{"id":5357,"date":"2006-06-13T23:47:19","date_gmt":"2006-06-14T03:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/2006\/06\/13\/oopsie-opening-night\/"},"modified":"2006-12-23T12:21:08","modified_gmt":"2006-12-23T16:21:08","slug":"oopsie-opening-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/2006\/06\/13\/oopsie-opening-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Oopsie Opening Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was unable to extricate myself from supersoaking my nephew on the front lawn long enough to make it to Silverdocs opening night. Or rather, I decided not to go. The movie was <a href=\"http:\/\/silverdocs.com\/2006\/films\/boffo.aspx\"><em>Boffo! Tinseltown&#8217;s Bombs and Blockbusters<\/em><\/a>, which had little appeal to me because I anticipated it would feel like sitting through one of my intro film classes. Much as <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/2005\/06\/15\/silverdocs-day-1\/\">last year&#8217;s opening night film<\/a> about the history of midnight movies. Opening night films are rarely the best films in a fest; rather they are usually the one with the broadest possible appeal. There are many films I&#8217;m looking forward to here, but this wasn&#8217;t one of them.<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s my view from when I showed up to pick up my pass an hour after the movie started.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/files\/2006\/06\/opening%200011.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/files\/2006\/06\/opening%20003.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was unable to extricate myself from supersoaking my nephew on the front lawn long enough to make it to Silverdocs opening night. Or rather, I decided not to go. The movie was Boffo! Tinseltown&#8217;s Bombs and Blockbusters, which had little appeal to me because I anticipated it would feel like sitting through one of [&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_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":[41,1227],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-movies","category-silverdocs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58QoK-1op","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357","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=5357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}