{"id":13373,"date":"2018-11-29T19:55:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T00:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=13373"},"modified":"2018-12-02T22:41:04","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T03:41:04","slug":"coherence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/coherence\/","title":{"rendered":"Coherence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{3.5\/5} &#8220;We&#8217;re not splitting up, we&#8217;re just going to go in two different groups.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Coherence<\/strong>, released in 2013<\/p>\n<p>A group of friends has gathered for dinner. A comet is passing near the Earth, and no one&#8217;s phone is working. Then people&#8217;s phone screens start shattering. Then the hydro goes off. They go outside where they notice that one house has lights, maybe 2 blocks away &#8212; 2 of them go to make a call, and then stranger things start happening.<\/p>\n<p>The dialogue in this movie is more like real life &#8212; people sometimes talk at the same time, so you don&#8217;t get every word.<\/p>\n<p>It felt a bit like <strong>Lost<\/strong>, where everyone was arguing but no one really knew what the truth was.<\/p>\n<p>Watch it when you have lots of patience. Two thirds of the way through, there&#8217;s a stunning moment.<\/p>\n<p>Like <strong>Time Trap<\/strong>, it&#8217;s an interesting concept with a not-completely-successful execution. This one is better, possibly due to better actors.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Nicholas Brendon. Directed by James Ward Byrkit (writer on <strong>Rango<\/strong>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{3.5\/5} &#8220;We&#8217;re not splitting up, we&#8217;re just going to go in two different groups.&#8221; Coherence, released in 2013 A group of friends has gathered for dinner. A comet is passing near the Earth, and no one&#8217;s phone is working. Then people&#8217;s phone screens start shattering. Then the hydro goes off. They go outside where they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6,5,8],"class_list":["post-13373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-movie","tag-review","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13373"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13386,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13373\/revisions\/13386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}