{"id":8407,"date":"2014-03-07T16:19:01","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T22:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncobrief.com\/?p=8407"},"modified":"2014-03-07T16:19:01","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T22:19:01","slug":"a-simple-desultory-friday-afternoon-philippic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/archives\/a-simple-desultory-friday-afternoon-philippic\/","title":{"rendered":"A Simple Desultory Friday Afternoon Philippic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thinks about going to a movie this weekend; ah-ha! Liam Neeson has a movie which opened last week; a white-knuckle thriller about a US air marshal on board a hijacked airliner.<br \/>\nNot my cuppa, actually \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but Liam Neeson is one of the few actors around who can convincingly play an adult man doing a job \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 like an air marshal.<\/p>\n<p>*Does internet search for reviews of <em>Non-Stop<\/em>. Look, I work for a living. Do you think I want to waste $10 on something I might not get a good two hours of enjoyment out of?*<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/non-stop-criticized-for-portraying-9-11-family-member-veteran-as-terrorist\">Oh, dear<\/a>. Making the villain the survivor of someone murdered by Islamic terrorists on 9\/11, and a veteran, with a military member as a side-kick?<\/p>\n<p>Really?<\/p>\n<p>Look, if there had been a whole stream of movies from Hollywood since 9\/11 where survivors and military were the good guys, maybe I might be inclined to cut some slack for an unexpected plot twist. Alas, this is Hollywood, behaving in the movie manner which we have come to expect of them since 9\/11.<br \/>\nNo sale. I hereby put on my magic Cassandra hat and predict that <em>Non-Stop<\/em> will sink at fly-over country box offices as if it had a fifty-pound lead weight strapped to it and dumped over the Mariana Trench.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinks about going to a movie this weekend; ah-ha! Liam Neeson has a movie which opened last week; a white-knuckle thriller about a US air marshal on board a hijacked airliner. Not my cuppa, actually \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but Liam Neeson is one of the few actors around who can convincingly play an adult man doing a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,27],"tags":[169,472,170,473],"class_list":["post-8407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aint-that-america","category-media-matters-not","category-thats-entertainment","tag-hollywood","tag-liam-neeson","tag-movies","tag-non-stop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}