{"id":344,"date":"2010-06-09T04:32:49","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T08:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=344"},"modified":"2010-06-09T04:33:32","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T08:33:32","slug":"the-70s-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=344","title":{"rendered":"The 70’s and beyond…"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seemed like such a good idea\u00e2\u20ac\u201dto include the most watched sf movie ever made\u00e2\u20ac\u201dThe Rocky Horror Picture Show<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbut I discovered that watching a movie in an inebriated state, throwing food, and shouting ritual responses are poor preparation for any critical appreciation of a film.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s become inseparable from its ritual.\u00c2\u00a0 There was a small but quiet group of loyalists, but for the most part, the movie tanked.\u00c2\u00a0 I identified with Eddie.\u00c2\u00a0 Looks like its back to Alien<\/em> next year.\u00c2\u00a0 The Forever War<\/em>, however, was successful once again.\u00c2\u00a0 This is an excellent class, their papers were quite good, and they’re not afraid to talk and disagree.\u00c2\u00a0 We screen T2 today, and who doesn’t like the Governator?\u00c2\u00a0 My classroom is next to the stairwell, so the noise doesn’t carry fortunately.\u00c2\u00a0 We can blow shit up to our heart’s content.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m showing the superior theatrical cut.\u00c2\u00a0 Cameron’s restored scenes in DVD release are mostly plot-bloating cheese, especially the dopey ghost-of-Kyle scene in the mental hospital.\u00c2\u00a0 Then on to Snow Crash<\/em>, a book that’s growing on me, especially the incisive descriptions of the burbscape.\u00c2\u00a0 I do wish Neal Stephenson would follow Mi\u00c3\u00a9ville’s fine example and write something of a teachable length!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seemed like such a good idea\u00e2\u20ac\u201dto include the most watched sf movie ever made\u00e2\u20ac\u201dThe Rocky Horror Picture Show\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbut I discovered that watching a movie in an inebriated state, throwing food, and shouting ritual responses are poor preparation for any … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}