{"id":44,"date":"2002-10-12T21:33:40","date_gmt":"2002-10-12T21:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/archives\/2002\/10\/12\/101-reykjavk\/"},"modified":"2002-10-12T21:33:40","modified_gmt":"2002-10-12T21:33:40","slug":"101-reykjavk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/archives\/2002\/10\/12\/101-reykjavk\/","title":{"rendered":"101 Reykjav&#237;k"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I joined the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heffers.co.uk\/bobuk\/scripts\/welcome.jsp?brand=BOBUK&#038;sub=Heffers\">Heffers<\/a> video club today, I got a bit fed up with Blockbuster on Mill Road only stocking the current Hollywood stuff.  As my first video I got <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0237993\">101 Rekjav&#237;k<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>About all I can say is it passed a couple of hours tolerably.  Like the life of the main character it doesn&#8217;t seem to go anywhere and I was quite surprised when I read the IMDb entry to find that it&#8217;s supposed to be a comedy.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I was just in the wrong mood for it.  I tend to be quite forgiving of films I don&#8217;t like, prepared to give them another chance.  The only exceptions so far have been <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0120461\">Volcano<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0119081\">Event Horizon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Volcano was the last film I saw in the UK before going <a href=\"\/Zintro.html\">South<\/a> and was one of those group decisions, where you all end up seeing the film none of you wanted to see.<\/p>\n<p>Event Horizon was just unforgivably bad.  If they had just copied a bit more of some of the films it&#8217;s derived from it would have been better, or at least so-bad-it&#8217;s-funny.  Instead it was just dire.  People walked out in the middle of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I joined the Heffers video club today, I got a bit fed up with Blockbuster on Mill Road only stocking the current Hollywood stuff. As my first video I got 101 Rekjav&#237;k. About all I can say is it passed a couple of hours tolerably. Like the life of the main character it doesn&#8217;t seem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}