{"id":2291,"date":"2009-05-02T16:06:48","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T16:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2291"},"modified":"2009-05-02T16:06:48","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T16:06:48","slug":"indie_fare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2291","title":{"rendered":"Indie Fare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being the predictable geek that I am, I&#8217;m looking forward to the summer&#8217;s big science fiction movies such as the <i>Star Trek<\/i> reboot and the next <i>Terminator<\/i> sequel. But a couple promising trailers for smaller movies indicate that a market for original science fiction exists outside of franchise properties. <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/trailers\/sony_pictures\/district9\/\">District 9<\/a><\/i> is about humans and aliens struggling to co-exist on Earth, echoing earlier movies such as <i>Alien Nation<\/i>. It&#8217;s filmed in faux documentary style and set in South Africa, which could provide fertile territory for subtext. Or it could result in a movie with all the subtlety of a brick to the head. Color me intrigued. <\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/trailers\/sony\/moon\/\">Moon<\/a><\/i> looks to be a near-future tale about a solitary lunar miner who is nearing the end of his three-year contract and may or may not be going insane. It stars Sam Rockwell, an actor who embodies a sad yet goofy sensibility I&#8217;ve always liked. Fun fact: director Duncan Jones is David Bowie&#8217;s son.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=695\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being the predictable geek that I am, I&#8217;m looking forward to the summer&#8217;s big science fiction movies such as the Star Trek reboot and the next Terminator sequel. But a couple promising trailers for smaller movies indicate that a market for original science fiction exists outside of franchise properties. District 9 is about humans and <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2291' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-AX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}