{"id":537,"date":"2002-05-04T19:57:12","date_gmt":"2002-05-05T03:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/05\/04\/panic-room\/"},"modified":"2019-11-27T08:35:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T16:35:01","slug":"panic-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/05\/04\/panic-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Panic Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Name?Fincher,+David\" title=\"IMDB page for David Fincher\">David Fincher<\/a>&#8216;s (one of my favorite directors) latest film, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00006CXGF\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: 'Panic Room'\">Panic Room<\/a>, has been in the theaters for a few weeks now, and I just finally got around to seeing it today. Some fan, eh? Ah, well, life&#8217;s been a bit crazy lately.<\/p>\n<p>Not quite awake enough to make a full writeup, but in brief &#8212; entertaning, not bad for a matinee, but not nearly up to the level of his last few films (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00003W8NM\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: Fight Club\">Fight Club<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/6304795254\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: The Game\">The Game<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000050FEN\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: Se7en\">Se7en<\/a>). However, PR is a much more straightforward film than any of those three &#8212; a story of a mother (<a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Name?Foster,+Jodie\" title=\"IMDB page for Jodie Foster\">Jodie Foster<\/a>) and her daughter (<a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Name?Stewart,+Kristen\" title=\"IMDB page for Kristen Stewart\">Kristen Stewart<\/a>) trapped inside a &#8216;panic room&#8217; inside their new house by a small band of thieves trying to get to a fortune hidden inside the house. Fincher has his usual fun with the cinematography, and the cast all does well &#8212; there just wasn&#8217;t a lot to the story. Decent mindless escapism, however &#8212; worth a rent when it comes out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Fincher&#8217;s (one of my favorite directors) latest film, Panic Room, has been in the theaters for a few weeks now, and I just finally got around to seeing it today. Some fan, eh? Ah, well, life&#8217;s been a bit crazy lately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2037],"tags":[1464,23,2175,1820,2176],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}