{"id":306,"date":"2009-03-05T18:00:31","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T06:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/?p=306"},"modified":"2009-03-05T18:00:31","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T06:00:31","slug":"quis-custodiet-one-sleep-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/quis-custodiet-one-sleep-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Quis Custodiet &#8211; One Sleep to Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Courier;\">Oh alright.  Despite whatever I said <a href=\"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/01\/quis-custodiet\/\">before<\/a>, I&#8217;m in a&#8230; high state of anticipation.<\/p>\n<p><b>Lynden Barber<\/b>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/eyeswiredopen.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/watchmen-its-thumbs-down.html\" target=\"_blank\">whip &#8217;round<\/a> of reviews, along with the <i>L.A. Times<\/i>&#8216; <b>Patrick Goldstein<\/b>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/the_big_picture\/2009\/02\/watchmen-shocke.html\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a>, have lowered expectations somewhat.  <b>Roger Ebert<\/b> has given it <a href=\"http:\/\/rogerebert.suntimes.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20090304\/REVIEWS\/903049997\" target=\"_blank\">four stars<\/a> and a review that saw past the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/review\/VE1117939777.html?categoryid=1263&#038;cs=1\" target=\"_blank\">cerulean genitalia<\/a>&#8221; and picked up on a whole lot of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Watchmen\" target=\"_blank\">original comic<\/a>&#8216;s subtext (and I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s read it).<\/p>\n<p>I must note, however, that Mr Ebert gave each <i>Hellboy<\/i> film three and a half stars.  After reading <b>Guillermo del Toro<\/b>&#8216;s script prior to seeing the first one, I was rather&#8230; crestfallen at the finished product.  <b>The Goddess<\/b> has <b><i>never<\/i><\/b> forgiven me for choosing <i>Hellboy<\/i> on one of our precious nights out.  I&#8217;ve already asked Her to accompany me to <i>Watchmen<\/i> but the 163-minute running time is worrisome.  Should I push my well-thumbed trade paperback on Her in preparation?  <i>Hurm.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The possibility of watching <b>Alan Moore<\/b> and <b>Dave Gibbons<\/b>&#8216; creation on the big screen is high <strike>this weekend<\/strike> <strike>next week<\/strike> this month.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh alright. Despite whatever I said before, I&#8217;m in a&#8230; high state of anticipation. Lynden Barber&#8216;s whip &#8217;round of reviews, along with the L.A. Times&#8216; Patrick Goldstein&#8216;s post, have lowered expectations somewhat. Roger Ebert has given it four stars and a review that saw past the &#8220;cerulean genitalia&#8221; and picked up on a whole lot &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/quis-custodiet-one-sleep-to-go\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quis Custodiet &#8211; One Sleep to Go&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-film","tag-watchmen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}