{"id":5994,"date":"2012-07-14T01:40:22","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T05:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=5994"},"modified":"2012-07-14T01:40:22","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T05:40:22","slug":"hes-like-a-twisted-male-garbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2012\/07\/hes-like-a-twisted-male-garbo.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;He&#8217;s like a twisted male Garbo!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Kindertrauma on the <em>Willard<\/em> remake!:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I don\u2019t mean to alarm anybody but it appears that at some point between the time I watched <strong>WILLARD<\/strong> back in 2003 and yesterday, somebody magically changed the tone of the entire film. What was once a quirky, dark-humored revenge flick concerning adorable critters is now a morbidly tragic character study that mercilessly kicked my heart in the crotch. I didn\u2019t even know my heart had a crotch. Now I understand why this wasn\u2019t a huge hit. Honey, I shrunk the cathartic payoff! I feel horrible right now thanks to <strong>WILLARD<\/strong> but that\u2019s not saying I\u2019m not happy about it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kindertrauma.com\/?p=29730\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more, more, more<\/a> (and you can get my take <a href=\"http:\/\/eve-tushnet.blogspot.com\/2003_03_01_archive.html#91260357\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>; I am super-easy for <a href=\"http:\/\/eve-tushnet.blogspot.com\/2009_02_01_archive.html#1171611287905011781\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">killer rat movies<\/a> so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_detailpage&amp;v=FFDSD8_PJ8o#t=4752s\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a> are the amazing end credits to \u201cGraveyard Shift\u201d as a bonus!)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kindertrauma on the Willard remake!: I don\u2019t mean to alarm anybody but it appears that at some point between the time I watched WILLARD back in 2003 and yesterday, somebody magically changed the tone of the entire film. 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