{"id":2621,"date":"2015-02-23T13:50:16","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T13:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/?p=2621"},"modified":"2018-03-14T01:55:20","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T01:55:20","slug":"hot-tub-time-machine-2-sadly-a-little-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/hot-tub-time-machine-2-sadly-a-little-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"HOT TUB TIME MACHINE 2:  Sadly&#8230; a little stupid."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-3penrWylEk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A lot of people make the mistake that because I used to be a screenwriter, and because I am very critical of storytelling, that I prefer to see serious &#8220;deep thinking&#8221; movies. \u00a0 Nothing could be farther from the truth. \u00a0I love comedies. \u00a0In fact, I love what many people consider stupid comedies. \u00a0So when the 2nd Hot Tub Time Machine was announced, I was jumping for joy. \u00a0 Well not literally. \u00a0But, you know what I mean. \u00a0P.S. I loathe deep thinking.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Awesome&#8221; is what I think of the first Hot Tub Time Machine. \u00a0I thought it was written very well, acted very well, and was the right amount of funny and gross to tell your friends all about. \u00a0 But the sequel was stupid. \u00a0And it was painful to watch this movie bomb. \u00a0 There were definitely parts of this movie that made you laugh. \u00a0 But there were far too many jokes wrapped around a very thin story-line, and characters that were just not likable. \u00a0 The original screenwriter and director returned to film the sequel. \u00a0Missing, were two other screenwriters from the first, who most likely were responsible for rewriting the original script in Hot Tub Time Machine One to include more story.<\/p>\n<p>A script is usually ALWAYS fixed during pre-production and the writers who help fix it receive no credit. \u00a0That is, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">unless<\/span> the original script was heavily rewritten to the point were the union demanded credit. \u00a0 I believe the original script in the first movie was heavily rewritten, thus the additional writing credits. \u00a0The sequel, not so much, since there is only one credit.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t go to to see this movie in the theaters. \u00a0 Wait for DVD. \u00a0If you didn&#8217;t see the 1st one, it&#8217;s worth watching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of people make the mistake that because I used to be a screenwriter, and because I am very critical of storytelling, that I prefer to see serious &#8220;deep thinking&#8221; movies. \u00a0 Nothing could be farther from the truth. \u00a0I love comedies. \u00a0In fact, I love what many people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}