{"id":14151,"date":"2021-04-07T20:00:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T00:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14151"},"modified":"2021-04-04T13:10:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T17:10:45","slug":"monster-hunter-2020-paul-w-s-anderson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14151","title":{"rendered":"Monster Hunter (2020, Paul W.S. Anderson)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The opening scene is full-on nuts and very fakey looking, but i dunno that you need a sand-dune sailboat being attacked by giant duneworms to look &#8220;realistic.&#8221;  Back in &#8220;our world&#8221; Milla Jovovich is an elite UN soldier(?) until a desert storm transports her to the monster-hunting world where her team is wiped out and she&#8217;s cocooned by skittering creatures in an underground insect Matrix until kidnapped by incredible archer Tony Jaa.  She fucks up his shrine and they have a really violent fight, then they join forces and make her an arm-mounted grappling crossbow.  &#8220;To kill a monster you need a monster.&#8221;  Lost Boy Ron Perlman joins them, fighting off a stampede with flaming swords, then we go through the kidnapping \/ friendship thing again to fight a fire-breathing dragon.  If I&#8217;m making this movie sound unbelievably awesome, that&#8217;s only because it is.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/monsthunt1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/monsthunt2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/monsthunt3.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The opening scene is full-on nuts and very fakey looking, but i dunno that you need a sand-dune sailboat being attacked by giant duneworms to look &#8220;realistic.&#8221; Back in &#8220;our world&#8221; Milla Jovovich is an elite UN soldier(?) until a desert storm transports her to the monster-hunting world where her team is wiped out and [&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":[2643,2317,624,2294,1611,56,2841],"class_list":["post-14151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-dragon","tag-giant-monsters","tag-milla-jovovich","tag-paul-ws-anderson","tag-ron-perlman","tag-tony-jaa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14151","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=14151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14175,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14151\/revisions\/14175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}