{"id":21338,"date":"2021-07-13T08:41:54","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T12:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=21338"},"modified":"2021-07-13T08:41:54","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T12:41:54","slug":"the-tomorrow-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=21338","title":{"rendered":"The Tomorrow War"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"821\" src=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/tomorrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/tomorrow.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/tomorrow-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/tomorrow-768x525.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I admit it. I&#8217;m a sucker for movies like this &#8212; pure, fast-moving, undemanding, popcorn-friendly entertainment. With that kind of movie, pacing is critical. There have to be times when the characters (and the audience) can stop and catch their breath. &#8220;The Tomorrow War&#8221; nicely balances the action against a family story, in much the same way as &#8220;Greenland.&#8221; Both the family drama and the action drama make good use of the time-travel angle.<\/p>\n<p>Paramount Pictures intended this movie for release in theaters, but because of Covid-19, it was released instead on Amazon Prime. It doesn&#8217;t score very high on Rotten Tomatoes, but I&#8217;d give it at least a 90.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I admit it. I&#8217;m a sucker for movies like this &#8212; pure, fast-moving, undemanding, popcorn-friendly entertainment. With that kind of movie, pacing is critical. There have to be times when the characters (and the audience) can stop and catch their breath. &#8220;The Tomorrow War&#8221; nicely balances the action against a family story, in much the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=21338\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Tomorrow War&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21341,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21338\/revisions\/21341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}