{"id":570,"date":"2006-01-03T20:14:38","date_gmt":"2006-01-04T01:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=570"},"modified":"2006-01-03T23:00:34","modified_gmt":"2006-01-04T04:00:34","slug":"c-colon-pound-pound-pound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=570","title":{"rendered":"C-colon-pound-pound-pound"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier today, Deezo<\/a> included a mention of the chick flick “Must Love Dogs” in his holiday wrap-up. I commented on the remarkable ability of John Cusack to make almost any chick flick semi-bearable for a guy to sit through. Even by playing the same character in every chick flick he’s been in, Cusack still has the ability to add a comedic element that, while maybe not making it “okay” for guys to watch, it certainly makes for a viable option when the woman wants something mushy in the DVD player. (That doesn’t include 32 sequels and\/or a phallic knockoff of a nursery rhyme in it’s title.) Incidentally, IMDB<\/a> claims that Cusack was given the opportunity to tweak his character’s lines a bit, an opportunity which he took full advantage of, to the tune of 35 pages of rewritten script.<\/p>\n

Though that theory enough wasn’t enough to warrant a post, but it got me thinking.
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\nThere’s a scene in “Must Love Dogs” where Diane Lane, who gives the impression of the typical “I have a wireless laptop sitting on my kitchen counter, but I really see computers as a nuisance” character, sits down and hammers out some templated personal ads, perfectly Photoshopping her face into another woman’s body with two or three clicks, and all in the same application. <\/p>\n

It’s probably highly geeky of me to notice things like that days after I’ve seen a movie, but it still makes me laugh to see the ease with which movie characters use computers. It’s slightly more realistic than in the past where a dozen or so keystrokes could crack a government mainframe, but it’s still funny enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier today, Deezo included a mention of the chick flick “Must Love Dogs” in his holiday wrap-up. I commented on the remarkable ability of John Cusack to make almost any chick flick semi-bearable for a guy to sit through. Even by playing the same character in every chick flick he’s been in, Cusack still has … Continue reading C-colon-pound-pound-pound<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}