{"id":26205,"date":"2010-03-10T09:52:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T13:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=26205"},"modified":"2020-06-18T09:52:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T13:52:27","slug":"the-crazies-in-brief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=26205","title":{"rendered":"The Crazies, in brief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-26206 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/thecrazies.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/thecrazies.jpg 490w, http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/thecrazies-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just a few days ago, I watched\u00a0<em>The Crazies.<\/em>\u00a0And compared to\u00a0<em>Shutter Island\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Alice in Wonderland<\/em>, I liked this movie the best.\u00a0 Sometimes, I just like simple, and that&#8217;s exactly what The Crazies was &#8211; simple. Not a blockbuster, or something with a crazy and thought-provoking plot. \u00a0 The previews, the plot, and the execution, there was hardly anything to think about.\u00a0 Simple, survival, horror.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It also helped the fact that I was so graciously allowed to actually redeem a free movie ticket I had earned throughout the last few months, so I paid absolutely nothing to enjoy a good thriller.<\/p>\n<p>I like Timothy Olyphant, and it&#8217;s admittedly a little strange to see him portraying a morally strong, face-type, instead of the arrogant, yet dangerously intelligent heel-type he seems to always portray in everything else he does.<\/p>\n<p>Radha Mitchell, I think most people would remember her if at all, as the mom from the\u00a0<em>Silent Hill\u00a0<\/em>film rendition, but only dweebs like me remembers cast names in a flick where a chick gets ripped from the inside-out from rusty barb wires going up into her cooter.\u00a0 She plays the sheriff&#8217;s wife, who is precariously hot-bodied despite being like, two seconds pregnant.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s really about it.\u00a0 Small, corn-fed Iowa town gets infected with a mystery disease that makes people go insane, and a small band of survivors try to get out of dodge before the shit hits the fan.\u00a0 Simple, yet not at all bad.\u00a0 To emphasize how much I enjoyed the flick, one of these days it&#8217;ll be on one of the four Cinemax channels.\u00a0 If I were to run into\u00a0<em>The Crazies<\/em>\u00a0on Cinemax, I&#8217;m definitely holding the channel.\u00a0 Unless\u00a0<em>Forrest Gump<\/em>\u00a0is on another Cinemax channel.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few days ago, I watched\u00a0The Crazies.\u00a0And compared to\u00a0Shutter Island\u00a0and\u00a0Alice in Wonderland, I liked this movie the best.\u00a0 Sometimes, I just like simple, and that&#8217;s exactly what The Crazies was &#8211; simple. Not a blockbuster, or something with a crazy and thought-provoking plot. \u00a0 The previews, the plot, and the execution, there was hardly &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=26205\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Crazies, in brief<\/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":[1],"tags":[41,15],"class_list":["post-26205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-movies","tag-og"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26207,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26205\/revisions\/26207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}