{"id":29946,"date":"2013-12-11T16:43:38","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T21:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=29946"},"modified":"2018-12-18T16:57:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T21:57:13","slug":"hypothetical-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/11\/hypothetical-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Hypothetical (2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Nic Barker comes one of the funniest short films I&#8217;ve seen in a while. Two buddies are sitting along their couch drinking beer and pondering on the hypothetical questions that everyone goes through. At least everyone with a bit of a mental defect. &#8220;Hypothetical&#8221; isn&#8217;t so much a short film as it is a situation comedy, but it&#8217;s still one that achieves the intended comedic effect.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Nic Barker&#8217;s scenario is fairly simplistic with both men exploring the extremes of their hypothetical questions. As with most men, one question mounts in to a series of various other questions, all of which are an effort by the pair to one up the other. Very much in the vein of Monty Python, &#8220;Hypothetical&#8221; really does vie for the extreme version of this game. And the final scene where both have lost themselves in the game unaware of their surroundings gauged a definite solid chuckle from me. I really like the situation director Nic Barker sets up for what is a four minute look at mal insanity, and I definitely want to see what he&#8217;s capable of with a longer length in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Nic Barker comes one of the funniest short films I&#8217;ve seen in a while. Two buddies are sitting along their couch drinking beer and pondering on the hypothetical questions that everyone goes through. At least everyone with a bit of a mental defect. &#8220;Hypothetical&#8221; isn&#8217;t so much a short film as it is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[219,501,938],"class_list":["post-29946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-comedy","tag-indie-film","tag-short-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29947,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29946\/revisions\/29947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}