{"id":2627,"date":"2012-11-04T06:35:37","date_gmt":"2012-11-04T12:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/?p=2627"},"modified":"2012-11-04T09:53:09","modified_gmt":"2012-11-04T15:53:09","slug":"big-screen-arbitrage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2012\/11\/big-screen-arbitrage.html","title":{"rendered":"Big Screen: Arbitrage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, there are holes you could find in the plot after the fact.<\/p>\n<p>BUT I really liked this movie, both in the moment and afterward. It was super tense, pulled out almost to the breaking point, and there were some really excellent performances.<\/p>\n<p>I liked it even more after listening to director Nicholas Jarecki&#8217;s interview on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcrw.com\/etc\/programs\/tt\">The Treatment with Elvis Mitchell<\/a>, my favorite and most often listened to podcast. <\/p>\n<p>The one place I felt the movie really faltered was in the girlfriend\/Richard Gere relationship. Make us think he actually loves her and this film would be that much stronger. As it is, she&#8217;s too irrelevant for some of the plot points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, there are holes you could find in the plot after the fact. BUT I really liked this movie, both in the moment and afterward. It was super tense, pulled out almost to the breaking point, and there were some &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2012\/11\/big-screen-arbitrage.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":[8,16,15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flicks","category-podcasts","category-recommending","category-watchin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627","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=2627"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2648,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions\/2648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}