{"id":2602,"date":"2021-11-26T19:19:23","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T19:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/?p=2602"},"modified":"2025-06-05T06:11:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T06:11:48","slug":"film-hick-prisoners-of-the-ghostland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/?p=2602","title":{"rendered":"Film Hick: Prisoners Of The Ghostland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When you let Nicholas Cage loose and he in scene-chewing mode you need something solid for him to connect with. If Cage swings and hits against nothing substantial then the whole act feels just as paper-thin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This seems like something crafted from notes Alex Cox may have thrown in the trash. Some half-baked riff on Mad max that reaches and never touches the heights it wants to. It seems like a series of good ideas that are not well executed. It  is not annoying enough that you switch off, but if you are doing anything else it fades into the background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cage is going through something of a renaissance at the moment, but this is out of step with that. It is lightweight, and not in a good way. Blow off a bollock, do we need to see it? Do we need to see this? Only if you\\&#8217;re a completist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you let Nicholas Cage loose and he in scene-chewing mode you need something solid for him to connect with. If Cage swings and hits against nothing substantial then the whole act feels just as paper-thin. This seems like something <a href=\"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/?p=2602\"> Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[60,61],"tags":[492,770,771,844,999,1134],"class_list":["post-2602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film","category-film-hick","tag-film","tag-muse-hick","tag-musehick","tag-paul-grimsley","tag-skull-cull","tag-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/prisoners-of-ghostland.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2744,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions\/2744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}