{"id":1427,"date":"2011-08-17T09:27:27","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T13:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2016-04-30T20:12:46","modified_gmt":"2016-05-01T00:12:46","slug":"9-0-the-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2011\/9-0-the-island\/","title":{"rendered":"9.0 The Island"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A visually delicious action movie with a surprisingly solid scifi storyline. I didn’t expect much and had to keep picking my jaw off the floor.<\/p>\n

NOTE: From here on out I’m trying to keep my reviews simple and spoiler-free. Even rating the movie invites the Heisenberg principle, and I won’t abide further spoilage. In this case, this also affects the screenshot I chose – there were better ones but they violate my ten inch that you enter the movie with a clean slate. Critics suck! You be the judge! :P<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A visually delicious action movie with a surprisingly solid scifi storyline. I didn’t expect much and had to keep picking my jaw off the floor. NOTE: From here on out I’m trying to keep my reviews simple and spoiler-free. Even rating the movie invites the Heisenberg principle, and I won’t abide further spoilage. In this … Continue reading 9.0 The Island<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,4,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-only-cool-movies","category-rants-and-raves","category-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M0Zg-n1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":89,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2003\/rock-me-stompadaeus\/","url_meta":{"origin":1427,"position":0},"title":"9.5 Pulse","author":"m","date":"August 31, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"I just realized, several toe-tapping hours after the end of this movie-trip-around-the-world, that there wasn't a single spoken word of English in it! 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