{"id":1656,"date":"2003-09-05T03:13:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-05T03:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/~frers\/cgi-bin\/blosxom.cgi\/reviews\/movies\/8mile.html"},"modified":"2010-01-24T13:09:44","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T12:09:44","slug":"could-it-be-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/?p=1656","title":{"rendered":"Could it be better?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It took me a while but now I have seen <i>8 Mile<\/i>, directed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000436\/\" title=\"IMDb entry for Curtis Hanson\">Curtis Hanson<\/a> (who also directed Wonder Boys and L.A. Confidential) and featuring Eminem. I was positively surprised by the funny and witty dialogues. Luckily, there are no special effects and stuff like that &#8211; instead it&#8217;s a good story with good characters and, of course, lots of good music. Even if you&#8217;re not into HipHop or Eminem you could like the soundtrack. There is room for passion and some sex (&#8216;we&#8217; have Kim Basinger and a really gorgeous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0543383\/\" title=\"IMDb entry for Taryn Manning\">Taryn Manning<\/a> in this movie). Fans of sports movies can breathe the same exhilaration they experience before and in Rocky&#8217;s final fights when Eminem enters the stage for rap battles against the bad guys. The ending is quite open and un-Hollywoodesque. I definitely recommend this movie, even if the user rating on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0298203\/\">IMDb<\/a> is only 6.9 of 10. Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/trailers\/universal\/8_mile.html\" title=\"Trailer hosted by Apple - QuickTime plug-in required\">trailer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took me a while but now I have seen 8 Mile, directed by Curtis Hanson (who also directed Wonder Boys and L.A. Confidential) and featuring Eminem. I was positively surprised by the funny and witty dialogues. Luckily, there are no special effects and stuff like that &#8211; instead it&#8217;s a good story with good [&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":[441,171,440,86,442],"class_list":["post-1656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","category-review","tag-curtis-hanson","tag-documentary","tag-eminem","tag-music","tag-tarry-manning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656","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=1656"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2537,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions\/2537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}