{"id":1029,"date":"2008-10-20T09:53:57","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T09:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2025-04-03T18:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T23:23:08","slug":"big_screen_burn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/10\/big_screen_burn.html","title":{"rendered":"Big Screen: Burn After Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the surface, a very funny, often abruptly violent movie that you could easily just laugh through and enjoy &#8220;for what it is.&#8221; Dig a little deeper and there&#8217;s some very prescient criticism of the (practically defunct? hello 9\/11) US spy system.<\/p>\n<p>Hilarious and very <strong>twitchy <\/strong>performances by Clooney, Pitt and McDormand. Over the top and really hilarious belligerence by Malkovich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the surface, a very funny, often abruptly violent movie that you could easily just laugh through and enjoy &#8220;for what it is.&#8221; Dig a little deeper and there&#8217;s some very prescient criticism of the (practically defunct? hello 9\/11) US &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/10\/big_screen_burn.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flicks","category-watchin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3629,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions\/3629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}