{"id":1020,"date":"2009-09-01T14:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T18:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/09\/01\/in-gamer-north-country-filmmaker-zings-pop-culture\/"},"modified":"2009-09-01T14:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T18:06:00","slug":"in-gamer-north-country-filmmaker-zings-pop-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/09\/01\/in-gamer-north-country-filmmaker-zings-pop-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"In &quot;Gamer&quot; North Country filmmaker zings pop culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Neveldine and his wife, actress Alison Lohman, live part of the year on a farm near Watertown, where according to the NYTimes he grew up.<\/p>\n<p>His new movie, &#8220;Gamer,&#8221; is a big budget blockbuster smash-bang pic that aims to embrace and explore America&#8217;s x-box\/reality show culture at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the treatment from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/30\/movies\/30wein.html?_r=1&amp;ref=movies\">New York Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe more we thought about reality shows and ultimate fighting and gamers playing 24\/7, we began to see the world spiraling into a black hole,\u201d Mr. Neveldine, 34, explained. \u201cWe decided to make \u2018Gamer\u2019 as a warning.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Neveldine&#8217;s past films include &#8220;Crank&#8221; and &#8220;Crank: High Voltage.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Check out a trailer for &#8220;Gamer&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/LionsgateLIVE?feature=pyv\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Neveldine and his wife, actress Alison Lohman, live part of the year on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}