{"id":5245,"date":"2015-08-21T18:42:32","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T00:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=5245"},"modified":"2015-08-21T18:42:32","modified_gmt":"2015-08-22T00:42:32","slug":"hercules-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=5245","title":{"rendered":"Hercules (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/MV5BMTQ4ODA5MTA4OF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNjMyODM5MTE@._V1__SX1859_SY893_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5247\" src=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/MV5BMTQ4ODA5MTA4OF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNjMyODM5MTE@._V1__SX1859_SY893_-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"MV5BMTQ4ODA5MTA4OF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNjMyODM5MTE@._V1__SX1859_SY893_\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/MV5BMTQ4ODA5MTA4OF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNjMyODM5MTE@._V1__SX1859_SY893_-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/MV5BMTQ4ODA5MTA4OF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNjMyODM5MTE@._V1__SX1859_SY893_.jpg 603w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a>I saw <a title=\"Before he was a legend, he was a man.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1267297\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hercules<\/a> last week because it was in the 10% of shows on my Netflix queue that were neither horror nor serial. (Well, and because my girlfriend didn&#8217;t want to watch a horror movie.) I have resisted reviewing it until now because it was just so&#8230; bland.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I always like The Rock. And that guy from Deadwood,\u00a0Swearengen, who plays his seer sidekick, is a true delight. It&#8217;s just that the plot is&#8230; I can&#8217;t say bland again. Deconstructionist is not, per se, a negative. But this particular deconstruction took all of the literal and figurative magic out of the Hercules myth and turned it into not much more than a war story. Train the troops, fight the battles, and if I wanted a Greek war movie, I&#8217;d just watch <a title=\"Yet another movie that I watched right before the reviewing things phase of my life.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0332452\/\">Troy<\/a> again.<\/p>\n<p>It ended up better than I&#8217;m describing, but not enough better to be worth saying good things about. Or maybe the wait was too long? Either way: meh. You can do better, The Rock and Swearengen and people prospectively viewing this movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw Hercules last week because it was in the 10% of shows on my Netflix queue that were neither horror nor serial. (Well, and because my girlfriend didn&#8217;t want to watch a horror movie.) I have resisted reviewing it until now because it was just so&#8230; bland. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I always like [&hellip;]<\/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":[464,301,501],"class_list":["post-5245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-action","tag-historical-fantasy","tag-netflix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5245","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=5245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5248,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5245\/revisions\/5248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}