{"id":1539,"date":"2004-06-21T01:18:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-21T01:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/~frers\/cgi-bin\/blosxom.cgi\/reviews\/movies\/prisoner_of_azkaban.html"},"modified":"2010-01-23T12:28:24","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T11:28:24","slug":"actually-entertaining-therefore-much-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/?p=1539","title":{"rendered":"Actually entertaining, therefore much better."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I never thought I would go and watch another <em>Harry Potter<\/em> sequel in a movie theater, thinking that I might as well throw the money from my balcony and be a happier Lars than I would have been after watching <em>The Prisoner Of Azkaban<\/em>. Then I heard that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0190859\/\" title=\"IMDb entry for Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n\">director<\/a> of this movie is the director of the fabulous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0245574\/\" title=\"IMDb entry for Y tu mama tambien\">Y Tu Mama Tambien<\/a> and suddenly became interested. I liked this movie a lot more than the other two; it was magical and the setting both gloomier and more fairy-tale-like. Nonetheless, I wouldn&#8217;t recommend this movie to people who don&#8217;t like fantasy settings or the Harry Potter series. For such an audience, the movie is not good enough. I was very relieved that it wasn&#8217;t as bland and superficially funny as the first two movies. Do I have to mention that I would have totally adored Emma Watson (a.k.a. Hermione) in my teens?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0304141\/\">IMDb entry<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/trailers\/wb\/harry_potter-azkaban\/\" title=\"QuickTime plugin required\">Trailer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never thought I would go and watch another Harry Potter sequel in a movie theater, thinking that I might as well throw the money from my balcony and be a happier Lars than I would have been after watching The Prisoner Of Azkaban. Then I heard that the director of this movie is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11],"tags":[279,291,153,152],"class_list":["post-1539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","category-review","tag-alfonso-cuaron","tag-emma-watson","tag-fantasy","tag-harry-potter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2398,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions\/2398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}