{"id":156,"date":"2006-07-10T10:02:35","date_gmt":"2006-07-10T10:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=156"},"modified":"2015-07-06T20:45:22","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T01:45:22","slug":"dvd_annapolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2006\/07\/dvd_annapolis.html","title":{"rendered":"DVD: Annapolis."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, fine, not a GOOD movie.<\/p>\n<p>But totally satisfying in so many ways.<br \/>\n<UL type=\"square\"><LI>The myth\/magic of military tradition = Good.<br \/>\n<LI>James Franco&#8217;s chisely cheekbones and cut, cut, cut abs = Good.<br \/>\n<LI>Fat, funny friend = Good.<br \/>\n<LI>Donny Wahlberg (Man, I miss <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0319960\/\">Boomtown<\/a>) = Good.<br \/>\n<LI>Small-town, blue-collar angst = Good.<br \/>\n<LI>Boxing and blood and boys with no shirts on = Good.<br \/>\n<LI>Tortured father\/son relationship = Good.<br \/>\n<LI>Sassy girl in commanding position = Good. <\/UL><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s not to like?<\/p>\n<p>Slammed as a wanna-be Officer &#038; A Gentleman (one of the greatest movies ever).  But some key plot points are quite different and make it not a direct copy.  Although I&#8217;m sure I would have enjoyed it either way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, fine, not a GOOD movie. But totally satisfying in so many ways. The myth\/magic of military tradition = Good. James Franco&#8217;s chisely cheekbones and cut, cut, cut abs = Good. Fat, funny friend = Good. Donny Wahlberg (Man, I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2006\/07\/dvd_annapolis.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","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\/156","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=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2930,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/2930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}