{"id":11009,"date":"2013-12-31T22:49:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T03:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=11009"},"modified":"2013-12-31T22:49:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T03:49:06","slug":"a-year-at-the-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=11009","title":{"rendered":"A year at the movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/list\/uvtIbPbC4lQ\/?start=1&#038;view=detail&#038;sort=listorian:desc&#038;defaults=1&#038;lists=uvtIbPbC4lQ&#038;scb=0.7799235216807574\">I watched 107 movies this year<\/a>. Fully a quarter of those have been in this past month alone.<\/p>\n<p>I find it difficult to pull together &#8220;best of the year&#8221; lists. I mean, some of the most <i>fun<\/i> I had watching movies this year was with films like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=10950\">Equilibrium<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=10150\">Mongolian Death Worm<\/a>, and I&#8217;m not going to claim either of those were <i>good<\/i> movies.<\/p>\n<p>There were a lot of very good movies on my list, and even a few from this calendar year like <i>Captain Phillips<\/i>, <i>Gravity<\/i>, <i>Before Midnight<\/i>, <i>Upstream Color<\/i>, and <i>The World&#8217;s End<\/i>. (I&#8217;d include <i>Frances Ha<\/i>, but I think technically that first came out at the end of 2012.)<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, the best movie I&#8217;ve seen has definitely been <i>Beckett<\/i>, with terrific performances from both Peter O&#8217;Toole and Richard Burton. The worst, on the other hand, was easily <i>Jonah Hex<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>I saw a few really great movies this year, a few really terrible ones, a few really terrible ones that were made great by live-tweeting them with friends, and the rest kind of a normal mix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched 107 movies this year. Fully a quarter of those have been in this past month alone. I find it difficult to pull together &#8220;best of the year&#8221; lists. I mean, some of the most fun I had watching movies this year was with films like Equilibrium and Mongolian Death Worm, and I&#8217;m not &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=11009\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,28],"class_list":["post-11009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-movies","tag-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11010,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11009\/revisions\/11010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}