{"id":44,"date":"2011-06-27T13:44:54","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T17:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joelthecomic.com\/?p=44"},"modified":"2011-06-27T21:52:54","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T01:52:54","slug":"the-best-movies-of-2011-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joelthecomic.com\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"The best movies of 2011 so far&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; clear: both; text-align: right\">\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fjoelthecomic.com%2F%3Fp%3D44&amp;layout=button_count&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=100&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:100px; height: 30px; align: right; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n<div class=\"twitter_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 0px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets\/tweet_button.html?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjoelthecomic.com%2F%3Fp%3D44&amp;count=horizontal&amp;lang=en\" height=\"20\" width=\"110\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Not that I&#8217;ve seen all that many this year.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my top 5 (half a top 10 for half a year):<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Win Win &#8211; Great indie comedy with Paul Giamatti<\/li>\n<li>Super 8 &#8211; E.T. bangs Cloverfield, makes this &#8211; awesome<\/li>\n<li>Hanna &#8211; Tense, fluid, cinematic. No love for The Chemical Brothers score? Much better than what Daft Punk did for Tron: Legacy.<\/li>\n<li>X-Men: First Class &#8211; Surprised me. Kind of like the J.J. Abrams Star Trek reboot from a few summers ago. Fun.<\/li>\n<li>Source Code &#8211; A modern, Twilight Zone inspired thriller. Puts stand-up comedy in a great light, too. You have to see it to understand.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Honorable mention to the comedies Cedar Rapids, Bridesmaids and, go ahead and hate me, The Hangover II.<\/p>\n<p>My top 10 movies (and those of MetroTimes critic Corey Hall) can be heard on episode #54 of Joel Radio which you can access by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coreyandjoelradio.com\/archives\/2011\/01\/joel_radio_54_a.html\">clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not that I&#8217;ve seen all that many this year. Here&#8217;s my top 5 (half a top 10 for half a year): Win Win &#8211; Great indie comedy with Paul Giamatti Super 8 &#8211; E.T. bangs Cloverfield, makes this &#8211; awesome Hanna &#8211; Tense, fluid, cinematic. No love for The Chemical Brothers score? Much better than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelthecomic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelthecomic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelthecomic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelthecomic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelthecomic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/joelthecomic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"https:\/\/joelthecomic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelthecomic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelthecomic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelthecomic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}