{"id":49833,"date":"2015-03-13T11:56:08","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T17:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/13\/movie-review-crack-in-the-world-1965.html"},"modified":"2015-05-11T08:31:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T14:31:18","slug":"movie-review-crack-in-the-world-1965","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/13\/movie-review-crack-in-the-world-1965.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: &quot;Crack in the World&quot; (1965)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#39;s a disaster movie only nostalgia could love, though it does have its moments. In many ways, it feels like a &lt;i&gt;Thunderbirds&lt;\/i&gt; movie without actually have International Rescue or its cool vehicles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/crack-in-the-world'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/1w9YhaLQPZzQy5L7a3f9u-yhOPDJwM3dIDfv7LhZR-E9_FOZmAer75F0sl0zOKC6aGJBJLZkMIHVJFMqGBopnWRziTeZbVy1L5IMsnEpsnJhoLSwBIk4I3vjID88UYjLTZMaAN9V3jF0ihzwvfep1vki-_wRF6PhWY8X=w120-h120' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/crack-in-the-world'>A &#9733;&#9733; review of Crack in the World (1965)<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThis is one of my guilty Saturday afternoon movie-watching pleasures from as far back as I can remember. It&#8217;s a hot mess (and not just from the lava) of a disaster film with an odd mish-mosh of zero-chemistry talent, bad science, and a budget that feels substantial in some directions (some nice set and miniature work) and remarkably meager in others (we can show stock footage of stampeding animals, but the reaction of the world&#8217;s population to th&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/6FH8GfvpJH1'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#39;s a disaster movie only nostalgia could love, though it does have its moments. In many ways, it feels like a &lt;i&gt;Thunderbirds&lt;\/i&gt; movie without actually have International Rescue or its cool vehicles. A &#9733;&#9733; review of Crack in the World (1965) This is one of my guilty Saturday afternoon movie-watching pleasures from as far back &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/13\/movie-review-crack-in-the-world-1965.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Movie Review: &quot;Crack in the World&quot; (1965)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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":[106,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49916,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/22\/movie-review-the-battle-of-the-bulge-1965.html","url_meta":{"origin":49833,"position":0},"title":"Movie Review: &quot;The Battle of the Bulge&quot; (1965)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 22-Mar-15 12:27pm","format":false,"excerpt":"An old favorite from a bygone era of war movies. 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