{"id":553,"date":"2015-12-29T08:38:24","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T08:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/?p=553"},"modified":"2016-03-28T20:38:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T20:38:20","slug":"no-spoilers-awaken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/2015\/12\/29\/no-spoilers-awaken\/","title":{"rendered":"No Spoilers Awaken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we just saw The Force Awakens, and it was really good.  I think I can say &#8216;great&#8217;, possibly the best of all of them.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve promised no spoilers for this review, so I&#8217;ll be focusing on other aspects.<\/p>\n<p>First, the music was seamless and brilliant.  It carried the mood superbly, through all of the lonely scenes, the poignant scenes, the battle scenes that Star Wars is known for.<\/p>\n<p>Second, the movie felt really tight.  It was paced well, it felt like it moved all the way through, that all the scenes needed to be there.<\/p>\n<p>There were many sendups, but they weren&#8217;t jarring, they felt natural to the characters saying them (like the conversations about aging in The Undiscovered Country).<\/p>\n<p>It felt very true to the feel of the Star Wars universe, while at the same time, being a great movie.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I feel like Harrison Ford was much better, like he&#8217;s grown into himself.<\/p>\n<p>In short, go see this film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we just saw The Force Awakens, and it was really good. I think I can say &#8216;great&#8217;, possibly the best of all of them. I&#8217;ve promised no spoilers for this review, so I&#8217;ll be focusing on other aspects. First, the music was seamless and brilliant. It carried the mood superbly, through all of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/2015\/12\/29\/no-spoilers-awaken\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No Spoilers Awaken<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions\/560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}