{"id":218,"date":"2006-10-16T17:27:56","date_gmt":"2006-10-16T17:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=218"},"modified":"2011-08-28T17:14:58","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T22:14:58","slug":"big_screen_the_-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2006\/10\/big_screen_the_-15.html","title":{"rendered":"Big Screen: The Departed."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow.  <strong>WOW.<\/strong>  Sooooo good.  Super intense.  Super violent, yet lots of comic relief; funny moments that had the whole theater laughing even during the most violent scenes.  Also hilarious was Markie Mark&#8217;s hair.  His acting was great, his hair was hilarious.<br \/>\nIn general:  well-acted, well-written, well-directed.<\/p>\n<p>My one caveat was ONE of the many twists at the end was just too &#8220;out of the blue&#8221;; the audience was completely in the dark and that felt a bit &#8220;unfair&#8221; or not a <em>legitimate <\/em>twist.  But it was one <em>tiny <\/em>moment and was made up for by the <em>next <\/em>one.<\/p>\n<p>I think Leo&#8217;s often a good actor but I&#8217;ve never been on the oh-he&#8217;s-so-cute bandwagon.  That said, there are two scenes in this movie during which he was just so very, very attractive.  During one of them (NOT the sex one), I found I was holding my breath&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So.SO.Good.  GO!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. WOW. Sooooo good. Super intense. Super violent, yet lots of comic relief; funny moments that had the whole theater laughing even during the most violent scenes. Also hilarious was Markie Mark&#8217;s hair. His acting was great, his hair was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2006\/10\/big_screen_the_-15.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-218","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\/218","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=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1907,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/1907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}