{"id":345,"date":"2010-06-20T18:35:42","date_gmt":"2010-06-20T22:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=345"},"modified":"2010-06-20T18:35:42","modified_gmt":"2010-06-20T22:35:42","slug":"the-sf-movie-verdict-is-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=345","title":{"rendered":"The SF movie verdict is in."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The envelope please.\u00c2\u00a0 Every year I ask my students to vote on their favorite and least favorite items on the syllabus.\u00c2\u00a0 We watched the last of the films, and the somewhat surprising winner was <em>2001: A Space Odyssey.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 <\/em>The clear loser?\u00c2\u00a0 <em>T2.<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 So much for the conventional wisdom that these kids today require non-stop action and will reject Kubrick&#8217;s glacial pace like a bowl of cold oatmeal.\u00c2\u00a0 Second place went to <em>Sleep Dealer,<\/em> which pleased me.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a very smart film<em>.<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 <em>The Rocky Horror Picture Show<\/em> was beloved by fans, but as is often the case with fans, they weren&#8217;t eager to articulate the sources of their affection.\u00c2\u00a0 While <em>Body Snatchers<\/em> was nobody&#8217;s fave, it was still a success with most of the class.\u00c2\u00a0 I also just read their papers in which they review an sf film of their choosing.\u00c2\u00a0 A particularly good paper on <em>Repo Man<\/em> has me reconsidering that cult gem for the problematic 80&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The envelope please.\u00c2\u00a0 Every year I ask my students to vote on their favorite and least favorite items on the syllabus.\u00c2\u00a0 We watched the last of the films, and the somewhat surprising winner was 2001: A Space Odyssey.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The clear &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=345\">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":{"_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-345","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\/345","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=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}