{"id":1724,"date":"2011-12-06T13:42:18","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T18:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=1724"},"modified":"2011-12-13T12:57:48","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T17:57:48","slug":"movienight-thursday-december-8th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=1724","title":{"rendered":"Alien&#8230; older than half of our audience, and still wonderful!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1738\" href=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?attachment_id=1738\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1738\" title=\"Ground control to Major Ripley.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/alien.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/alien.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/alien-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Somewhat astoundingly, given that it is now thirty-two years old, <em>Alien<\/em> looked fresh as a daisy on our silver screen. The effects were impressive and believable even without the copious amounts of CGI we have come to accept. Sigourney Weaver is surely the queen of the sci-fi, having spanned the gap between this and Avatar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Speaking of which, do you think it&#8217;s time for MovieNight to go 3D, or should we keep it like it is? Is there anyone out there? Hello?!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More about this film on IMDb  <a title=\"IMDb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0078748\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-348\" title=\"imdb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/imdb.gif\" alt=\"imdb\" width=\"31\" height=\"15\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhat astoundingly, given that it is now thirty-two years old, Alien looked fresh as a daisy on our silver screen. The effects were impressive and believable even without the copious amounts of CGI we have come to accept. Sigourney Weaver is surely the queen of the sci-fi, having spanned the gap between this and Avatar. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=1724\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alien&#8230; older than half of our audience, and still wonderful!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1724"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1741,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions\/1741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}