{"id":100,"date":"2014-03-14T20:25:42","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T20:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/?p=100"},"modified":"2021-03-01T19:48:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T19:48:43","slug":"a-pathetic-explanation-and-a-delightful-blue-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/?p=100","title":{"rendered":"A pathetic explanation and a delightful blue bird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tenkmovies.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/03\/kevin_hart_let_me_explain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-101 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/tenkmovies.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/03\/kevin_hart_let_me_explain.jpg?w=202\" alt=\"Kevin_Hart_Let_Me_Explain\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2609912\/?ref_=nv_sr_2\">Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(2013)<\/p>\n<p>This is\u00a0a concert film of Kevin Hart&#8217;s 2013 sold out Madison Square Garden show.\u00a0 I enjoyed the\u00a0 television show <em>Undeclared,<\/em> and\u00a0Hart&#8217;s 2013 <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> appearance was decent, but this\u00a0was my first exposure to his stand up act.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, most of his &#8220;jokes revolve around the difficulties of being famous or how great his life is.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t mind profanity, but Mr. Hart apparently thinks the word <em>fuck<\/em> is a punch line.<\/p>\n<p>At times, his observations are amusing, but he often takes what could have been an insightful moment of humor and adds a few expletives to make it funny.<\/p>\n<p>I can only assume the laughing crowd was from another show, or he had released some laughing gas on his unsuspecting\u00a0audience.<\/p>\n<p>Some might enjoy his particular brand of shock humor, but I&#8217;ll take a pass.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tenkmovies.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/03\/untitled1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-103 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/tenkmovies.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/03\/untitled1.png\" alt=\"untitled\" width=\"189\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0008891\/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3\">The Blue Bird<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(1918)<\/p>\n<p>When wealthy children Tyltyl and Mytyl are rude to their poor neighbors, the fairy Berylune sends them on a magical quest\u00a0searching for the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bluebird_of_happiness\">bluebird of happiness<\/a>. Various mystical creatures join them, including a talking dog and the souls of fire, water, and light.<\/p>\n<p>The group travels to the Kingdom of the Future where\u00a0Tyltyl and Mytyl\u00a0meet their\u00a0yet-to-be-born brother and learn to appreciate the blessings of their life, particularly their mother&#8217;s love.<\/p>\n<p>A remnant of a bygone era of earnest sincerity,\u00a0this gorgeous, sweet, film could not be made\u00a0in today&#8217;s hyper-cynical environment, but it&#8217;s a great movie which reminds us of the power of fairytales, and more than deserves its\u00a0placement on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Film_Registry\">National Film Registry<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain\u00a0(2013) This is\u00a0a concert film of Kevin Hart&#8217;s 2013 sold out Madison Square Garden show.\u00a0 I enjoyed the\u00a0 television show Undeclared, and\u00a0Hart&#8217;s 2013 Saturday Night Live appearance was decent, but this\u00a0was my first exposure to his stand up act. Sadly, most of his &#8220;jokes revolve around the difficulties of being&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/?p=100\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A pathetic explanation and a delightful blue bird<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[274,278,456,577,725,745],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-progress","tag-fairytales","tag-fantasy-films","tag-kevin-hart","tag-national-film-registry","tag-silent-films","tag-stand-up-comedy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11695,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/11695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}