{"id":16515,"date":"2020-09-07T22:46:38","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T02:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=16515"},"modified":"2020-09-22T22:04:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T02:04:18","slug":"the-thirteenth-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/the-thirteenth-floor\/","title":{"rendered":"The Thirteenth Floor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{3\/5} &#8220;He made himself a god, and it corrupted him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Thirteenth Floor<\/strong>, released in 1999<\/p>\n<p>Douglas Hall works at a computer software company where they&#8217;ve been working on something revolutionary &#8212; an artificial world where the characters think they&#8217;re real people. His boss, Hannon Fuller, was murdered and Douglas can&#8217;t remember what he was doing at that time. Hannon had been going into the simulation even though it wasn&#8217;t safe. Douglas goes in himself to find out what&#8217;s going on &#8212; it&#8217;s a simulation of 1937.<\/p>\n<p>Some people think this is a great movie, but I don&#8217;t see it. There&#8217;s an interesting story within it and the actors do what they can, but it&#8217;s far from great. It might have held a bit more interest if I&#8217;d seen it before <strong>The Matrix<\/strong> and <strong>Dark City<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a twist but you can see it coming a mile away.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a fan of film noir and have some patience, you might want to check it out.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Craig Bierko, Gretchen Mol, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Vincent D&#8217;Onofrio, and Dennis Haysbert. Directed by Josef Rusnak (<strong>Beyond<\/strong>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{3\/5} &#8220;He made himself a god, and it corrupted him.&#8221; The Thirteenth Floor, released in 1999 Douglas Hall works at a computer software company where they&#8217;ve been working on something revolutionary &#8212; an artificial world where the characters think they&#8217;re real people. His boss, Hannon Fuller, was murdered and Douglas can&#8217;t remember what he was [&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-16515","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\/16515","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=16515"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16541,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16515\/revisions\/16541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}