{"id":15617,"date":"2011-08-09T20:43:56","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=15617"},"modified":"2018-12-08T22:34:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T03:34:20","slug":"new-releases-aug-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/09\/new-releases-aug-9\/","title":{"rendered":"New Releases: Aug 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/TheHelpPoster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/TheHelpPoster-e1312939434132.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"TheHelpPoster\" width=\"185\" height=\"275\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15618\" \/><\/a><strong>The Help (Disney, 2,511 Theaters, 137 Minutes, Rated PG-13):<\/strong> if the amount of people I see on my travels reading the book this film was based on is an accurate tool to measure buzz for a movie, then this film has the makings of a majorly big hit. However, as someone who not read the book and who has no interest in it, I don&#8217;t know what to expect from this film.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I know what the plot will be. A young girl named Skeeter who wants to be a writer discovers a story right in her Southern hometown&#8211;the way the white matronly ladies treat their African-American help. The story is good enough to get her a book deal, but when the ladies in town see through her thinly veiled characters to see that Skeeter is talking about them, all heck breaks loose.<\/p>\n<p>However, I&#8217;ve seen ads for the film that make it look like a thoughtful look at the civil rights struggles in the 60s, and I&#8217;ve seen ads where it looks like a wacky class comedy. When I see two diametrically opposed ad campaigns such as that, it makes me think hucksterism is involved. Not that it matters, because all the fans of the book I&#8217;ve spoken to can&#8217;t wait to see the film. But as an outsider, I am wary<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"520\" height=\"345\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.traileraddict.com\/emd\/38773\"\/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\"\/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.traileraddict.com\/emd\/38773\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"520\" height=\"345\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">An immensely popular book adaptation gets a head start on the weekend box office battle. <\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/09\/new-releases-aug-9\/\" title=\"New Releases: Aug 10\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[751,4162],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-disney","9":"tag-the-help"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2,4],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15617"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=15617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}