{"id":27530,"date":"2020-06-19T07:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T11:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/?p=27530"},"modified":"2020-06-18T22:23:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T02:23:20","slug":"artemis-fowl-lays-an-egg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/?p=27530","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Artemis Fowl\u2019 lays an egg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"370\" src=\"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2020-06-19-Artemis-Fowl-movie-poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2020-06-19-Artemis-Fowl-movie-poster.jpg 250w, https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2020-06-19-Artemis-Fowl-movie-poster-203x300.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By MARK VIOLA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ve never read the \u201cArtemis Fowl\u201d books written by Eoin Colfer, and I knew next to nothing about them before watching the new film adaptation directed by Kenneth Branagh (\u201cThor\u201d). The only thing I really knew was that fans of the books were apparently outraged when the first trailer was released because of the perceived changes made to both the story and the main character, 10-year-old Artemis Fowl (played by Ferdia Shaw).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I tried my best to ignore that going into the movie, because while fans might not like the end product, a good movie can result from filmmakers straying well away from the source material. The \u201cHow to Train Your Dragon\u201d films, making up one of my favorite trilogies of all time, bear little resemblance to the books upon which they were based. Also, while I was not a fan myself of the many changes made to the \u201cReady Player One\u201d adaptation, I can begrudgingly admit the movie stands well on its own, even if many of my favorite moments in the book never made it to the screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All that being said, it didn\u2019t take long for me to realize that \u201cArtemis Fowl\u201d was more than just a bad adaptation. It\u2019s a bad movie. Even before I started the film, I noticed that it is only 95 minutes long. Most adaptations struggle to fit into a full two hours or more, so that had me worried from the onset. Having not read the books myself, I looked it up after the fact and discovered that the story told in the movie is a bit of a mash-up from tales told in the first two books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By MARK VIOLA I\u2019ve never read the \u201cArtemis Fowl\u201d books written by Eoin Colfer, and I knew next to nothing about them before watching the new film adaptation directed by Kenneth Branagh (\u201cThor\u201d). The only thing I really knew was that fans of the books were apparently outraged when the first trailer was released because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-27530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-movie-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27532,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27530\/revisions\/27532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}