{"id":1376,"date":"2004-09-27T13:49:15","date_gmt":"2004-09-27T13:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1376.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:16","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:16","slug":"the-league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2004\/09\/27\/the-league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dreadful script, and the acting is hammier than a butcher&#8217;s shop.  The amount of editing that has been done to make Connery&#8217;s two major fight scenes seem at all realistic is <em>enormous<\/em>, and deserves special recognition.  The number of shots where you see him both throw and land a punch can be counted on one hand.  The rest of the time it&#8217;s all lunge, sound effect, and cut to a different angle.  I&#8217;ve tried hard to think of any redeeming features the film might have&#8230;and failed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dreadful script, and the acting is hammier than a butcher&#8217;s shop. The amount of editing that has been done to make Connery&#8217;s two major fight scenes seem at all realistic is enormous, and deserves special recognition. The number of shots where you see him both throw and land a punch can be counted on one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-1376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films_15_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}