{"id":769,"date":"2010-02-27T14:44:14","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T19:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/?p=769"},"modified":"2011-04-16T00:18:48","modified_gmt":"2011-04-16T04:18:48","slug":"9-5-cashback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2010\/9-5-cashback\/","title":{"rendered":"9.5 Cashback"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Every minute counts.”\u00a0 This film is “stop and smell the roses” taken to a literal level.\u00a0 The characters are great – like in Extract, normal folks blown up just a little bit, each one given enough depth so you can warm up to them.\u00a0 You’ll have to be able to tolerate a fairly pervasive nudity theme – at one point I was wondering “Am I watching Choke”? – but the protagonist, as well as the film, has a heart of gold.\u00a0 And a beautiful unique style.\u00a0 I won’t say any more, check it out.<\/p>\n

\"CASHBACK\"<\/p>\n

Another (non-)romantic comedy worth mentioning is “(500) Days of Summer” and of course you should see it, it’s mostly the camera fawning over Zooey Daschanel, what is not to love?\u00a0 What a guilty pleasure.\u00a0 But don’t bother with the Coen Brothers’ latest, A Serious Man – seriously, guys?\u00a0 Cut the art house b.s. and get on with excelling again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Every minute counts.”\u00a0 This film is “stop and smell the roses” taken to a literal level.\u00a0 The characters are great – like in Extract, normal folks blown up just a little bit, each one given enough depth so you can warm up to them.\u00a0 You’ll have to be able to tolerate a fairly pervasive nudity … Continue reading 9.5 Cashback<\/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-769","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-cp","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":275,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2008\/90-no-country-for-old-men\/","url_meta":{"origin":769,"position":0},"title":"9.0 No Country For Old Men","author":"m","date":"February 28, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Bring your expectations of standard Hollywood conventions to this movie and you'll be left hanging in a big way. 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