{"id":737,"date":"2003-08-11T13:01:09","date_gmt":"2003-08-11T13:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-737.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"attack-of-the-clones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2003\/08\/11\/attack-of-the-clones\/","title":{"rendered":"Attack of the Clones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00005RDPR\/legenofthesun-21\/ref=nosim\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2003\/08\/clones.jpg\" alt=\"Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones\" align=\"left\" style=\"border:none;margin-right:7px;margin-bottom:4px;\" \/><\/a>Feeling, as I am, sick and sorry for myself, I thought I would slap something mindless and fun on the DVD player and zone out for a while.  I made the mistake of watching <i>Attack of the Clones<\/i> again.  I hadn&#8217;t seen it since it came out on DVD, and now I remember why: it&#8217;s a cock-awful pile of bantha poo.<\/p>\n<p>I could go on and on about the crapness of the script, acting, direction, but it&#8217;s all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.selfmadecritic.com\/attackoftheclones.html\">been done before<\/a>, and frankly, it&#8217;s too bad even to waste more energy on lambasting it.<\/p>\n<p>Next up: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000067A7W\/legenofthesun-21\/ref=nosim\/\"><i>Speed<\/i><\/a>.  Keanu is <em>da man<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> Ah, much better.  Watching <i>Speed<\/i> just served to emphasise how completely <em>devoid<\/em> of originality <i>Clones<\/i> is.  For a film so fantastic, so filled with action, and so bursting with special effects, that&#8217;s good trick to pull off.<\/p>\n<p>Next up:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00004CXMT\/legenofthesun-21\/ref=nosim\/\"><i>Dirty Harry<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feeling, as I am, sick and sorry for myself, I thought I would slap something mindless and fun on the DVD player and zone out for a while. I made the mistake of watching Attack of the Clones again. I hadn&#8217;t seen it since it came out on DVD, and now I remember why: it&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2003\/08\/11\/attack-of-the-clones\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Attack of the Clones&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}