{"id":1133,"date":"2007-07-09T01:12:01","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T06:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/1133"},"modified":"2007-07-09T01:12:01","modified_gmt":"2007-07-09T06:12:01","slug":"1408","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/1133","title":{"rendered":"1408"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0450385\/\">1408<\/a>.  Great movie.  One of the best Stephen King adaptations; probably the best horror adaptation since Kubrick&#8217;s Shining.  It was a real tour de force for Cusack; although the director should have reined him in at a couple of points, I think that Cusack might be up for some acting awards for his performance.  At one point hub had full body goosebumps.  At another, I was a weepy mess.  Highly recommended.<\/p>\n<p>Although one quibble: what the hell is a movie in 2007 doing when it prominently displays a telephone number (1-LOW-FEE-1408) and then doesn&#8217;t have anything at that real-world number?  I don&#8217;t care much about the context of the number in the story &#8211; having it function for viewers to call in would have been cheap and a great experience-extender.  Are you listening to me, Stephen King?  I&#8217;ll extend your experience!  Call me!  Resume&#8217;s linked on the right sidebar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1408. Great movie. One of the best Stephen King adaptations; probably the best horror adaptation since Kubrick&#8217;s Shining. It was a real tour de force for Cusack; although the director should have reined him in at a couple of points, I think that Cusack might be up for some acting awards for his performance. At [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}