{"id":1042,"date":"2008-06-09T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/~frers\/cgi-bin\/blosxom.cgi\/reviews\/movies\/bruges.html"},"modified":"2010-01-22T17:12:10","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T16:12:10","slug":"in-bruges-%e2%80%93-surprise-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/?p=1042","title":{"rendered":"<em>In Bruges<\/em> \u2013 Surprise script."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Undecided about what movie we should watch and feeling a certain tendency to see something entertaining, we decided to try <em>In Bruges<\/em> even though we were neither convinced by the strange title (the German title translates as <q>Seeing Bruges and Dying<\/q>) nor by the taglines. The actors seemed nice enough, so we took the risk. I guess we weren\u2019t particularly happy with our decision during the first quarter of the movie. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0268199\/\" title=\"IMDb entry for the actor\">Collin Farrell<\/a> is good looking, of course, but he also made the impression of totally overacting his role. Slowly however, the story became clearer, and the contrast between Colin Farrell\u2019s hyper-active character and the calm beauty of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bruges\" title=\"wikipedia entry for the Belgian city\">Bruges<\/a> gained weight and texture. At that point in time, the movie became good. In the last quarter of the movie, another change in pace happened. The real villain appears, new turns and events shoot out from every corner and the movie becomes great: entertaining, fast paced and <em>very<\/em> funny (in a dark, British humor kind of way). To be recommended \u2013 the pictures of Bruges are quite beautiful, making a visit to the cinema a good choice.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0780536\/\"><abbr title=\"Internet Movie Database\">IMDb<\/abbr> entry<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/trailers\/focus_features\/inbruges\/\" title=\"QuickTime plugin required\">Trailer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Undecided about what movie we should watch and feeling a certain tendency to see something entertaining, we decided to try In Bruges even though we were neither convinced by the strange title (the German title translates as Seeing Bruges and Dying) nor by the taglines. The actors seemed nice enough, so we took the risk. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11],"tags":[120],"class_list":["post-1042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","category-review","tag-belgium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2102,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions\/2102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}