{"id":1501,"date":"2004-11-23T00:47:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-23T00:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/~frers\/cgi-bin\/blosxom.cgi\/reviews\/movies\/the_cooler.html"},"modified":"2010-01-23T02:49:35","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T01:49:35","slug":"without-nostalgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/?p=1501","title":{"rendered":"Without nostalgia."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week Lars and I saw <em>The Cooler<\/em> (a movie from 2003) in Darmstadt&#8217;s Broadway movie theater &#8211; the acting (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000513\/\" title=\"IMDb entry - he is known for his roles in Fargo, Wag the Dog, Magnolia&#8230;\">William H. Macy<\/a>, Alec Baldwin, and Maria Bello) was excellent. Acting, script and camera together produced a movie that showed us the decline of the old school Las Vegas casino. This kind of casino, with its gambling, its entertainers, its crime, and its sex appeal makes a wonderful setting for a movie, as has been demonstrated by many classics &#8211; what I liked most about this film is that it shows all of the attractiveness and seduction that emanates from this particular place, but it also shows that it&#8217;s an anachronistic place in a world where the real money, and real crimes are made by different people, and different businesses. A movie not only for casino aficionados.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0318374\/\">IMDb entry<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/trailers\/lions_gate\/the_cooler.html\" title=\"QuickTime plugin required\">Trailer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week Lars and I saw The Cooler (a movie from 2003) in Darmstadt&#8217;s Broadway movie theater &#8211; the acting (William H. Macy, Alec Baldwin, and Maria Bello) was excellent. Acting, script and camera together produced a movie that showed us the decline of the old school Las Vegas casino. This kind of casino, with [&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":[355,356,357],"class_list":["post-1501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","category-review","tag-alec-baldwin","tag-maria-bello","tag-william-h-macy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501","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=1501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2358,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions\/2358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}