{"id":372,"date":"2017-04-04T16:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T22:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=372"},"modified":"2017-09-10T16:43:15","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T22:43:15","slug":"movie-manchester-by-the-sea-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/04\/movie-manchester-by-the-sea-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVIE: Manchester by the Sea (2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/d\/de\/Manchester_by_the_Sea.jpg\" alt=\"Manchester by the Sea\" width=\"220\" height=\"326\" \/>Manchester by the Sea<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nYear: 2016<br \/>\nRating: R<br \/>\nLength: 137 minutes \/ 2.28 hours<\/p>\n<p>Part of the trouble with the reputation of a film preceding it is the film rarely lives up to the hype. At least, that has been my experience. If I go into a movie with my own idea of what it will be and the movie delivers, I feel it is a good movie. However, if my idea of the movie is skewed based on what I\u2019ve heard about it, then I might be disappointed if it doesn\u2019t match what I was expecting. This is why I\u2019ll likely watch a trailer for a film, but I won\u2019t read any reviews of it until I\u2019ve already seen it.<\/p>\n<p>For Amazon\u2019s successful foray into filmmaking, part of me expected a lot out of <em>Manchester by the Sea<\/em> (2016). After all, they don\u2019t necessarily have to ascribe to the same processes and procedures that hold down other production companies. Add to this my impression that the story of <em>Manchester by the Sea<\/em> was quite depressing and my mental preparation to watch a sad film. Unfortunately, because the first expectation led to an underwhelming result, the second expectation didn\u2019t have the impact I thought it would. Don\u2019t get me wrong; there are a lot of elements adding together to try and make the film quite sad. From the plot to the music, the theme of loss is strong throughout. However, the characters soldier on.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure if it was the often confusing flashbacks or the slow plot progression (they should have just called it \u201cCasey Affleck drives around in a jeep . . . a lot\u201d), but there was only one truly impactful scene in the film. If the filmmakers were trying to make a movie about an emotionally numb man who successfully deals with the death of his brother, then they have succeeded.<\/p>\n<p>Not as sad or as good as I was expecting, I give <em>Manchester by the Sea<\/em> 3.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><\/strong><strong>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><\/strong><strong>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><\/strong><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester by the Sea Year: 2016 Rating: R Length: 137 minutes \/ 2.28 hours Part of the trouble with the reputation of a film preceding it is the film rarely lives up to the hype. At least, that has been my experience. If I go into a movie with my own idea of what it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,2,370,369],"tags":[9,442,444,443,441,13,139,8],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-0-stars","category-movie","category-nominee","category-oscar","tag-9","tag-amazon","tag-casey-affleck","tag-depressing","tag-manchester-by-the-sea","tag-movie","tag-oscar-nominee","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":814,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions\/814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}