{"id":2574,"date":"2007-06-09T13:22:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-09T21:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2574"},"modified":"2007-06-09T13:22:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-09T21:22:00","slug":"2574","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2574","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">So my losing streak with summer blockbuster sequels<sup>1<\/sup> ended today with <i>Ocean&#8217;s Thirteen<\/i> &#8212; which, if not <i>quite<\/i> as good as the original<sup>2<\/sup>, is still much better than the misguided <i>Ocean&#8217;s Twelve<\/i> and is a whole lot of fun. I followed up the day&#8217;s double-feature with <i>Knocked Up<\/i>, which is raunchy and funny and sweet, and if there&#8217;s any justice in the world will make Seth Rogen and everyone else involved in a much bigger star. Highly recommended.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, but Regal Cinemas? Offering me a free movie ticket as a member of your Regal Crown Club and then telling me I can&#8217;t use it for any new movies, i.e. a movie that&#8217;s only been out for one or two weeks? Not cool. Especially when movies tend not to <i>stay<\/i> in your theaters more than a couple of weeks.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"1\"><sup>1<\/sup> Not <i>entirely<\/i> fair. <i>Shrek the Third<\/i> was sort of boring, but pretty innocuous and even sometimes cute.<\/p>\n<p><sup>2<\/sup> No, not the <i>original<\/i> original. The 2001 <i>Ocean&#8217;s Eleven<\/i>.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So my losing streak with summer blockbuster sequels1 ended today with Ocean&#8217;s Thirteen &#8212; which, if not quite as good as the original2, is still much better than the misguided Ocean&#8217;s Twelve and is a whole lot of fun. I followed up the day&#8217;s double-feature with Knocked Up, which is raunchy and funny and sweet, &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2574\">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":[238],"class_list":["post-2574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574"}],"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=2574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}