{"id":517,"date":"2004-09-24T12:21:33","date_gmt":"2004-09-24T17:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/uncategorized\/bright-young-things"},"modified":"2019-03-04T16:19:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T22:19:20","slug":"bright-young-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/reviews\/movie\/bright-young-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Bright Young Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was expecting deliciously wicked. Instead, I got loud and dull. <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0325123\/\">Bright Young Things<\/a> was funny sometimes, it just wasn&#8217;t funny enough. It reminded me of either a serious <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0098833\/\">Jeeves and Wooster<\/a>, or a <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0083390\/\">Brideshead Revisited<\/a> lite. I left the theater wanting to go home and watch either one of them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cont\">\nI&#8217;m going to read the Evelyn Waugh&#8217;s book &#8220;Vile Bodies&#8221; to see if the problem is with the film or the story. P.G. Wodehouse writes about the shallow, self-absorbed, wealthy celebrities too, but he makes them brilliant. Even though Wodehouse exposes the shimmer as champagne sparkle and rhinestone glitter, his amusement outshines Waugh&#8217;s moralizing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cont\">\nI&#8217;ll be interested in seeing how <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/name\/nm1304386\/\">Stephen Campbell Moore<\/a> develops. He looks like a younger, and more handsome <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/name\/nm0491402\/\">Hugh Laurie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4>Related<\/h4>\n<p>I keep thinking that there is a similar movie that I&#8217;ve enjoyed more, but I&#8217;m not sure what it is. Maybe any of these.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0094336\/\">Withnail and I<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0110588\/\">Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0112637\/\">Carrington<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0114134\/\">The Pillow Book<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Friday movie group consisted of me, AJM, and M2. First we dined at Manuel&#8217;s, which is celebrating its twentieth anniversary. (Katz&#8217;s is celebrating its 25th.) I&#8217;m sure my patronage has done a lot to keep them both in business. I&#8217;ve been a faithful consumer of both from the beginning.<\/p>\n<h4>Bottom Line: Not Recommended. Flat.<\/h4>\n<div class=\"belowpost\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/reviews\/movie\/bright-young-things\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3352,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions\/3352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}