{"id":686,"date":"2021-05-04T13:20:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T11:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/?p=686"},"modified":"2021-05-04T13:20:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T11:20:16","slug":"radishflix-2021-highlights-of-kw17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/04\/radishflix-2021-highlights-of-kw17\/","title":{"rendered":"RadishFlix 2021: Highlights of KW17"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>And a Happy May the Fourth to those who celebrate it; personally I resent the commercialization&#8230;heh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have also been spending a lot of time checking in on the volcanos in Iceland about 15 times a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Live Feed! Iceland Volcano Eruption near Reykjavik\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3mS2kM6NT3Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0120685\/?ref_=ttls_li_tt\">Godzilla<\/a>&nbsp;(1998)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Library DVD, original English<\/em><br>Decent popcorn flick despite cloying romance subplot, but whatever that supple and malevolent velociraptor was (too much of the plot was borrowed from <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JJHPuqTfm_g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jurassic Park<\/a><\/em>), it was no Gojira.  The original Toho lizard does not hunt down specific humans&#8211;he doesn&#8217;t even *notice* humans, very much like we don&#8217;t notice ants streaming when we&#8217;re driving to work. He just stomps around going about his business; if your hospital is in the way of his tail, bad luck for you but it&#8217;s nothing personal. Also&#8211;and this is very important&#8211;he stomps. He does not leap, sprint, or dance.<br><br>Sigh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0831387\/?ref_=ttls_li_tt\">Godzilla<\/a>&nbsp;(2014)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Netflix, original English<\/em><br>Now this was my Gojira.<br><br>Funny how suspension of disbelief works, isn&#8217;t it? I can completely accept that an fire-breathing lizard the size of an aircraft carrier will emerge from the ocean to save the Earth from radiation-eating mutant mosquitos. But I cannot believe that the Golden Gate Bridge, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2012\/05\/23\/the-day-the-golden-gate-bridge-flattened\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">which nearly failed under the weight of pedestrians in the 1980s<\/a>, was just fine after being loaded up with tanks.  Sorry.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2287675\/?ref_=ttls_li_tt\">Cockpit<\/a>&nbsp;(2012)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Netflix, Swedish with English subtitles<\/em><br>In the opening scene, a mob of journalists chases a man wearing a dress through the city before finally trapping him on the roof of a parking garage.  Heh.<br><br>The film was fairly predictable and generally disbelief unsuspensionable, but most of the jokes landed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the highest brow of entertainment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-radishflix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":706,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions\/706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}