{"id":1786,"date":"2011-11-12T23:18:52","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T07:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=1786"},"modified":"2011-11-12T23:18:52","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T07:18:52","slug":"tower-heist-the-aaugh-blog-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/tower-heist-the-aaugh-blog-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Tower Heist &#8211; the AAUGH Blog review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Folks in Peanuts circles were talking about the new film <strong>Tower Heist<\/strong> and how it has a Snoopy appearance (in Macy&#8217;s Parade balloon form); some of the talk made it sound like they did something interesting with it. I had otherwise been mixed about seeing this film (strong cast, but a director whose works I&#8217;ve disliked in the past, and unexciting promos), but I reckoned I had to see for myself, so I could report to my blog reading audience.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re thinking of seeing this for the Peanuts aspects, skip it. The use is fleeting, unimportant to the work, andin no way inspired; the entire Thanksgiving parade aspect is dreadfully underused.<\/p>\n<p>And if you&#8217;re thinking of seeing this for other reasons, I wouldn&#8217;t recommend it. There are a few good moments, and mostly good performances (interesting to see Eddie Murphy handle some things more in the style of his earlier work than what admittedly little I&#8217;ve seen of his more recent films), but the writing is flabby. The laugh lines are not quite as good as they ought to be. This is a heist film, and a good heist film lives and dies on the details and the internal logic (not the realism, necessarily; things can be fairly false so long as they rebuilt into the structure and make internal sense.) This one is sloppy; they clearly had their idea of what would make a &#8220;cool&#8221; climax, and tossed out logic in order to reach it. It wasn&#8217;t a horrible time spent in the theater, but there were certainly better films to see in the multiplex.<\/p>\n<p>A little Snoopy makes everything better, but this oen would&#8217;ve needed a whole lot of Snoopy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Folks in Peanuts circles were talking about the new film Tower Heist and how it has a Snoopy appearance (in Macy&#8217;s Parade balloon form); some of the talk made it sound like they did something interesting with it. I had otherwise been mixed about seeing this film (strong cast, but &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}