{"id":12255,"date":"2017-09-21T20:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T01:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=12255"},"modified":"2017-09-19T12:49:16","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T17:49:16","slug":"atomic-the-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/12255","title":{"rendered":"Atomic \/ The Bomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nuclear war was in the air this month, so I double-featured two hour-long films.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong><em>Atomic<\/em> (2015, Mark Cousins)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A bunch of period footage cut with no sense of rhythm&#8230; not sure what this adds to the conversation.  It&#8217;s not fair that Cousins gets to use and manipulate the music of Mogwai, instead of vice versa.  It&#8217;s diverting, at least.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image17\/atomic.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong><em>The Bomb<\/em> (2016, Kevin Ford &#038; Smriti Keshari)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Started out so promising&#8230; scientific documents expertly composited over footage that was mostly unique from the other movie.  Then it devolves into mumford-scored bomb montages with a long segment from that old standby <em>Duck &#038; Cover<\/em>, ending up on the surface of the sun, just like the other movie.  If we could&#8217;ve taken the first half of this movie and scored it with Mogwai, then we&#8217;d really have something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nuclear war was in the air this month, so I double-featured two hour-long films. &#8211; Atomic (2015, Mark Cousins) A bunch of period footage cut with no sense of rhythm&#8230; not sure what this adds to the conversation. It&#8217;s not fair that Cousins gets to use and manipulate the music of Mogwai, instead of vice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,1890,93,1470,2328,751,1096],"class_list":["post-12255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-atomic-bomb","tag-documentary","tag-mark-cousins","tag-mogwai","tag-nuclear-war","tag-stock-footage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12268,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12255\/revisions\/12268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}