{"id":496,"date":"2006-08-25T09:28:46","date_gmt":"2006-08-25T09:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/a-scanner-darkly\/"},"modified":"2006-08-25T09:28:46","modified_gmt":"2006-08-25T09:28:46","slug":"a-scanner-darkly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/a-scanner-darkly\/","title":{"rendered":"A Scanner Darkly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night Tony, Zap and I went to see <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/scanner_darkly\/\" target=\"_new\">A Scanner Darkly<\/a> at the New Jersey theme park that is the Greenwich peninsula. The whole evening is as close to perfect as I could imagine &#8211; got there on time, had a nice glass of wine, managed to get free tickets from the lovely Mark, saw an excellent film then went to a great pub. Years ago, Alex gave me a copy of the book and I can&#8217;t tell you how much I loved it. Perhaps because I was concerned about the film ruining it, my expectations were mixed, but it was superb; I&#8217;m still buzzing when I think about it. Visually mind-blowing, great acting (especially Robert Downey Jr) and true to the book. It&#8217;s well worth seeing in a cinema by the way &#8211; and you won&#8217;t have to worry about the related distractions like kids and shouting, because all of the dickheads will be in the theatre next door watching Snakes on a Plane.<br \/>\nFirst time in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beerintheevening.com\/pubs\/s\/24\/2464\/Vanbrugh\/Greenwich\" target=\"_new\">Vanbrugh Tavern<\/a> too. Their award-winning garden deserves to win an award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night Tony, Zap and I went to see A Scanner Darkly at the New Jersey theme park that is the Greenwich peninsula. The whole evening is as close to perfect as I could imagine &#8211; got there on time, had a nice glass of wine, managed to get free tickets from the lovely Mark, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}