{"id":70,"date":"2005-05-04T12:17:48","date_gmt":"2005-05-04T17:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGirl\/archives\/2005\/05\/02\/sahara\/"},"modified":"2005-05-04T12:18:43","modified_gmt":"2005-05-04T17:18:43","slug":"sahara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGrrrl\/archives\/2005\/05\/04\/sahara\/","title":{"rendered":"Sahara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trash.  Feels like an amalgam of several other movies cobbled together in the faint hope we won&#8217;t notice the joins.  They even rip off <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0105585\/\">Thunderheart<\/a>, one of my all time favourites.  Arghhhhhh!!!!  Matthew McConaughey has zero screen chemistry with Penelope Cruz and somehow gets lost in the scenery.  (Not what I expected from the man who blazed on the screen in <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0116905\/\">Lone Star<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0264616\/\">Frailty<\/a> and he wasn&#8217;t even the lead in those two movies!)<\/p>\n<p>Hokey plot without the compensation of stunning visuals or gasp inducing action set pieces.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Zahn rocks as the side kick yet again and saved this from being a wasted two hours!   Great African sounds but I could have done with much much more.<\/p>\n<p>As usual the bad guys and annoying characters were mainly played by Brits.  Sigh.   Can&#8217;t someone give them jobs as the good guys or the interesting side kick or, perhaps, shock horror, an interesting well drawn human being?  Ah, but then we&#8217;d need a decent script writer, and a producer who can see beyond national stereotypes, for that.<\/p>\n<p>Current temperature 63F\/17C<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trash. Feels like an amalgam of several other movies cobbled together in the faint hope we won&#8217;t notice the joins. They even rip off Thunderheart, one of my all time favourites. Arghhhhhh!!!! Matthew McConaughey has zero screen chemistry with Penelope &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGrrrl\/archives\/2005\/05\/04\/sahara\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4xZUC-sahara","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGrrrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGrrrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGrrrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGrrrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGrrrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGrrrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGrrrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGrrrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGrrrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}