{"id":118,"date":"2004-03-24T19:47:16","date_gmt":"2004-03-25T00:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/?p=118"},"modified":"2008-01-20T15:24:42","modified_gmt":"2008-01-20T23:24:42","slug":"at-the-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/2004\/03\/24\/at-the-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"At the movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

James La Croix advises:<\/p>\n

As a movie reviewer for a local weekly, I religiously avoid the following:<\/p>\n

No comedy is ever “a non-stop laugh riot<\/strong>,” or “side-splitting<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

No thriller renders me “white knuckled<\/strong>,” puts me “on the edge of my seat<\/strong>,” is “spine-tingling<\/strong>,” or a “non-stop thrill ride<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

Even if it did, in print no melodrama “made me laugh and made me cry<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

And I never metaphorically use some meaningless verb to describe an actor’s performance (e.g. “Halle Berry soars<\/strong>…”).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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