{"id":191,"date":"2003-02-27T23:42:22","date_gmt":"2003-02-27T23:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"tag:owlfish.com,2004:colinweblog.20030227234222"},"modified":"2003-06-30T23:21:00","modified_gmt":"2003-06-30T23:21:00","slug":"27022003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/2003\/02\/27022003\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/Title?0299658\">Chicago<\/a> tonight, after looking forward to seeing it for some time.  It&#8217;s an entertaining, fun movie with some good dance numbers and a nice flow.  It&#8217;s also a little disappointing.<\/p>\n<p>I was hoping for something on a par with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/Title?0203009\">Moulin Rouge<\/a>, and while Chicago is a good watch, it isn&#8217;t that good.  I think part of the problem for me was having no sympathy for the main characters.  I wanted to know how it ended, but didn&#8217;t really care one way or the other.<\/p>\n<p>Catherine Zeta-Jones is superb, a great performance and a good presence on the screen, but Ren\u00e9e Zellweger was disappointing.  The rest of the cast did a fairly good job.  It&#8217;s possible that a second viewing, where the story would distract less from the musical elements, may improve my rating of the film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally saw Chicago tonight, after looking forward to seeing it for some time. It&#8217;s an entertaining, fun movie with some good dance numbers and a nice flow. It&#8217;s also a little disappointing. I was hoping for something on a par with Moulin Rouge, and while Chicago is a good watch, it isn&#8217;t that good. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}