{"id":470,"date":"2007-06-27T13:27:29","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T13:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=470"},"modified":"2015-07-12T09:29:07","modified_gmt":"2015-07-12T14:29:07","slug":"dvd_chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/06\/dvd_chance.html","title":{"rendered":"DVD: Chance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written and directed by, and starring, Amber Benson.  Also starring James Marsters!!   Has some very typical &#8220;first movie\/low budget\/indie amateur&#8221; effects: characters speak directly to the camera, the lighting is bizarre, timeline is the furthest from linear it could be, character development is touched on very lightly, etc.  But there are a few charming moments, a couple sweet scenes.  And the actors not only interact nicely, but the main two do a particularly good job of NOT being reminiscent at all of who you are expecting them to be together.  Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvdtimes.co.uk\/content.php?contentid=11377\">random (lengthy) online review<\/a> if you&#8217;d like.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I must be on a &#8220;Tara&#8221; kick as I&#8217;ve been reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/06\/fantasy_ghosts.html\">her writing <\/a>as well:  Totally sucked in by Ghosts of Albion!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written and directed by, and starring, Amber Benson. Also starring James Marsters!! Has some very typical &#8220;first movie\/low budget\/indie amateur&#8221; effects: characters speak directly to the camera, the lighting is bizarre, timeline is the furthest from linear it could be, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/06\/dvd_chance.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-470","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\/470","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=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3094,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/3094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}