{"id":10401,"date":"2023-11-09T08:11:38","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T08:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=10401"},"modified":"2023-11-09T08:11:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T08:11:38","slug":"movies-inchon-1981","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=10401","title":{"rendered":"MOViES: Inchon, 1981"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/img_3621-1-683x1024.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-10398\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/img_3621-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/img_3621-1-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/img_3621-1.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> Not a very attractive poster!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m a fan, kind of (poss\u2019 more in theory than in practice?) of epic war movies. This one, a box-office bomb, recipient of several Razzies, and often billed as \u2018one if the worst films ever made\u2019, intrigues me for several reasons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Firstly, it was directed by Terence Young, best known as a director of three Bond movies (Dr No, From Russia sand Thunderball). Secondly, it stars a latex wearing Larry O\u2019, as General MacArthur. And third, I kinda like Ben Gazzara, and he\u2019s in it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"627\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/img_3622-1.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-10399\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/img_3622-1.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/img_3622-1-300x235.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/img_3622-1-768x602.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ben G\u2019, with Jacqueline Bisset.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And also, and very importantly for me, it looks &#8211; from various stills (such as the one below) &#8211; like the action\/combat scenes are proper epic\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"648\" height=\"365\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/img_3623.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-10400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/img_3623.jpg 648w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/img_3623-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Wow! A great shot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I know very little about the Korean War. One suspects it was probably one of America\u2019s many super heavy-handed post-WWII anti-Commie foreign policy blunders. And, from what I\u2019ve read thus far, online, I don\u2019t think Inchon, the movie, is the place to go for historical truth!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the fact it\u2019s so massively panned actually makes me any to see it more. So much popular opinion is erroneous guff! I pretty much always prefer to make up my own mind. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m a fan, kind of (poss\u2019 more in theory than in practice?) of epic war movies. This one, a box-office bomb, recipient of several Razzies, and often billed as \u2018one if the worst films ever made\u2019, intrigues me for several reasons. Firstly, it was directed by Terence Young, best known as a director of three &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=10401\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MOViES: Inchon, 1981&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-2HL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10401"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}