{"id":72,"date":"2006-12-07T15:30:35","date_gmt":"2006-12-07T20:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moroha.net\/blog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2006-12-07T15:31:11","modified_gmt":"2006-12-07T20:31:11","slug":"instant-tom-cruise-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moroha.net\/blog\/archives\/72","title":{"rendered":"Instant Tom Cruise movie review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My cousin <a href=\"http:\/\/forpeterssake.wordpress.com\/\">Peter<\/a> made this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moroha.net\/blog\/?p=61#comment-3336\">comment<\/a> on my earlier post on the Conan movies.  My comment on Tom Cruise&#8217;s acting recalled this quote from a review of Minority Report:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While there are action elements, this is not an <em>action film<\/em>, per se, but rather a film about Tom Cruise in the future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I paraphrased this to apply to The Last Samurai: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While The Last Samurai does have historical elements, it is not a <em>historical epic<\/em> per se. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a movie about Tom Cruise in Meiji-era Japan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s when it hit me:  This can be applied to practically any Tom Cruise movie!  The formula is this:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While [movie starring Tom Cruise] does have [supposed genre of film] elements, this is not a <em>[supposed genre] film<\/em> per se.  It&#8217;s a movie about Tom Cruise in [place setting for movie].&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Footnote: The original review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themorningnews.org\/archives\/stories\/behind_the_scenes_the_minority_report_trailer.php\">here<\/a> is actually just a review for the trailer!  It somehow makes it even more hilarious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My cousin Peter made this comment on my earlier post on the Conan movies. My comment on Tom Cruise&#8217;s acting recalled this quote from a review of Minority Report: While there are action elements, this is not an action film, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moroha.net\/blog\/archives\/72\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moroha.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moroha.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moroha.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moroha.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moroha.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.moroha.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moroha.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moroha.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moroha.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}