{"id":788,"date":"2011-02-11T18:57:07","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T01:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/?p=788"},"modified":"2011-02-11T19:16:33","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T02:16:33","slug":"the-adjustment-bureau-pre-release-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/?p=788","title":{"rendered":"The Adjustment Bureau, pre-release review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/the_adjustment_bureau_wide-560x270.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/the_adjustment_bureau_wide-560x270.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"the_adjustment_bureau_wide-560x270\" width=\"353\" height=\"100\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-793\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/the_adjustment_bureau_wide-560x270.jpg 353w, https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/the_adjustment_bureau_wide-560x270-300x84.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 353px) 100vw, 353px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThere has been a lot of talk about Matt Damon&#8217;s upcoming new SF film (from a Philip K. Dick story), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theadjustmentbureau.com\/\">The Adjustment Bureau<\/a>. Personally I love some of Damon&#8217;s films; those films of his that are dark or tell the story of a truly tortured soul. Damon excels at roles like that, but he occasionally takes lighter roles that suck. This one, to me, looks like it will suck quite deeply and strongly, a la Hoover. I watched those clips on the <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/#!5758200\/7-clips-from-the-adjustment-bureau-explain-how-these-sharp+dressed-men-control-your-life\/gallery\/8 \">iO9<\/a> website, and asked myself &#8220;who cares&#8221; before I got half way through them. I doubt I&#8217;ll even see this one with my chick. Also, what&#8217;s with all the fedoras?<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/fedora.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/fedora.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"fedora\" width=\"279\" height=\"181\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-796\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/fedora-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/fedora-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"fedora 2\" width=\"303\" height=\"166\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-797\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/fedora-2.jpeg 303w, https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/fedora-2-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 303px) 100vw, 303px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis is the worst makeup job I have ever seen.  What was Damon thinking?  \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/makeup.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/makeup.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"makeup\" width=\"286\" height=\"176\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-798\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a lot of talk about Matt Damon&#8217;s upcoming new SF film (from a Philip K. Dick story), The Adjustment Bureau. Personally I love some of Damon&#8217;s films; those films of his that are dark or tell the story of a truly tortured soul. Damon excels at roles like that, but he occasionally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":800,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions\/800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}