{"id":1503,"date":"2011-06-03T08:52:07","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T08:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1503"},"modified":"2011-08-25T15:01:02","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T20:01:02","slug":"big_screen_red_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2011\/06\/big_screen_red_.html","title":{"rendered":"Big Screen: Red State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh oh oh oh !!!! Oh, Kevin Smith fans, this movie is SO GREAT.  You are going to LOVE IT when it comes out&#8230;in September? I think. Or October. It&#8217;s So.So.SO!! Good.<\/p>\n<p>And non-Kevin Smith fans?  This is an outstanding movie about a very topical issue. Seriously. I know that&#8217;s not what you&#8217;re expecting but it&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n<p>I took a friend to see Kevin Smith live last year (or whenever, I don&#8217;t seem to have reviewed it here) and he returned the favor by taking me to this screening.<\/p>\n<p>I really thought this was fantastic. Tightly edited, well-written, keeps you engaged and intrigued and worried&#8230;.  John Goodman is fantastic.  The creepy kid (you may know him as Cassidy from Veronica Mars) is fantastic. The directing is wonderful.<\/p>\n<p>Smith is only going to make one more movie after this (seriously, that&#8217;s it) and when you see him talk (he did a Q&#038;A after this) he is SO beyond self-deprecating about his skills as a director. He&#8217;s wrong, really wrong, and that&#8217;s too bad.<\/p>\n<p>See this when you can. It&#8217;s well worth the $$.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh oh oh oh !!!! Oh, Kevin Smith fans, this movie is SO GREAT. You are going to LOVE IT when it comes out&#8230;in September? I think. Or October. It&#8217;s So.So.SO!! Good. And non-Kevin Smith fans? This is an outstanding &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2011\/06\/big_screen_red_.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":[8,15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flicks","category-recommending","category-watchin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503","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=1503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1706,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions\/1706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}