{"id":8484,"date":"2015-02-06T07:02:52","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T12:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/blog\/?p=8484"},"modified":"2015-02-05T16:31:32","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T21:31:32","slug":"review-project-almanac-provides-a-solid-time-travel-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/?p=8484","title":{"rendered":"Review: \u2018Project Almanac\u2019 provides a solid time-travel adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015-02-06-Project-Almanac-movie-poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8485 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015-02-06-Project-Almanac-movie-poster.jpg\" alt=\"2015-02-06-Project-Almanac-movie-poster\" width=\"250\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015-02-06-Project-Almanac-movie-poster.jpg 250w, https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015-02-06-Project-Almanac-movie-poster-192x300.jpg 192w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>By MARK VIOLA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Time travel is an amazingly versatile concept when it comes to movies, and there have been some really fun and exciting films to use it, including \u201cBack to the Future,\u201d \u201cThe Terminator,\u201d \u201cLooper\u201d and \u201c12 Monkeys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I went into the latest time travel movie \u201cProject Almanac\u201d with a bit of hope and a mild dose of trepidation. I came out thinking the film was actually quite enjoyable, and while it\u2019s not perfect by any stretch, it still offers plenty of enjoyment over its rather lean 106 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>One of the first things you need to know about \u201cProject Almanac,\u201d besides the fact that it is a time travel movie, is that it\u2019s also a found-footage film, with all of the scenes appearing to have been filmed by the characters themselves. I\u2019ve reviewed quite a few found-footage movies over the years. They had been becoming increasingly popular, at least until recently, when people seemed to tire of the concept, just like any over-used premise.<\/p>\n<p>As a found-footage movie, \u201cProject Almanac\u201d is also pretty decent, making it reasonably believable&#8211;with several notable exceptions&#8211;that the characters would actually continue to film the events as they unfolded rather than just dropping the camera.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, \u201cProject Almanac\u201d will not be long remembered as an excellent addition to the time travel mythology, but it is a solidly fun romp arriving at a time when there isn\u2019t a lot of competition.<\/p>\n<p><em>(This is a shortened version of the full review available in our printed or e-edition papers.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By MARK VIOLA Time travel is an amazingly versatile concept when it comes to movies, and there have been some really fun and exciting films to use it, including \u201cBack to the Future,\u201d \u201cThe Terminator,\u201d \u201cLooper\u201d and \u201c12 Monkeys.\u201d I went into the latest time travel movie \u201cProject Almanac\u201d with a bit of hope and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-8484","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\/8484","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=8484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8486,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8484\/revisions\/8486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}