{"id":1237,"date":"2009-08-21T15:43:08","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T21:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2009-12-28T15:44:07","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T21:44:07","slug":"a-perfect-getaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=1237","title":{"rendered":"A Perfect Getaway"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I had a fundamental misunderstanding about this movie that completely changed its makeup for me. Luckily, I would say the change was for the better.\u00a0A Perfect Getaway<\/a> chronicles the fates of three couples on vacation in Hawaii who, while hiking in the largely unpopulated wilds of Kauai, are constantly dogged by rumors of a man and woman who gruesomely murdered a pair of newlyweds in Honolulu just days before. So, what I thought I went to see was a horror movie, in which the couples face a gradually hopeless game of cat and mouse against the killers. Instead, the movie is a suspense thriller in which each couple suspects the next of being the harbinger of their doom.<\/span><\/p>\n

I think that\u2019s the most I can safely say, suspense thrillers being what they are. I will add that our main characters shine pretty brightly, Steve Zahn continuing his [largely successful] quest to transform a supporting actor\u2019s looks and general air into a leading actor\u2019s success using nothing but his talent, and Milla Jovovich successfully portraying a bubbly, vivacious, and merely moderately attractive leading actress with talent you would not suspect her knockout looks to be capable of. (If you found that sentence nauseating and impossible to get through: they were good!)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had a fundamental misunderstanding about this movie that completely changed its makeup for me. Luckily, I would say the change was for the better.\u00a0A Perfect Getaway chronicles the fates of three couples on vacation in Hawaii who, while hiking in the largely unpopulated wilds of Kauai, are constantly dogged by rumors of a man […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[505,506,507,508,509,510,511,512,513],"class_list":["post-1237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-gruesome-murders-of-newlyweds","tag-hawaii","tag-milla-jovovich","tag-steve-zahn","tag-suspense","tag-the-harbinger-of-their-doom","tag-the-largely-unpopulated-wilds-of-kauai","tag-three-couples-on-vacation","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237","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=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}