{"id":3643,"date":"2009-05-07T06:33:06","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T22:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=3643"},"modified":"2009-05-07T06:33:06","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T22:33:06","slug":"showing-at-a-local-home-cinema-%e2%80%93-part-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/05\/07\/showing-at-a-local-home-cinema-%e2%80%93-part-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Showing at a local home cinema \u2013 Part 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"blog-superheromovie\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/blogsuperheromovie.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-superheromovie\" width=\"190\" height=\"271\" align=\"right\" \/> One of the nicest things about being on a DVD home rental subscription is that I get to loan as many film titles as I can possibly manage. So, as in my comment to our small group Ann to other day, I do watch everything \u2013 gems and junk alike.:)<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0426592\/\">Superhero Movie<\/a> (2008)<\/em>. There\u2019s been a string of spoof and parody movies in the last year or two. There was <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1213644\/\">Disaster Movie<\/a><\/em> for disasters and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1073498\/\">Meet the Spartans<\/a><\/em> for <em>300<\/em> for instance. There&#8217;s also lines of similarity between them: they\u2019re all low-budget and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carmen_electra\">Carmen Electra<\/a> \u2013 Hollywood sex bomb \u2013 shows up in every one of them LOL.<\/p>\n<p>Superhero spoofs superhero films, and <em>Spider-Man<\/em> in particular. Heck \u2013 the sequence of gags in the first half of the movie mirrors all the major story points of its more serious film brother. The opening monologue, Parker chasing the bus, finding it hard to get a seat etc. \u2013 it\u2019s all there. The first X-Men movie gets attention too \u2013 with the pick of the gag bunch a spoof of Xavier\u2019s Mutant School. And Bruce Wayne a.k.a. Batman\u2019s parents murder scene is a hoot!<\/p>\n<p>On the balance, the film has (marginally) more hits than misses in its gags though there\u2019s still that sizable number of utter groaners. So, worth a rental maybe \u2013 but you\u2019re not missing anything.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/star.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/star.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/star.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/blankstar.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/blankstar.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the nicest things about being on a DVD home rental subscription is that I get to loan as many film titles as I can possibly manage. So, as in my comment to our small group Ann to other<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/05\/07\/showing-at-a-local-home-cinema-%e2%80%93-part-12\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Showing at a local home cinema \u2013 Part 12<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-entertainment","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-10-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}