{"id":344,"date":"2004-09-26T11:01:20","date_gmt":"2004-09-26T15:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=344"},"modified":"2007-09-07T05:05:42","modified_gmt":"2007-09-07T10:05:42","slug":"in-flight-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/in-flight-entertainment","title":{"rendered":"In-flight “entertainment”"},"content":{"rendered":"

None of you may have been thinking to yourselves, “Could that Stepford Wives<\/a> remake really have been that<\/em> bad? I wish Gil Roth would give that a viewing during a transatlantic flight and let me know.”<\/p>\n

So I did. I’m of two minds on this one: it either is<\/em> that bad, or it’s somehow worse. But at least Nicole Kidman’s good to look at.<\/p>\n

I’ll give Van Helsing<\/a> a shot during the flight back, and answer the same question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

None of you may have been thinking to yourselves, “Could that Stepford Wives remake really have been that bad? I wish Gil Roth would give that a viewing during a transatlantic flight and let me know.” So I did. I’m of two minds on this one: it either is that bad, or it’s somehow worse. … <\/p>\n

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