{"id":13383,"date":"2011-03-25T06:00:23","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T13:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=13383"},"modified":"2017-08-04T12:12:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T19:12:14","slug":"weekend-movies-mar-25-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/weekend-movies-mar-25-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Movies: Now Would Be a Good Time to Follow Through on That Weekend Getaway"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are only two big movies opening this weekend, and not even any minor films worth searching out on the art house scene. This is truly a miserable week for new movies. But maybe you haven’t seen ‘Rango’ yet? Because ‘Rango’ is really, really good<\/a>. And it’s still in the theaters. So\u2026 you know\u2026<\/p>\n

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The biggest, loudest, most annoying movie opening this weekend is Zack Snyder’s nearly unwatchable ‘Sucker Punch<\/strong>‘. You can read my review<\/a> elsewhere on the site, but it’s an unrelenting misogynist trip through hell\u2026 if hell were a candy-colored videogame exclusively starring alt-porn pin-ups.<\/p>\n

The only other big movie is ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules<\/strong>‘, a sequel whose existence I only learned about earlier this week. I hadn’t seen the original ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid<\/a>‘, although I understand that it’s not a diary at all, but a motion picture. My assumption is that the second film is also a film and not, as the title would suggest, another diary. The first film (again: not a diary) made a boatload of cash, so they rushed the sequel into production and it’s landing about a year later, which is probably six months too late. But whatever, maybe kids will want to see it. Who knows? If they think it’s a diary, they’ll be sorely mistaken.<\/p>\n

On the indie side of things, there’s ‘Peep World<\/strong>‘, which sounds like some weird art installation in the Lower East Side, but is in fact a kind of comedic drama with Sarah Silverman. [Ed. Note: It’s not very good<\/a>. -JZ]<\/em><\/p>\n

Then there’s ‘Miral<\/strong>‘, the new film by obnoxious painter turned obnoxious filmmaker Julian Schnabel. It stars Freida Pinto, and played at the Venice and Hamptons Film Festivals last year without causing much of a stir. I imagine it’ll be pretty negligible and slide onto home video in a few weeks. Whoops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are only two big movies opening this weekend, and not even any minor films worth searching out on the art house scene. This is truly a miserable week for new movies. But maybe you haven’t seen ‘Rango’ yet? Because ‘Rango’ is really, really good. And it’s still in the theaters. So\u2026 you know\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[743],"tags":[2588,2629,2628,2627,1308,2527,134,1332],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13383"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13549,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13383\/revisions\/13549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}