{"id":1334,"date":"2015-09-28T03:07:38","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T10:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=1334"},"modified":"2015-09-28T03:07:38","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T10:07:38","slug":"emmerichs-latest-disaster-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2015\/09\/28\/emmerichs-latest-disaster-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Emmerich&#8217;s Latest Disaster Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a filmmaker tackles a big subject such as the Holocaust or World War II, they often do so through the eyes of a character the audience will identify with.\u00a0 <strong>Roland Emmerich <\/strong>has done that with <strong><em>Stonewall<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Like most people, lead actor <strong>Jeremy Irvine <\/strong>also cannot act.\u00a0 Nope, not even a little.\u00a0 But he is pretty (actually prettier and taller in person), and these days, that tends to suffice.\u00a0 He kinda strikes me as an aspiring porn actor who got lucky &#8211; well, I&#8217;m sure SOMEONE got lucky.\u00a0 But he was not nearly as pretty as the people who were at this premiere in WeHo.\u00a0 The really pretty ones were part of the lovely <strong>Bryan Singer<\/strong>&#8216;s posse, but let&#8217;s not go there.\u00a0 Back to the movie, the lead actor isn&#8217;t even the biggest problem.\u00a0 That honor is saved for the script, written by the usually serviceable <strong>Jon Robin Baitz<\/strong>, which is filled with more pitfalls and potholes than any street in Greenwich Village.\u00a0 What the film\u00a0DOES have going for it is the bravura, highly skilled performance of <strong>Jonny Beauchamp<\/strong>, who you may know from <strong><em>Penny Dreadful<\/em><\/strong> (where he has appeared naked, and you can see every inch of him on <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BillyMasters.com\">BillyMasters.com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">)<\/span>. \u00a0He&#8217;s so good that any time he is on-screen, the material is elevated to something almost resembling a movie.\u00a0 Alas, those moments are fleeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a filmmaker tackles a big subject such as the Holocaust or World War II, they often do so through the eyes of a character the audience will identify with.\u00a0 Roland Emmerich has done that with Stonewall.\u00a0 Like most people, lead actor Jeremy Irvine also cannot act.\u00a0 Nope, not even a little.\u00a0 But he is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1335,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions\/1335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}