{"id":108,"date":"2005-10-07T20:50:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-08T03:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/replicatedmeat.nocturne.org\/wordpress\/?p=108"},"modified":"2013-11-28T01:13:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T07:13:17","slug":"magnificent-desolation-walking-on-the-moon-3d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=108","title":{"rendered":"Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was supposed to be disc golf day, but then Eric&#8217;s kid was sick and the weather was drizzly. Not to worry, we found a kid-watcher and the weather turned into a downright beautiful 60s extravaganza, so that part worked out okay, except for where I played really badly. But that&#8217;s not the point. The point is how, in the meantime, we headed off to the IMAX to see the Tom Hanks produced <a title=\"Only 12 Have Walked On The moon. This Fall, You're Next! \" href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0401623\/\" target=\"_blank\">Magnificent Desolation<\/a>, which is all about taking a bunch of astronaut quotes and voicing them with famous actors (including, obviously, Morgan Freeman) while Tom Hanks narrates and the astronauts keep kicking moon dust <strong>right in your face<\/strong>!!!<\/p>\n<p>No, seriously, it&#8217;s pretty cool. Lots of magnificent, if desolate, scenery to gaze upon. Plenty of 3D, even if a lot of it was screen with data superimposed over the moonscape. A sidebar on how the landings themselves were faked. An examination of how they might have dealt with an emergency situation if they had one. (They did not; everything was pretty much blowjobs and funnel cakes.) Glimpses of the future. But mostly, people walking around on the moon in 3D. Let&#8217;s face it. If you go for that at all, the visuals with a completely silent soundtrack would have been sufficient to cover the price of admission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was supposed to be disc golf day, but then Eric&#8217;s kid was sick and the weather was drizzly. Not to worry, we found a kid-watcher and the weather turned into a downright beautiful 60s extravaganza, so that part worked out okay, except for where I played really badly. But that&#8217;s not the point. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[169,1109,1110,373,1257,1111,986,1112,1113,1114],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-3d","tag-a-bunch-of-astronaut-quotes","tag-blowjobs-and-funnel-cakes","tag-documentary","tag-imax","tag-magnificent-if-desolate-scenery","tag-morgan-freeman","tag-people-walking-around-on-the-moon-in-3d","tag-the-astronauts-keep-kicking-moon-dust","tag-tom-hanks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}