{"id":1145,"date":"2007-09-26T17:20:26","date_gmt":"2007-09-26T17:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2007-09-26T17:20:26","modified_gmt":"2007-09-26T17:20:26","slug":"five_scifi_movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2007\/09\/26\/five_scifi_movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Sci-Fi Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/\">SFSignal<\/a> asks the pressing question, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/005687.html\">What 5 Sci-Fi Movies Do You Watch Over and Over?<\/a>&#8221; I respond thusly:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Star Wars<\/i> (Duh! And, of course, by &#8220;Star Wars,&#8221; I mean the very first one made, what you whippersnappers refer to as &#8220;Episode IV: A New Hope.&#8221; Of course, again, I stubbornly refuse to think of it in those terms.)<\/li>\n<li><i>The Terminator<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Superman: The Movie<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>The Fifth Element<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Given the make-up of my <a title=\"Bennion\u2019s All-Time Favorite Movies: The Short \u2018n\u2019 Sweet Version\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/2006\/03\/bennions_alltime_favorite_movi_3\/\">All-Time Favorites<\/a> list and my tendency to re-watch pretty much any movie I like, I can&#8217;t tell you how hard it was to narrow my choices to a mere five. I finally decided to go with the ones that I never, <i>ever<\/i> turn off if I happen to find them on television, the ones that still suck me in completely and make me laugh, cry, or just keep watching, no matter how many times I&#8217;ve seen them before. Even going by that criterion, however, my choices were still difficult. Because having to choose just <i>sucks<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>This has been another time-wasting collection of unsolicited trivia about yours truly. We now return you to more productive activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SFSignal asks the pressing question, &#8220;What 5 Sci-Fi Movies Do You Watch Over and Over?&#8221; I respond thusly: Star Wars (Duh! And, of course, by &#8220;Star Wars,&#8221; I mean the very first one made, what you whippersnappers refer to as &#8220;Episode IV: A New Hope.&#8221; Of course, again, I stubbornly refuse to think of it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}