{"id":1630,"date":"2012-01-27T13:36:19","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T05:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/?p=1630"},"modified":"2013-11-25T17:41:27","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T09:41:27","slug":"change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2012\/01\/change\/","title":{"rendered":"Why LOTR Sucks: A Change For The Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because I always like to give credit where credit is due, I account it a wise move for Peter Jackson to move the beginning of The Two Towers to the first movie. It wouldn&#8217;t have done to end the movie with such a massive cliffhanger, and would have robbed it of a fitting climax. It works for the novels but would not work for the movies.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, even Brett Ratner could have gotten at least that much right.<\/p>\n<p>(A lot of close-ups of people and hobbits crying, but no slow motion.)<\/p>\n<p>Minutes Watched: 3:04.41<\/p>\n<p>Number of Montages: 7<\/p>\n<p>Number of slow motion close-ups of people crying: 21<\/p>\n<p>Start at the <a href=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2012\/01\/fun\/\">beginning<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because I always like to give credit where credit is due, I account it a wise move for Peter Jackson to move the beginning of The Two Towers to the first movie. It wouldn&#8217;t have done to end the movie with such a massive cliffhanger, and would have robbed it of a fitting climax. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1599,1728,1706,120,1712,1762,1796],"class_list":["post-1630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film_video","tag-brett-ratner","tag-fellowship-of-the-ring","tag-hobbits","tag-lord-of-the-rings","tag-peter-jackson","tag-slow-motion-close-up-of-someone-crying","tag-the-two-towers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2930,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions\/2930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}