{"id":6676,"date":"2010-02-13T19:28:22","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T00:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=6676"},"modified":"2010-02-13T19:31:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T00:31:13","slug":"what-makes-a-good-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=6676","title":{"rendered":"What makes a good movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We watched Kathryn Bigelow&#8217;s <em>The Hurt Locker<\/em> the other night and I&#8217;m still thinking about it. I&#8217;m not much interested in violent films or war movies per se, but have to admit there was something tangible and intimate about this portrayal of Iraq that is haunting me still. We lent it to my neighbor and she said the next day, &#8220;Best picture? I dunno.&#8221; But the more we spoke about it the more she said she too was haunted by the main character and the cereal aisle and how absurd war is and how truly fucked up being a soldier then being a civilian must be. I highly recommend the movie to anyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We watched Kathryn Bigelow&#8217;s The Hurt Locker the other night and I&#8217;m still thinking about it. I&#8217;m not much interested in violent films or war movies per se, but have to admit there was something tangible and intimate about this portrayal of Iraq that is haunting me still. We lent it to my neighbor and she said the next day, &#8220;Best picture? I dunno.&#8221; But the more we spoke about it the more she said&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-1JG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6676"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6678,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6676\/revisions\/6678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}