{"id":1442,"date":"2010-11-12T16:18:35","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T16:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1442"},"modified":"2011-10-29T13:11:45","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T18:11:45","slug":"dvd_taking_chan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2010\/11\/dvd_taking_chan.html","title":{"rendered":"DVD: Taking Chance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Calm. Slow. Elegaic.<\/p>\n

I cried approximately 100 times during the 78 minutes it took to watch this flick.<\/p>\n

I would say this movie* should be required viewing for those deciding to send our young’uns off to war…if I didn’t think those people were 90% jerks who don’t care about anyone but themselves and even seeing this couldn’t move their stonecold hearts.<\/p>\n

*Along with others, like In the Valley of Elah<\/a>, Hurt Locker<\/a>, and Stop Loss<\/strong>–just to name movies made about THIS war. There are of course many other great movies made about other wars. They should get them all in a pack like Oscar voters. “Before making a really bad decision, take a minute and attempt to understand what these movies have to say about war.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Calm. Slow. Elegaic. I cried approximately 100 times during the 78 minutes it took to watch this flick. I would say this movie* should be required viewing for those deciding to send our young’uns off to war…if I didn’t think … Continue reading →<\/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-1442","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\/1442","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=1442"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2125,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions\/2125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}