{"id":572,"date":"2003-06-20T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2003-06-20T20:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2003\/06\/20\/6-20-03\/"},"modified":"2006-03-22T01:38:59","modified_gmt":"2006-03-22T09:38:59","slug":"2-fast-2-furious-2-brainless-2-boring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2003\/06\/20\/2-fast-2-furious-2-brainless-2-boring\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Fast 2 Furious, 2 brainless 2 boring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the movies Wednesday night. I saw the first 35 minutes of &#8220;<strong>2 Fast 2 Furious<\/strong>&#8220;. It was 2 brainless 2 boring. The producer\/mechanic forgot that they needed a script, forgot that a buddy film needs buddies, a cops and robbers film needs cops (and robbers), a good-guy bad-guy movie needs good guys AND bad guys. Either the movie was playing to a fantastically advanced moral and ethical subtext, or maybe it was just stupid. I can only watch a speedometer rev from 100 to 160 in Furious-vision so many times before my brain goes numb. (Do these guys -ever- decelerate?) I&#8217;d like to live in their world; No matter how fast you&#8217;re driving, or even if you&#8217;re not driving at all, all you have to do to underscore your point is is downshift forcefully.<\/p>\n<p>I walked out of 2 Fast 2 Furious and in on <strong>Dumb and Dumberer<\/strong>. The title doesn&#8217;t disappoint. Except for some ridiculousness issues, it was moderately mindlessly funny. An example of ridiculousness: Harry smeared chocolate all over a bathroom and the owner thought it was poop. A few scenes later, the supposedly intelligent owner had cleaned it up but apparently not figured out that it wasn&#8217;t poop. But hey, it IS called &#8220;Dumb and Dumberer&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I also snuck in on the last 10 minutes of Bruce Almighty. Sappy, stupid.   And I saw the last 20 minutes of Finding Nemo. I couldn&#8217;t get a good read on the film from just the ending&#8230; Disneyesque?<\/p>\n<p>Here is a great take on The Matrix Reloaded. From <a href=\"http:\/\/ter.air0day.com\/index.php?script=matrixreloaded\">http:\/\/ter.air0day.com\/index.php?script=matrixreloaded<\/a>.  Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/~jwz\">jwz<\/a> for the pointer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the movies Wednesday night. I saw the first 35 minutes of &#8220;2 Fast 2 Furious&#8220;. It was 2 brainless 2 boring. The producer\/mechanic forgot that they needed a script, forgot that a buddy film needs buddies, a cops and robbers film needs cops (and robbers), a good-guy bad-guy movie needs good guys [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}