{"id":3370,"date":"2005-05-25T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-25T16:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=3370"},"modified":"2021-06-06T12:35:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T16:35:58","slug":"times-top-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2005\/05\/25\/times-top-100\/","title":{"rendered":"<I>TIME<\/I>&#8216;s Top 100"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/moviesbug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; It&#8217;s hard to take <i>TIME<\/i> seriously after their Ann <strike>Cu<\/strike>\u2026sorry, <u>Coulter<\/u> cover story (and <i>Newsweek<\/i> is hogging all the attention right now), but I enjoyed perusing their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/2005\/100movies\/the_complete_list.html\">big list of 100 greatest movies<\/a>. Sure, there are some quibbles, but it seems a well-rounded list: some popular favorites, some foreign movies, some critical darlings, and some personal favorites. Plus a lot of plain old good movies. Any critics&#8217; list which includes <i>Brazil<\/i>, <i>King Kong<\/i>, <i>Meet Me in St Louis<\/i>, and <i>Lord of the Rings<\/i> is fine by me\u2026not forgetting mentions of Spielberg, Hitchcock, Kubrick, the Coen Brothers, and Pixar.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; I&#8217;m chagrined to admit though I actually had one of their movies, <i>City of God<\/i>, in my possession but let it slip away unwatched. I rented it from NetFlix back in November. Yes, November. And I&#8217;ve been keeping it all this time because of my well-meaning but half-hearted plans of watching it. I finally admitted I would never get around to see it and, coincidentally enough, sent it back this very morning.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; It&#8217;s hard to take TIME seriously after their Ann Cu\u2026sorry, Coulter cover story (and Newsweek is hogging all the attention right now), but I enjoyed perusing their big list of 100 greatest movies. Sure, there are some quibbles, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2005\/05\/25\/times-top-100\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3371,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370\/revisions\/3371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}