{"id":2639,"date":"2012-11-04T09:41:57","date_gmt":"2012-11-04T15:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/?p=2639"},"modified":"2012-11-12T07:59:07","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T13:59:07","slug":"big-screen-looper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2012\/11\/big-screen-looper.html","title":{"rendered":"Big Screen: Looper"},"content":{"rendered":"

I really liked this in the end but it feels pretty formulaic for about the first 20-30 minutes. It seems like they’re giving too much away and you think “how are they going to drag this out for 2 hours” but then a new element gets added in. So I thought it got a lot more complex as it went along and in the end there were characters I really cared about the outcome for. Emily Blunt is amazing.<\/p>\n

Did feel like Piper should have turned that role down or perhaps pointed out that the nudity was completely gratuitous (her character was clearly destitute without that).<\/p>\n

Plus JGL and the director were there for a post-movie Q&A (I saw it at a screening a month or so before it came out) and JGL was wearing bright green socks and being super cute. So perhaps that colored my reaction. PERHAPS. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I really liked this in the end but it feels pretty formulaic for about the first 20-30 minutes. It seems like they’re giving too much away and you think “how are they going to drag this out for 2 hours” … Continue reading →<\/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-2639","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\/2639","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=2639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2661,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639\/revisions\/2661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}