{"id":1741,"date":"2012-02-05T16:29:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T08:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/?p=1741"},"modified":"2013-11-23T14:47:44","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T06:47:44","slug":"exposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2012\/02\/exposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Why LOTR Sucks: Exposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is where we really say the failing of Peter Jackson as a filmmaker. He relies far too much on exposition. Here we watch Pippin and Gandalf converse. They summarize the conflict up to this point. There is a voice over montage of Sauron&#8217;s gathering army. Gandalf introduces the Witch King, and explains how he can&#8217;t be killed. All of this is either unnecessary or would have been better introduced through the action, not this conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Minutes Watched: 3.0:55.44<\/p>\n<p>Number of Montages: 15<\/p>\n<p>Number of slow motion close-ups of people crying: 53<\/p>\n<p>Start at the <a href=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2012\/01\/fun\/\">beginning<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is where we really say the failing of Peter Jackson as a filmmaker. He relies far too much on exposition. Here we watch Pippin and Gandalf converse. They summarize the conflict up to this point. There is a voice over montage of Sauron&#8217;s gathering army. Gandalf introduces the Witch King, and explains how he [&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":[1707,120,1741,1712,1743,1842,1850],"class_list":["post-1741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film_video","tag-gandalf","tag-lord-of-the-rings","tag-peregrin-took","tag-peter-jackson","tag-sauron","tag-the-return-of-the-king","tag-witch-king"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741","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=1741"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2839,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions\/2839"}],"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=1741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}