{"id":1253,"date":"2004-08-13T23:52:49","date_gmt":"2004-08-13T23:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1253.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:16","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:16","slug":"mad-dog-and-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2004\/08\/13\/mad-dog-and-glory\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Mad Dog And Glory<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m left with the overwhelming impression that some studio executive had this great idea for a film title, and commissioned a script based on it.  Enterprising screenwriter (Richard Price) has an interesting little script at the ready about a police photographer who saves the life of a mobster.  Screenwriter figures that he can make a fast buck if he gives the main character the nickname &#8220;Mad Dog&#8221; (he&#8217;s an overweight, mild-mannered guy with the soul of an artist, but hey, it&#8217;s ironic!), and changes the name of the cocktail waitress to &#8220;Glory&#8221;.  Ka-ching!<\/p>\n<p>Goodness knows that the quality of a title is no indicator of the film it belongs to, but this one just bothers me.  It&#8217;s <em>such<\/em> a good title, that the sheer <em>indifference<\/em> of the film sticks in my throat.  De Niro and Murray are both flat, and Uma Thurman is plain annoying as the pitiful innocent who has fallen in with a bad crowd.  There&#8217;s a subtle twist right at the end that casts the plot and Murray&#8217;s character in a new light, but it&#8217;s so underplayed that you could blink and miss it.  This ought to have been so much better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m left with the overwhelming impression that some studio executive had this great idea for a film title, and commissioned a script based on it. Enterprising screenwriter (Richard Price) has an interesting little script at the ready about a police photographer who saves the life of a mobster. Screenwriter figures that he can make a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-1253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films_2_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}