{"id":36,"date":"2013-03-03T04:49:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-03T10:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.postmoderntrashaeology.thezombified.com\/?p=36"},"modified":"2013-03-03T04:56:18","modified_gmt":"2013-03-03T10:56:18","slug":"the-annual-runnin-of-the-egos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.postmoderntrashaeology.thezombified.com\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"The Annual Runnin&#8217; of the Egos&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A week ago was the latest episode of America&#8217;s favorite popularity contest the Academy Awards, in which a bunch of people in the motion picture industry celebrate themselves and their fellow members of the motion picture industry by dressing up in clothes that cost more than my car and giving each other awards.<\/p>\n<p>This year I actually saw 2 of the movies nominated for best picture, and here&#8217;s some brief thoughts on them:<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><em>Django Unchained\u00a0<\/em>was basically Quentin Tarantino&#8217;s version of\u00a0<em>Blazing Saddles<\/em>, and as such was quite entertaining. \u00a0I suppose it wasn&#8217;t quite as ridiculous and slapsticky as\u00a0<em>Blazing Saddles<\/em>, but it was close. \u00a0Leonardo DiCaprio does a decent Vincent Price impersonation as the main bad guy, and Samuel L. Jackson is quite entertaining as his soulless weasel lackey. \u00a0James Remar gets killed twice! (how un-<em>Warrior<\/em>like) and Tom Savini has a small cameo. \u00a0The original Django (Franco Nero) also contributes a substantial scene&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postmoderntrashaeology.thezombified.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/ogdjango.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37\" alt=\"ogdjango\" src=\"http:\/\/www.postmoderntrashaeology.thezombified.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/ogdjango.jpg\" width=\"299\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The other one I saw was\u00a0<em>Silver Linings Playbook<\/em>, in which charming and attractive people with quirky mental health issues and seemingly no realistic or financial problems experience love, triumphs, and wacky hi-jinx with no real repercussions. \u00a0It was entertaining if you can sit back and not think much about it- just let it flow over you like air conditioning.<\/p>\n<p>My fav movie of last year was of course\u00a0<em>Cabin In the Woods <\/em>(tho\u00a0anyone who likes horror movies already knows about that one, so no need to carry on about it), but there were a lot of awesome productions that came out last year- more than usually do.. \u00a0The slick and soulless movies that come out in increasingly larger amounts every year haven&#8217;t completely taken over yet. \u00a0And that&#8217;s a good thing.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_38\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postmoderntrashaeology.thezombified.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Django-Unchained-Quentin-Tarantino.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38\" alt=\"&quot;Flock to me my pretties... yes... yes!&quot;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.postmoderntrashaeology.thezombified.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Django-Unchained-Quentin-Tarantino-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.postmoderntrashaeology.thezombified.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Django-Unchained-Quentin-Tarantino-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.postmoderntrashaeology.thezombified.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Django-Unchained-Quentin-Tarantino.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-38\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Flock to me my pretties&#8230; yes&#8230; yes!&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week ago was the latest episode of America&#8217;s favorite popularity contest the Academy Awards, in which a bunch of people in the motion picture industry celebrate themselves and their fellow members of the motion picture industry by dressing up &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postmoderntrashaeology.thezombified.com\/?p=36\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.postmoderntrashaeology.thezombified.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.postmoderntrashaeology.thezombified.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.postmoderntrashaeology.thezombified.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.postmoderntrashaeology.thezombified.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.postmoderntrashaeology.thezombified.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.postmoderntrashaeology.thezombified.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"http:\/\/www.postmoderntrashaeology.thezombified.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.postmoderntrashaeology.thezombified.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.postmoderntrashaeology.thezombified.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.postmoderntrashaeology.thezombified.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}