{"id":2641,"date":"2012-11-04T09:44:57","date_gmt":"2012-11-04T15:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/?p=2641"},"modified":"2012-11-12T07:59:01","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T13:59:01","slug":"big-screen-killer-joe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2012\/11\/big-screen-killer-joe.html","title":{"rendered":"Big Screen: Killer Joe"},"content":{"rendered":"

I felt degraded and abused enough–and perhaps unable to ever eat chicken again–after this movie that I just cannot recommend it.<\/p>\n

Sure, Matthew McConaughey does his role very well. So what? Sometimes that’s not enough to make a movie worth sitting through. (See “There Will Be Blood.”<\/a> Career performance from DDL does not make that a movie I ever, ever, ever want to see again.)<\/p>\n

Also: Every Single Person in this movie is a shallow jerk. You have no one to root for! NO ONE! Even the presumed naive victim just seems dumb, not wounded or someone you should care about.<\/p>\n

Icky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I felt degraded and abused enough–and perhaps unable to ever eat chicken again–after this movie that I just cannot recommend it. Sure, Matthew McConaughey does his role very well. So what? Sometimes that’s not enough to make a movie worth … 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-2641","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\/2641","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=2641"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2660,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641\/revisions\/2660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}