{"id":16,"date":"2003-12-31T13:14:31","date_gmt":"2003-12-31T17:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/electra\/wordpress\/?p=16"},"modified":"2005-10-28T11:14:24","modified_gmt":"2005-10-28T15:14:24","slug":"gothika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2003\/12\/31\/gothika\/","title":{"rendered":"Gothika"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Based on the ads, I went into this thinking I had the story figured out. But I was wrong, and enjoyed the movie a lot more because of it.<\/p>\n<p>Halle Berry? There&#8217;s nothing bad anyone can say about her except that her ex husband is a moron for being Mr. Ex- Halle Berry. She&#8217;s a great actress. Her performance really makes me wish her agent got her more challenging parts, because she is capable of a lot more than being Storm in X-men.<\/p>\n<p>She comes across as believable psychiatric professional who is concerned about her patients. The best adjective I can think of for her in this film is empathetic. That&#8217;s why she is so believable, she can empathize with her characters, and her co stars, like Penelope Cruz, and it comes across on the screen.<\/p>\n<p>Penelope had a great handle on the creepy secret lurking in the psych ward.<\/p>\n<p>The dialogue was good, there were hearty doses of memorable lines, and the premise and story was sound. A few moments could have been milked for additional suspense, but it was a very good outing for everyone involved.<\/p>\n<p>I liked Gothika. It&#8217;s worth a DVD purchase if you didn&#8217;t catch it in the theaters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on the ads, I went into this thinking I had the story figured out. But I was wrong, and enjoyed the movie a lot more because of it. Halle Berry? There&#8217;s nothing bad anyone can say about her except that her ex husband is a moron for being Mr. Ex- Halle Berry. She&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}