{"id":4200,"date":"2015-06-05T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=4200"},"modified":"2015-06-03T15:23:43","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T20:23:43","slug":"movie-review-san-andreas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=4200","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: San Andreas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/decodingannieparkerfilm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/San-Andreas-Movie-Review-Rating.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes simplicity works. And that&#8217;s what this disaster movie was: simplicity itself. A geologist has been studying ways to predict earthquakes. Her prediction method works and &#8230; holy cow, the big one&#8217;s coming! Now she has to dodge multiple pre-shocks as she tries frantically to reach her step-daughter and save her. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it. That&#8217;s what the movie&#8217;s about. <\/p>\n<p>The tension here is pretty much nonstop. There&#8217;s a bit of interpersonal conflict going on, but it&#8217;s just enough to humanize the main characters as they fight to survive. <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no ridiculous scheme to stop the earth from shaking. There aren&#8217;t twenty points of view to keep track of. This is just pure, undiluted disaster movie. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been in the mood for this for a long time; I finally found it. <\/p>\n<p>My only quibble is that the ending was a bit abrupt. <\/p>\n<p>If you like disaster, try this one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes simplicity works. And that&#8217;s what this disaster movie was: simplicity itself. A geologist has been studying ways to predict earthquakes. Her prediction method works and &#8230; holy cow, the big one&#8217;s coming! Now she has to dodge multiple pre-shocks as she tries frantically to reach her step-daughter and save her. That&#8217;s it. That&#8217;s what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[498],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4201,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4200\/revisions\/4201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}