{"id":2550,"date":"2012-07-10T17:08:25","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T22:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/?p=2550"},"modified":"2012-08-06T18:01:26","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T23:01:26","slug":"big-screen-people-like-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2012\/07\/big-screen-people-like-us.html","title":{"rendered":"Big Screen: People Like Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The problem with this movie exists at the very deepest level of plot: if these characters are brother &#038; sister, they can&#8217;t wind up together and all their great chemistry is to no effect. <\/p>\n<p>So while there were things I liked and some nice performances, it&#8217;s ultimately not what the viewer of a romance really wants to see. And the romance that does feature as a B-plot was shown so minutely in the film that you never really get to root for it.<\/p>\n<p><em>I don&#8217;t think I know a single other person who saw this. It was crazy hot that day, and I can&#8217;t afford to turn on my air conditioning, and it was the only movie starting within the next 30 minutes. Also: Chris Pine is yummy.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem with this movie exists at the very deepest level of plot: if these characters are brother &#038; sister, they can&#8217;t wind up together and all their great chemistry is to no effect. So while there were things I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2012\/07\/big-screen-people-like-us.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2550","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\/2550","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2550"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2608,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions\/2608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}