{"id":1091,"date":"2009-01-20T17:06:22","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T17:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1091"},"modified":"2025-04-05T14:55:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T19:55:02","slug":"dvd_death_race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/01\/dvd_death_race.html","title":{"rendered":"DVD: Death Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing more than an action movie chockfull of explosions and car chases.   But for what it is?  Pretty entertaining.  (Far more entertaining than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/01\/dvd_pineapple_e.html\">the movie I watched yesterday<\/a>.)  Maybe not enough hand-to-hand fighting for a prison movie (not enough shirtless scenes, certainly).<\/p>\n<p>A combination of Mad Max, futuristic prison scenes, and The Fast &#038; The Furious stylized car races\/chases.  It did a nice job of whiling away two hours for me and I certainly wasn&#8217;t bored, even though I was sometimes laughing when I maybe wasn&#8217;t supposed to be.<\/p>\n<p>Really, my only question is: What the fuck is Joan Allen doing in this movie?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing more than an action movie chockfull of explosions and car chases. But for what it is? Pretty entertaining. (Far more entertaining than the movie I watched yesterday.) Maybe not enough hand-to-hand fighting for a prison movie (not enough shirtless &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/01\/dvd_death_race.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-1091","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\/1091","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=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1584,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions\/1584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}