{"id":570,"date":"2010-07-28T09:53:11","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T17:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/excessofopinions.com\/?p=570"},"modified":"2010-07-30T19:03:20","modified_gmt":"2010-07-31T03:03:20","slug":"the-ghostwriter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/excessofopinions.com\/?p=570","title":{"rendered":"The Ghostwriter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roman Polanski is a nasty old rapist, but he can make a hell of a movie.This film was taut, extremely well-acted, never pretentious or noisy. It was just <em>good<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Pierce Brosnan, I knew you had it in you. My hope is that now that he&#8217;s getting on in years, Brosnan will get the opportunity to act in his movies instead of just holding up his handsomeness. Here as a thinly-veiled Tony Blair, you absolutely forget Remington Steele. Olivia Williams remains fairly typecast, but dammit, she&#8217;s <em>good<\/em> at that brittle, seething intelligence, barely suppressing hysteria character she does. Ewan MacGregor can basically do no wrong. Kim Cattrall is very distracting but does her job; apparently she is slightly British in real life, but it&#8217;s a bit confusing here.When Tom Wilkinson shows up, you know you&#8217;re in a good movie.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, good, grown-up movie. Simple, elegant, no delusions of grandeur or overwrought action sequences. Nice job, Nasty Old Rapist, although not good enough that it should keep you out of jail.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1139328\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"The Ghostwriter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freebestmovies.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/The-Ghost-Writer-poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"321\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roman Polanski is a nasty old rapist, but he can make a hell of a movie.This film was taut, extremely well-acted, never pretentious or noisy. It was just good. Pierce Brosnan, I knew you had it in you. My hope is that now that he&#8217;s getting on in years, Brosnan will get the opportunity to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[21,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/excessofopinions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/excessofopinions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/excessofopinions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/excessofopinions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/excessofopinions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/excessofopinions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":572,"href":"https:\/\/excessofopinions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/excessofopinions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/excessofopinions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/excessofopinions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}