{"id":24,"date":"2002-05-16T13:43:41","date_gmt":"2002-05-16T17:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/?p=13"},"modified":"2011-04-16T00:25:50","modified_gmt":"2011-04-16T04:25:50","slug":"love-story-with-blasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2002\/love-story-with-blasters\/","title":{"rendered":"[9.5] Attack of the Clones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><image SRC=\"http:\/\/thedigitalmachine.com\/images\/Episode2Battle.jpg\"><\/image><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I dug it.  Achieving suspension of disbelief has become nearly impossible for the average viewer, given the hype surrounding Star Wars TM copyright Lucasfilms all rights reserved blah blah blah.  Transcend the cynicism and see this as a good story that ties together an epic saga.  This is the movie that gave me the first sense of a huge interconnected <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.starwars.com\/databank\/ep2.html\">Star Wars world<\/a>.  Kinda cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I dug it. Achieving suspension of disbelief has become nearly impossible for the average viewer, given the hype surrounding Star Wars TM copyright Lucasfilms all rights reserved blah blah blah. Transcend the cynicism and see this as a good story that ties together an epic saga. This is the movie that gave me the first &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2002\/love-story-with-blasters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[9.5] Attack of the Clones<\/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":[9,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-only-cool-movies","category-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M0Zg-o","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":250,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2007\/flea-market-wars\/","url_meta":{"origin":24,"position":0},"title":"Flea Market Wars","author":"m","date":"July 3, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Earth Tatooine It was like being in Mos Eisley itself! 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