{"id":197,"date":"2004-04-23T00:51:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-22T19:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=197"},"modified":"2010-12-21T11:10:15","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T06:10:15","slug":"punisher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=197","title":{"rendered":"Punisher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know, The Punisher wasn&#8217;t all that bad a movie.  Admittedly, I&#8217;m not trying to wrap my brain around any of the characters, and I hope to God there isn&#8217;t a sequel attempt&#8230;but it was what I was in the mood for.  The bad guys were bad.  One of them was even gay (this is how you know a real bad guy, right?  Excuse me&#8230;what decade is it again?)  The good guy was also pretty bad.  The brutality was brutal.  Not Jesus-beating brutal, but &#8220;throwing through walls and hitting with toilets&#8221; brutal.  There was a nipple, but it was strip club nipple.  There were brief attempts at character development&#8230;but they were all quickly and mercifully aborted when more violence came knocking.  All in all, a worthwhile viewing&#8230;but probably not a good first date flick.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty excited for this summer:  Alien vs Predator, Chronicles of Riddick, Spider Man II, Dodge Ball (which looks like a nightmare waiting to happen), I robot, Resident Evil Apocalypse, &#8230; there will be lots of brain cell killing goodness to go around.<\/p>\n<p>Still no job.  House not sold yet, though people have looked at it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, The Punisher wasn&#8217;t all that bad a movie. Admittedly, I&#8217;m not trying to wrap my brain around any of the characters, and I hope to God there isn&#8217;t a sequel attempt&#8230;but it was what I was in the mood for. The bad guys were bad. One of them was even gay (this is <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=197\">Punisher<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[38,26,135],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2264,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/2264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}