apparently clarified in the DVD version.) As a movie fan, I can forgive violence to history. It&#8217;s harder to forgive unsatisfied expectations.<\/p>\n<p><em>Supreme Commander<\/em> is like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I went to see Gladiator many years ago, I was pretty hyped up for it. I didn&#8217;t expect an historically accurate movie, of course, and I was told it was a fun time with great special effects, strong acting and cinematography to die for. Plus Oliver Reed in his last great role. This was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[94,41],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-d1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}