{"id":1437,"date":"2006-12-24T23:58:08","date_gmt":"2006-12-24T23:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1437"},"modified":"2006-12-24T23:58:08","modified_gmt":"2006-12-24T23:58:08","slug":"feelgood_movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1437","title":{"rendered":"Feel-Good Movie Of The Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

A friend of mine and I, in celebration of the holiday season, went to see the rather bloody Apocalypto<\/a><\/i> today. Mel Gibson may be an anti-Semitic crank with a drinking problem, but I’ll give the man credit: he can make a damn entertaining film. Apocalypto<\/i> has a simple plot, but it’s briskly told and many of the visuals are stunning in their sweep. If you want look for a deeper meaning (perhaps something about how the decline of civilizations can be foretold by their use of manipulative spectacle)<\/a>, that can be found as well. <\/p>\n

The theater was nearly empty, which was both pleasant and a little eerie. There wasn’t as much of a communal viewing experience, but there were also fewer distractions (if I had heard a baby crying in the audience during this film, I would have called social services on the spot).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A friend of mine and I, in celebration of the holiday season, went to see the rather bloody Apocalypto today. Mel Gibson may be an anti-Semitic crank with a drinking problem, but I’ll give the man credit: he can make a damn entertaining film. Apocalypto has a simple plot, but it’s briskly told and many […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-nb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}