{"id":1497,"date":"2004-12-22T13:58:01","date_gmt":"2004-12-22T13:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1497.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:15","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:15","slug":"a-series-of-unfortunate-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2004\/12\/22\/a-series-of-unfortunate-events\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>A Series of Unfortunate Events<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps it&#8217;s because the film represents the first three books in a much longer series, but <i>A Series Of Unfortunate Events<\/i> comes across as just that:  a series of events, each with their own structure and climax, but little in the way of an overall story arc or plot.  The underlying mystery is only hinted at&#8211;X-Files style&#8211;but not explored in any depth; that will be the task of subsequent films.  It will probably leave fans of the books hungry for more in the future, but I wanted more out of this one <em>now<\/em>.  <\/p>\n<p>For a film that desperately wants you to think of it as &#8220;dark&#8221;, there is too much surface spectacle, and not enough sense of the complexity and depth of the world in which the story takes place.  It&#8217;s certainly very pretty, and Jim Carrey makes for a wonderful half sinister, half clownish, <em>almost<\/em> competent villain, but the fantasy never becomes real, if you see what I mean.<\/p>\n<p>(If you do go to see it, make sure you stay for the fantastic, Tim Burton-eqsue end credits.  It&#8217;s one of the best sequences I&#8217;ve seen in a long time.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps it&#8217;s because the film represents the first three books in a much longer series, but A Series Of Unfortunate Events comes across as just that: a series of events, each with their own structure and climax, but little in the way of an overall story arc or plot. The underlying mystery is only hinted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-1497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films_25_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497","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=1497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}