{"id":3055,"date":"2013-12-28T13:15:48","date_gmt":"2013-12-28T05:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/?p=3055"},"modified":"2013-12-28T13:15:48","modified_gmt":"2013-12-28T05:15:48","slug":"happening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2013\/12\/happening\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is Happening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/The-Hobbit-An-Unexpected-Journey-Wallpaper-04-750x468.jpg\" alt=\"The-Hobbit-An-Unexpected-Journey-Wallpaper-04-750x468\" width=\"750\" height=\"468\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3056\" srcset=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/The-Hobbit-An-Unexpected-Journey-Wallpaper-04-750x468.jpg 750w, http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/The-Hobbit-An-Unexpected-Journey-Wallpaper-04-750x468-580x361.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One time, I was foolish enough to do a live blog of my rewatch of the entire Lord of the Rings film trilogy. I nearly died.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s taken me several years to work up the courage to do it again. But with the second Hobbit movie in theaters, I figured if I was ever going to do this, now was the time. So here goes.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to follow along on Twitter, use the hashtag #hobbitrewatch. You&#8217;ll get to enjoy a lot of my <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/doctorentropy2\" target=\"_blank\">twitter venting<\/a> as I suffer through this inane project. But somebody has to do it, right?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the deal: I hated the LOTR trilogy, and I spent many, many hours <a href=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2012\/01\/fun\/\" target=\"_blank\">detailing exactly what was wrong<\/a> with those films and why they sucked balls. I will be doing the same thing with the first Hobbit movie. This is not a matter of opinion. Nor will I be comparing the movie to the book. This is entirely about judging the movie objectively on its own merits. How does it work as a film, and how does it fail? And what in the name of all that is holy in this world was Peter Jackson thinking with that damned rabbit sled???<\/p>\n<p>If I recall correctly, PJ learned from the trilogy and there were very few, if any, slow motion closeups of people crying in this film. But I have a feeling there were still plenty of montages. So I&#8217;m not sure exactly what I&#8217;ll be keeping score of this time. But that&#8217;s part of the fun of the journey, right? The unexpected.<\/p>\n<p>Here goes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One time, I was foolish enough to do a live blog of my rewatch of the entire Lord of the Rings film trilogy. I nearly died. It&#8217;s taken me several years to work up the courage to do it again. But with the second Hobbit movie in theaters, I figured if I was ever going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2108,120,2644,1724,1712,2646,1762,1232,2645,1684],"class_list":["post-3055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film_video","tag-curses","tag-lord-of-the-rings","tag-lotr","tag-montage","tag-peter-jackson","tag-rabbit-sled","tag-slow-motion-close-up-of-someone-crying","tag-the-hobbit","tag-the-hobbit-an-unexpected-journey","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3057,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions\/3057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}