{"id":2315,"date":"2009-01-30T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T14:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=2315"},"modified":"2009-01-30T09:01:04","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T14:01:04","slug":"animal-instincts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=2315","title":{"rendered":"Animal Instincts."},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/trailers\/fox\/wolverine\/\"  target=\"_blank\" title=\"The birth of Wolverine\"><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/screen18.jpg\" title=\"The birth of Wolverine\" alt=\"The birth of Wolverine\" align=\"middle\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>The birth of Wolverine: Hugh Jackman in <\/em>X-Men Origins: Wolverine<\/p>\n<p>I went to see <em>Notorious<\/em> on Wednesday\u2014an <em>a&#8217;ight<\/em> film about the astounding Biggie Smalls\u2014before <a href=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=2307\"  target=\"_blank\">my panel at the Brecht Forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During the previews, they ran the trailer for <a href=\"http:\/\/movies.apple.com\/movies\/fox\/wolverine\/wolverine-tlra_480p.mov\"  target=\"_blank\"><em>X-Men Origins: Wolverine<\/em><\/a>, above, out May 1st.<\/p>\n<p>Now, blogs work by connecting readers to content on the web, much as I&#8217;ve prospectively done by linking the name of this film to a 480p QuickTime file of its trailer. We do this in order to inform our audiences, and build traffic for our sites.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;m going against all standard blogging protocol when I say the following: <em>Please do not click on that link<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, find a theater where they&#8217;re showing the trailer for <em><em>X-Men Origins: Wolverine<\/em><\/em>, and see it in all of its widescreen, multitrack stereo glory, as I did. When the clip was over, to put it simply, my mouth was literally hanging open. (Not even a brief appearance by <a href=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=42\"  target=\"_blank\">presidential troubador Will.I.Am<\/a>, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.superherohype.com\/news\/topnews.php?id=6817\"  target=\"_blank\">mutant John Wraith<\/a>, could spoil my delirium.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve gotta admit: After three X-Men films, I was sure that 20th Century Fox \/ Marvel had gone to the well one too many times with this one.<\/p>\n<p>Dead. <em>That<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The birth of Wolverine: Hugh Jackman in X-Men Origins: Wolverine I went to see Notorious on Wednesday\u2014an a&#8217;ight film about the astounding Biggie Smalls\u2014before my panel at the Brecht Forum. During the previews, they ran the trailer for X-Men Origins: Wolverine, above, out May 1st. Now, blogs work by connecting readers to content on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}