{"id":16804,"date":"2018-01-15T13:37:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T18:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/?p=16804"},"modified":"2021-10-31T13:39:21","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T18:39:21","slug":"screenings-chicago-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/?p=16804","title":{"rendered":"Screenings: Chicago (2002)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">watched Jan 15, 2018<br>spitballarmy&#8217;s review published on <a href=\"https:\/\/boxd.it\/nJMmh\">Letterboxd<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>6.8<br>[blu-ray]<\/p><p>The music is energetic and fun with creative wordplay, even if sounding if all of it is cut from the same oompah\/striptease mold. And the intercutting between &#8220;real life&#8221; and &#8220;on stage&#8221; is a clever concept that adds depth to the story, but after a few musical numbers, that concept feels like a retold joke that expects as big a laugh as the first time. The real star of this show is the lighting and set design.<\/p><p>The 2010-issued Miramax blu-ray I viewed had a graininess unexpected from a 2002 film, and looked barely better than a high-quality VHS tape.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>watched Jan 15, 2018spitballarmy&#8217;s review published on Letterboxd: 6.8[blu-ray] The music is energetic and fun with creative wordplay, even if sounding if all of it is cut from the same oompah\/striptease mold. And the intercutting between &#8220;real life&#8221; and &#8220;on stage&#8221; is a clever concept that adds depth to the story, but after a few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,231],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-screenings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oc9-4n2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16805,"href":"https:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16804\/revisions\/16805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}