{"id":5104,"date":"2009-08-14T13:29:56","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T20:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/?p=5104"},"modified":"2009-11-11T22:28:07","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T05:28:07","slug":"a-big-guy-turns-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/a-big-guy-turns-10\/","title":{"rendered":"A Big Guy Turns 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5105\" title=\"iron_giant\" src=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/iron_giant.jpg\" alt=\"iron_giant\" width=\"431\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/iron_giant.jpg 431w, http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/iron_giant-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 431px) 100vw, 431px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I saw this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/underwire\/2009\/08\/a-decade-later-the-iron-giants-weaponized-soul-still-stirs\/\">article<\/a> about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0129167\/\">The Iron Giant <\/a>turning ten years old the other day. This is one of my favorite movies, and the article goes a long way towards explaining why. (It also does a good job of explaining why summer blockbusters suck these days, and has a totally unneccessary reference to local starlet Megan Fox&#8217;s breasts.) Believe it or not, both Jennifer Anniston and Vin Diesel turn in riveting vocal performances in this film. The idea of a government agent whose raging paranoia leads him to lie and usurp authority is as scary now as its ever been, and the idea of an alien robot inspired by Siegel &amp; Shuster&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Superman\">Superman<\/a> puts the lie to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mail-archive.com\/rehfans@xenite.org\/msg00017.html\">H.R. Hayes&#8217; 1946 rant <\/a>in the most powerful way possible. I don&#8217;t often crank up the old VCR but in this case I made an exception. If you don&#8217;t know this movie I really encourage you to click on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/underwire\/2009\/08\/a-decade-later-the-iron-giants-weaponized-soul-still-stirs\/\">well-done article<\/a>, it even has an excerpt from the film.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DEUCE ADDS<\/strong>: Follow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irongiantproject.blogspot.com\/\">this link<\/a> to the Iron Giant Project blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this article about The Iron Giant turning ten years old the other day. This is one of my favorite movies, and the article goes a long way towards explaining why. (It also does a good job of explaining why summer blockbusters suck these days, and has a totally unneccessary reference to local starlet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5104"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7210,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5104\/revisions\/7210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}