{"id":492,"date":"2003-12-15T20:03:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-15T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=492"},"modified":"2003-12-15T20:03:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-15T20:03:00","slug":"on-hornblower-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=492","title":{"rendered":"On Hornblower III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received <i>Hornblower III<\/i> on DVD today; it&#8217;s only been out for a week, I ordered it from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/\">Amazon<\/a>, to take advantage of a really deep discount, no tax, <i>and<\/i> free shipping, and it finally arrived today.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve watched the first movie.  Some of the reviews I&#8217;ve seen online suggested that it all looked a little on the cheap side, especially in comparison to <i>Master &#038; Commander<\/i>, but for what I saw it looked pretty damn spiffy.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I like about this go around is that the first movie stood on its own, unlike in <i>Hornblower II<\/i> where it was really a three-and-a-half hour story split into two parts.<\/p>\n<p>It might be my imagination, it might be the make-up department, but I&#8217;d swear that Paul McGann is going gray, especially around the temples.<\/p>\n<p>Generally well-directed.  A particular beauty was a shot near the end where Hornblower and Bush are standing on the beach, the camera pulls back, and the carnage of the battle behind them is spread all about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received Hornblower III on DVD today; it&#8217;s only been out for a week, I ordered it from Amazon, to take advantage of a really deep discount, no tax, and free shipping, and it finally arrived today. I&#8217;ve watched the first movie. Some of the reviews I&#8217;ve seen online suggested that it all looked a<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=492\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Hornblower III&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[538],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-hornblower","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}