{"id":4322,"date":"2005-11-17T13:47:44","date_gmt":"2005-11-17T17:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/httpblogslawharvardeduceerock4\/2005\/11\/17\/shopgirl\/"},"modified":"2005-11-17T13:47:44","modified_gmt":"2005-11-17T17:47:44","slug":"shopgirl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/2005\/11\/17\/shopgirl\/","title":{"rendered":"Shopgirl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a3917'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t bother seeing <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Shopgirl<\/span>. Just see <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Me And You And Everyone We Know<\/span> instead. I think that&#8217;s what <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Shopgirl <\/span>is<br \/>\naspiring to, but ends up just a flabby hollow spineless film with<br \/>\nabsolutely zero chemistry between any of the characters. Jason<br \/>\nSchwartzman is trying hard to save this sinking ship, but even his<br \/>\nwackiness couldn&#8217;t save it. Claire Danes and Steve Martin are<br \/>\nincredibly boring here, and Steve Martin is boring and puffy. I hear<br \/>\nthe novel on which it was based is a lot wackier than the movie, but<br \/>\nit&#8217;s unfortunate that in the translation to the screen it lost all of<br \/>\nthe interesting stuff.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/movies2.nytimes.com\/mem\/movies\/review.html?title1=Shopgirl%20%28Movie%29&amp;title2=Shopgirl%20%28Movie%29&amp;reviewer=A%2e%20O%2e%20Scott&amp;pdate=20051021&amp;v_id=291053&amp;partner=Rotten%20Tomatoes&amp;oref=login\">A.O. Scott seems to think<\/a><br \/>\nthere&#8217;s more to this film&#8230;and I wish I could agree&#8211;I would like the<br \/>\nfilm he describes. But it&#8217;s not the film I saw. Maybe the novel had all<br \/>\nof this, but the movie is just a lifeless blob.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t bother seeing Shopgirl. Just see Me And You And Everyone We Know instead. I think that&#8217;s what Shopgirl is aspiring to, but ends up just a flabby hollow spineless film with absolutely zero chemistry between any of the characters. Jason Schwartzman is trying hard to save this sinking ship, but even his wackiness couldn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s58QoK-shopgirl","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}