{"id":528,"date":"2002-04-29T23:27:17","date_gmt":"2002-04-30T07:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/04\/29\/life-or-something-like-it\/"},"modified":"2019-11-27T08:07:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T16:07:34","slug":"life-or-something-like-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/04\/29\/life-or-something-like-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Life or Something Like It"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16241,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/B00006G8JD\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260314052323\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/B00006G8JD\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/B00006G8JD\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-09 03:28:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-12 11:07:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 23:30:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 23:30:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16242,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/us.imdb.com\\\/Name?Jolie,+Angelina&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/us.imdb.com\\\/Name?Jolie,%20Angelina&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16243,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/B00003CXZ1\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8485,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.komotv.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20090105214002\\\/http:\\\/\\\/komotv.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 10:31:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 02:56:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 02:56:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16244,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/6305283516\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/6305283516\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16245,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/B00003CXCI\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/B00003CXCI\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14696,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/0792838467\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/0792838467\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16246,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/us.imdb.com\\\/Name?Burns,+Edward+%28I%29&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/us.imdb.com\\\/Name?Burns,%20Edward%20(I)&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Candice and I had been talking for about a week now about trying to take some time out of our schedules to wander down and see a movie, and finally got the chance last night. It was Candice&#8217;s turn to pick, so we ended up watching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00006G8JD\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: Life or Something Like It\">Life or Something Like It<\/a>, with <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Name?Jolie,+Angelina\" title=\"IMDB page for Angelina Jolie\">Angelina Jolie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While it wasn&#8217;t anything amazing, it was certainly a very cute little romantic comedy, and I think it might be the best role I&#8217;ve seen Jolie in (and a very welcome change from the dreck that was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00003CXZ1\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"'Tomb Raider' on DVD\">Tomb Raider<\/a>). An enjoyable way to spend 90 minutes, at the very least.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nOne of the most entertaining things about <em>LoSLI<\/em> was that it was set and (mostly) filmed here in Seattle. Jolie&#8217;s character is a news anchor, so they got the cooperation of one of the local television stations, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.komotv.com\/\" title=\"KOMO 4 Seattle\">KOMO 4<\/a>, changed its call letters to &#8216;KQMO&#8217; for the film, and a lot of the local anchorpeople got cameos whenever there were dealings in the television studio. I haven&#8217;t watched enough local TV since I got down here to know who&#8217;s who, but every time a familiar face came on the screen it got a bit of a laugh from the rest of the audience.<\/p>\n<p>It was also really fun seeing Seattle on the big screen, more so now that I&#8217;ve lived down here for almost a year. Many of the sites and locations I could actually identify, which I enjoyed &#8212; enough has changed enough in the years since the three movies that I have on DVD that I know are set in Seattle were filmed (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/6305283516\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: Singles\">Singles<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00003CXCI\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: Say Anything\">Say Anything<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0792838467\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: Wargames\">Wargames<\/a>) that while I recognized some things in them, many other things have changed or just aren&#8217;t there anymore.<\/p>\n<p>As for the movie itself &#8212; well, it was cute. It felt a little slower than many other recent films, but I liked it &#8212; it wasn&#8217;t a boring type of slow, it just was paced to allow for a bit more breathing room than is typical these days. Jolie did a better job than I expected, and I&#8217;ve gotta say that when her character &#8216;dressed down&#8217; and lounged around with unkempt hair, 50&#8217;s style eyeglasses, and a Social Distortion t-shirt, I thought she looked a <em>lot<\/em> cooler than when she was prissed up. I did get the feeling that some of the secondary characters were either underwritten or over-edited to trim time, as very few people other than Jolie and <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Name?Burns,+Edward+%28I%29\" title=\"IMDB page for Edward Burns\">Edward Burns<\/a> as the romantic interest were very fleshed out at all.<\/p>\n<p>Still, as far as fluff goes, it wasn&#8217;t bad fluff at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While it wasn&#8217;t anything amazing, it was certainly a very cute little romantic comedy, and I think it might be the best role I&#8217;ve seen Jolie in (and a very welcome change from the dreck that was Tomb Raider). An enjoyable way to spend 90 minutes, at the very least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2037],"tags":[23,2158,1829,2160,2159,2161],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-and-films","tag-film","tag-life-or-something-like-it","tag-say-anything","tag-singles","tag-tomb-raider","tag-wargames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}