{"id":765,"date":"2002-10-23T00:37:26","date_gmt":"2002-10-23T08:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/10\/23\/why-movies-are-bad\/"},"modified":"2019-11-27T16:44:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T00:44:24","slug":"why-movies-are-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/10\/23\/why-movies-are-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"Why movies are bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15715,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/user.mefi\\\/12687&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251228211544\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/user.mefi\\\/12687&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 22:00:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 04:45:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 04:45:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15716,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/mefi\\\/20997&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050416205548\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com:80\\\/mefi\\\/20997&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 22:00:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 04:45:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 04:45:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Most movies seem to follow the following formula to success:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Hire big actors for the gross national product of a small nation<\/li>\n<li>Spend another few GNP on special effects<\/li>\n<li>Give a wino in the parking lot 5 bucks and a slightly used cigarette for a script<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/user.mefi\/12687\" title=\"substrate's MeFi profile\">substrate<\/a>, on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/20997\" title=\"MeFi comments thread\">MeFi<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most movies seem to follow the following formula to success&hellip;<\/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":[23,16],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-and-films","tag-film","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","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=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}