{"id":38,"date":"2006-03-14T08:45:40","date_gmt":"2006-03-14T08:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=38"},"modified":"2025-04-05T10:10:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T15:10:31","slug":"big_screen_syri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2006\/03\/big_screen_syri.html","title":{"rendered":"Big Screen:  Syriana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure how George Clooney winds up with best supporting out of this. It&#8217;s more of a bit role. Or &#8220;intermittent&#8221; at the most. I love Clooney but I don&#8217;t see the award winner here. I guess they really did feel they had to give him SOMETHING!<\/p>\n<p>Uneven. Some messages clear = US government will seek to control oil situation, no matter the cost. No matter whether it will keep that world backwards in terms of women&#8217;s rights, etc. Other parts not so clear. The Matt Damon storyline achieved what? Just human interest? A more human connection to the Prince?<\/p>\n<p>Good. Thought provoking. But not great. &#8220;Good night, Good Luck&#8221; = much better movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure how George Clooney winds up with best supporting out of this. It&#8217;s more of a bit role. Or &#8220;intermittent&#8221; at the most. I love Clooney but I don&#8217;t see the award winner here. I guess they really did &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2006\/03\/big_screen_syri.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-38","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\/38","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=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3774,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/3774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}