{"id":136880,"date":"2018-08-13T09:43:15","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T15:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/13\/movies-in-the-air.html"},"modified":"2018-09-05T19:20:28","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T01:20:28","slug":"movies-in-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/13\/movies-in-the-air.html","title":{"rendered":"Movies in the Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>International travel is a time when I get to actually catch up on movies that I missed or couldn&#8217;t bring myself to spend money on watching previously. At least that&#8217;s what I like to do after the inflight entertainment system reboots &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>On our Delta flights to \/ from Europe, here&#8217;s what I watched. (Scores are out of \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605; links are to longer reviews on Letterboxd)<\/p>\n<p><b><i>A Wrinkle in Time<\/i><\/b> (2018) \u2605\u2605\u00bd<br \/>\nGlitzy adaptation that falters the more it strays from the source book.<br \/>\n<a class=\"ot-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/a-wrinkle-in-time-2018\/\">https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/a-wrinkle-in-time-2018\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Inside Out<\/i><\/b> (2015) \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u00bd with a \u2665<br \/>\nA truly delightful Pixar psychocomedy that I&#8217;m kicking myself for not having seen before.<br \/>\n<a class=\"ot-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/inside-out-2015\/\">https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/inside-out-2015\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Batman and Harley Quinn<\/i><\/b> (2017) \u2605\u2605\u00bd<br \/>\nWhy <i>Batman: The Animated Series<\/i> needed the network to keep them from going down a self-indulgent rabbit hole, apparently.<br \/>\n<a class=\"ot-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/batman-and-harley-quinn\/\">https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/batman-and-harley-quinn\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Darkest Hour<\/i><\/b> (2017) \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 with a \u2665<br \/>\nRemarkable if sometimes uneven biopic about Churchill at the start of WW2.<br \/>\n<a class=\"ot-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/darkest-hour\/\">https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/darkest-hour\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Thor: Ragnarok<\/i><\/b> (2017) \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 with a \u2665<br \/>\nRewatch. Still funny. Still sometimes too funny for its own good.<br \/>\n<a class=\"ot-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/thor-ragnarok\/1\/\">https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/thor-ragnarok\/1\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><i>The Jungle Book<\/i><\/b> (2016) \u2605\u2605\u2605<br \/>\nI was far less charmed than most people, it seems.<br \/>\n<a class=\"ot-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/the-jungle-book-2016\/\">https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/the-jungle-book-2016\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Game Night<\/i><\/b> (2018) \u2605\u2605\u2605\u00bd with a \u2665<br \/>\nFar funnier than it ought to have been. Frothy fun.<br \/>\n<a class=\"ot-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/game-night\/\">https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/game-night\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Tomb Raider<\/i><\/b> (2018) \u2605\u2605\u2605\u00bd<br \/>\nRun, Lara, run! A good, if humorless and increasingly improbable, adventure.<br \/>\n<a class=\"ot-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/tomb-raider\/\">https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/tomb-raider\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6589231425617758641\/6589231427571175826\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-EJJ2iA9Ef5Y\/W3GnEnc4UZI\/AAAAAAAFg1o\/ryG3BoNIJto9hYoPuWS0evoQix6KaVorQCJoC\/IMG_20180728_170820.jpg?imgmax=660\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/Y4hLFjufH2i\">Original Post<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International travel is a time when I get to actually catch up on movies that I missed or couldn&#8217;t bring myself to spend money on watching previously. At least that&#8217;s what I like to do after the inflight entertainment system reboots &#8230; On our Delta flights to \/ from Europe, here&#8217;s what I watched. (Scores &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/13\/movies-in-the-air.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Movies in the Air&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,852,263,525,1693],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-dc-cinematic-univese","category-disney","category-marvel-cinematic-universe","category-travel-med-2018"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_20180728_170820.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49766,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/06\/father-daughter-movie-week-previous-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":136880,"position":0},"title":"Father-Daughter Movie Week (Previous Edition)","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 6-Mar-15 2:37pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I was sick while Margie was way last time, so I didn't get my reviews done.Who Framed Roger Rabbit? 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So here's what we watched, with links to my Letterboxd reviews.1984 (1984)\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Movie%2BTheater%2BAudience.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Movie%2BTheater%2BAudience.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Movie%2BTheater%2BAudience.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":51252,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/24\/movie-review-the-avengers-2012.html","url_meta":{"origin":136880,"position":3},"title":"Movie Review: &quot;The Avengers&quot; (2012)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 24-May-15 12:05pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Because after a day at the Denver Comic Con, what could be better?The most recent and previous reviews:http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/the-avengers-2012\/http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/the-avengers-2012\/1\/http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/the-avengers-2012\/2\/ A \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u00bd review of The Avengers (2012) What better way to celebrate the evening after a day at the Denver Comic Con than with one of the best super-hero team movies of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":51276,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/27\/movie-review-thor-2011-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":136880,"position":4},"title":"Movie Review: &quot;Thor&quot; (2011)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 27-May-15 9:25pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A rewatch with my (first-time watcher) mom last night. 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