{"id":697,"date":"2002-07-13T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-13T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=697"},"modified":"2025-07-09T15:20:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T19:20:44","slug":"reign-of-fire-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=697","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Reign of Fire&quot; Rocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2002\/z071302reignoffire.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"358\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">I went to &#8220;<\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial;\">Reign of Fire<\/b><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">&#8221; hoping for an action-packed roller-coaster ride.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">&#8220;<b>Reign of Fire<\/b>&#8221; boasts a screenplay by three people [<b>Gregg Chabot, Kevin Peterka, Matt Greenberg<\/b>], that I&#8217;ve never heard of. Its stars are <b>Christian Bale<\/b>, and <b>Matthew McConaughey<\/b> [neither considered &#8220;A&#8221; list], and is directed by <b>Rob Bowman<\/b> [who didn&#8217;t impress me with the <em>&#8220;X-Files&#8221;<\/em> movie]. The odds were that the film would be entertaining at best&#8230; the odds were wrong. This film rocks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\"><b>Bale<\/b> did an excellent job in his role but <b>McConaughey<\/b> OWNED every scene he was in. The direction, production values, special effects were all top notch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">&#8220;<b>Reign of Fire&#8221;<\/b> rates an\u00a0 <strong>A<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to &#8220;Reign of Fire&#8221; hoping for an action-packed roller-coaster ride.\u00a0 &#8220;Reign of Fire&#8221; boasts a screenplay by three<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39322,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions\/39322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}