{"id":734,"date":"2007-06-05T22:21:26","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T22:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=734"},"modified":"2007-06-05T22:21:26","modified_gmt":"2007-06-05T22:21:26","slug":"he-was-quite-charming-wasnt-he","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=734","title":{"rendered":"He was quite charming, wasn&#8217;t he?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It must be just me, but I&#8217;ve just been to see <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.imdb.com\/title\/tt0449088\/\">Pirates of the Caribbean: At World&#8217;s End<\/a> and I just don&#8217;t get it. At the end of the film, I walked out with the same feeling of underwhelming as I did when I saw the first one. Maybe the hype had led me to expect too much.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, the special effects were impressive and the action scenes were imaginative and spectacular. However, the story line was remarkably one-dimensional, being rather predictable and clich\u00c3\u00a9d.<\/p>\n<p>Was I expecting too much from a film derived from an amusement park ride? Possibly. After all, the film was like a good fireworks display, continuously moving along. However, a good fireworks display doesn&#8217;t go on for almost three hours!<\/p>\n<p>A fun film, but don&#8217;t believe the hype.<\/p>\n<!-- <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/distinctionjacket.php\" title=\"Qvo oWemhp zVfM\">Qvo oWemhp zVfM<\/a> -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It must be just me, but I&#8217;ve just been to see Pirates of the Caribbean: At World&#8217;s End and I just don&#8217;t get it. At the end of the film, I walked out with the same feeling of underwhelming as I did when I saw the first one. Maybe the hype had led me to&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=734\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}