{"id":195,"date":"2011-04-17T12:58:52","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T16:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/45.79.82.122\/blogs\/natterings\/?p=195"},"modified":"2013-10-06T20:05:58","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T00:05:58","slug":"monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/natterings.com\/?p=195","title":{"rendered":"Monsters"},"content":{"rendered":"

What a great movie. Gareth Edwards put together this science-fiction-travel-romance-tragedy on a relatively small budget, but the cash went to all the right places.<\/p>\n

Creature effects are rare, but captivating — and eerily beautiful, in a few pivotal scenes.\u00a0 The plot involves an initially antagonistic North American man and woman who are attempting to get out of alien-infected Mexico and back to the United States.\u00a0 As is pretty much the case with any film based on getting from point A to point B, their plans to make it home in comfort and safety go out the window almost immediately.\u00a0 Parallels between the human characters and their alien counterparts are low-key, but poignant.<\/p>\n

This isn’t<\/em> an alien-invasion action film. Instead, “Monsters” is a quiet and mournful tragedy about fleeting connections and people (and creatures) far out of their element.<\/p>\n

It’s currently available on Netflix streaming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What a great movie. Gareth Edwards put together this science-fiction-travel-romance-tragedy on a relatively small budget, but the cash went to all the right places. Creature effects are rare, but captivating — and eerily beautiful, in a few pivotal scenes.\u00a0 The plot involves an initially antagonistic North American man and woman who are attempting to get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/natterings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/natterings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/natterings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natterings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natterings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/natterings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215,"href":"https:\/\/natterings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/natterings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natterings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natterings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}