{"id":7743,"date":"2015-07-25T11:53:06","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T18:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=7743"},"modified":"2015-07-25T11:53:06","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T18:53:06","slug":"super-terrible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/25\/super-terrible\/","title":{"rendered":"super terrible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/express\/wp\/2015\/07\/24\/im-not-letting-my-son-see-pixels-heres-why\/\">In addition to being brutally terrible, Pixels is also deeply misogynistic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d seen other commentary to that effect in reviews, but this article gives examples and reasons.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/solarbird.tumblr.com\/post\/124812348728\/yrbff-the-reviews-of-adam-sandlers-new-movie\">Enjoy some quotes from other reviews<\/a>. My favourite is, &#8220;an overwhelmingly sad experience&#8221; \u2013 Andrew O&#8217;Hehir, Salon.<\/p>\n<p><b>minor spoiler eta<\/b>: &#8220;So Pixels ends with the only likeable character and the only non-bullshit incarnation of its own premise <i>[Q*Bert]<\/i> blinking out of existence so that one of two vaguely prominent women characters in the entire cast can serve as a literal trophy. Holy fucking shit.&#8221; &#8212; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&#038;v=BFD2293oGvA\">MovieBob pulls no punches<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to being brutally terrible, Pixels is also deeply misogynistic. I&#8217;d seen other commentary to that effect in reviews, but this article gives examples and reasons. Enjoy some quotes from other reviews. My favourite is, &#8220;an overwhelmingly sad experience&#8221; \u2013 Andrew O&#8217;Hehir, Salon. minor spoiler eta: &#8220;So Pixels ends with the only likeable character [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-peoples-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}