{"id":38894,"date":"2017-02-20T18:17:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T02:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=38894"},"modified":"2017-02-20T22:21:12","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T06:21:12","slug":"john-g-avildsen-king-of-the-underdogs-derek-wayne-johnson-2016usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=38894","title":{"rendered":"John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs (Derek Wayne Johnson 2016)|USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by\u00a0<em>Finso Gyaltsen<\/em>, viewed at the\u00a0Santa Barbara International Film Festival (Feb. 2017)<a href=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/john_g._avildsen-_king_of_the_underdogs_poster_key_art.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-38941\" src=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/john_g._avildsen-_king_of_the_underdogs_poster_key_art-217x325.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/john_g._avildsen-_king_of_the_underdogs_poster_key_art-217x325.jpg 217w, https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/john_g._avildsen-_king_of_the_underdogs_poster_key_art.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>John G Avildsen<\/p>\n<p>King of The Underdogs:<\/p>\n<p>Why that name?<\/p>\n<p>Its cause John told stories,<\/p>\n<p>Stories about Underdogs<\/p>\n<p>That were his biggest hits<\/p>\n<p>Rising above from the bog<\/p>\n<p>Rocky &amp; The Karate Kid<\/p>\n<p>Sadly his only hits<\/p>\n<p>At least the ones you or I know of<\/p>\n<p>Next came a few flops<\/p>\n<p>Then came\u00a0obscurity and problems<\/p>\n<p>The director of this doc. grew up on Avildsen movies<\/p>\n<p>This film attempts to rekindle and remind us.<\/p>\n<p>This doc, just like the John G Avildsen&#8217;s movies<\/p>\n<p>Has a feel good vibe to it which wears off pretty quick<\/p>\n<p>Did people lose interest in these feel good movies?<\/p>\n<p>Or did too much cheese lead to lactose intolerance<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by\u00a0Finso Gyaltsen, viewed at the\u00a0Santa Barbara International Film Festival (Feb. 2017) John G Avildsen King of The Underdogs: Why that name? Its cause John told stories, Stories about Underdogs That were his biggest hits Rising above from the bog Rocky &amp; The Karate Kid Sadly his only hits At least the ones you or I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,3,290],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentary","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2017"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/135206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}