{"id":1168,"date":"2006-06-12T22:29:51","date_gmt":"2006-06-12T21:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/?p=1168"},"modified":"2006-06-12T22:29:51","modified_gmt":"2006-06-12T21:29:51","slug":"review-man-about-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/?p=1168","title":{"rendered":"Review: Man About Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being the first country for a movie release (besides a small film festival in the States) is either a major scoop, or something smells fishy. In this case, it must be a bit of both. This movie is not god awfully bad that it will be released directly to DVD and skipping theatrical release. It will probably do a bit of business in the indy circuit. But truth be told, the quality isn&#8217;t that high either.<br \/>\nThis movie is an introspective Ben Affleck vehicle, but somehow you&#8217;re still left feeling empty afterwards. Most things don&#8217;t make that much sense (inconsistent character building), and trying to marry three story lines might not be such a hard job for others, but in this case, it&#8217;s pretty chaotic.<br \/>\nMike Binder&#8217;s previous outing as writer\/director (The Upside of Anger) wasn&#8217;t something to write home about, but still slightly entertaining. This one is a few grades short of that recommendation.5+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being the first country for a movie release (besides a small film festival in the States) is either a major scoop, or something smells fishy. In this case, it must be a bit of both. This movie is not god awfully bad that it will be released directly to DVD and skipping theatrical release. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}