{"id":352,"date":"2013-10-15T08:37:48","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T21:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/?p=352"},"modified":"2013-10-15T08:37:48","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T21:37:48","slug":"review-the-mortal-instruments-city-of-bones-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2013\/10\/15\/review-the-mortal-instruments-city-of-bones-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Mortal Instruments City of Bones (2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_353\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-353\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/MORTAL-INSTRUMENTS-GUIDE_612x380.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-353 \" alt=\"MORTAL-INSTRUMENTS-GUIDE_612x380\" src=\"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/MORTAL-INSTRUMENTS-GUIDE_612x380-300x186.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-353\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yaaawwnnn!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I must admit to yawning quite a bit through this <em>Underworld<\/em> copycat film complete with demons, vampires, werewolves&#8230;you know the standard sort of fare.<\/p>\n<p>Its not that it was exactly a bad film, it had some interesting moments, just that I&#8217;ve kind of seen it all before. Apparently an original book\u00a0by Cassandra Clare (yes very original)\u00a0the first book of The Mortal Instruments series. I guess this means there will be some harry-potter-esque sequels in the wings (Actually having brought Harry into the mix, this is probably the thing I most disliked about about the film, all its silly spells and quests; but then I didn&#8217;t much like the\u00a0<em>Lord of the Rings<\/em>\u00a0either).<\/p>\n<p>Sex appeal-wise Lily Colins (and indeed Lena Headey) were no comparison to Kate Beckinsale in a tight-fitting cat suit leaping about killing vampires. It was not frightening in the least; perhaps the most &#8220;creepy&#8221; aspect of the film would be that we find out (spoiler alert..look away) the young couple falling in love and kissing in the garden are actually brother and sister! (..well I suppose everyone knows this from the book anyway..)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must admit to yawning quite a bit through this Underworld copycat film complete with demons, vampires, werewolves&#8230;you know the standard sort of fare. Its not that it was exactly a bad film, it had some interesting moments, just that I&#8217;ve kind of seen it all before. Apparently an original book\u00a0by Cassandra Clare (yes very &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2013\/10\/15\/review-the-mortal-instruments-city-of-bones-2013\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review: The Mortal Instruments City of Bones (2013)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}