{"id":241,"date":"2005-06-13T18:46:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-14T02:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=241"},"modified":"2007-12-30T16:06:14","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T00:06:14","slug":"mr-cranky-movie-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=241","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Cranky movie reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrcranky.com\/\">MrCranky.com<\/a> has never reviewed a movie he likes.  His rating scale from best to worst is<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>1 bomb<\/strong>  = Almost tolerable<\/p>\n<p><strong>2 bombs<\/strong> = Consistently annoying<\/p>\n<p><strong>3 bombs<\/strong> = Will require therapy after viewing<\/p>\n<p><strong>4 bombs<\/strong> = As good as a poke in the eye with a sharp stick<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ka-BOOM!<\/strong> = So godawful that it ruptured the very fabric of space and time with the sheer overpowering force of its mediocrity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nuke<\/strong> = Proof that Jesus died in vain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some choice bits from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrcranky.com\/movies\/starwarsepisode3revengeofthesith.html\">his review<\/a> of the lastest Star Wars movie, Revenge of the Sith (he gave it 3 bombs):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ultimately, Anakin chooses the dark side because it has a better health care plan.<\/p>\n<p>If George Lucas has a filmmaking philosophy, it goes something like this: drama + special effects = more drama. By this point in the series, however, audiences have pretty much seen it all, and the only way Lucas could get anyone&#8217;s attention would be to crash the nitroglycerine planet directly into the enriched uranium planet.<\/p>\n<p>To say that &#8220;Revenge of the Sith&#8221; is disappointing, given that some of us have invested almost 30 years of our lives in this franchise, is like saying that Catholics were a little sad when the Pope died.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MrCranky.com has never reviewed a movie he likes. His rating scale from best to worst is 1 bomb = Almost tolerable 2 bombs = Consistently annoying 3 bombs = Will require therapy after viewing 4 bombs = As good as&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=241\" class=\"readmore\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mr. Cranky movie reviews<\/span><span class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","content-layout-full"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}