{"id":49,"date":"2005-08-14T11:32:05","date_gmt":"2005-08-14T16:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/08\/whats-it-all-about\/"},"modified":"2016-08-19T23:07:15","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T04:07:15","slug":"whats-it-all-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/archives\/49","title":{"rendered":"What’s it all about?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I saw Alfie<\/a> recently. It starts out so great — funny and insightful. Then it gets a bit too insightful. I think it hits home a bit too hard for me. The reviews on it are pretty widely polarized; probably because the ones who hated it can’t relate.<\/p>\n

It makes me wonder what the 1966 original with Michael Caine was like, because the new one is given an unfavourable comparison in many reviews. I thought it was pretty good myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I saw Alfie recently. It starts out so great — funny and insightful. Then it gets a bit too insightful. I think it hits home a bit too hard for me. The reviews on it are pretty widely polarized; probably because the ones who hated it can’t relate. It makes me wonder what the 1966 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-them","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3ksha-N","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":72,"url":"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/archives\/72","url_meta":{"origin":49,"position":0},"title":"Manhunt!!","date":"June 16, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Went to check out this for the first time today. 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