{"id":12430,"date":"2018-06-24T22:06:52","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T02:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=12430"},"modified":"2018-06-24T22:06:52","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T02:06:52","slug":"micmacs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/micmacs\/","title":{"rendered":"Micmacs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;She&#8217;s got a short fuse but she&#8217;ll bend over backwards for us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Micmacs<\/strong>, released in 2009<\/p>\n<p>Bazil got shot in the head by a stray bullet, and lost his job while he was recovering. He ends up falling in with a small group of people who collect junk and fix it. When he finds the company that made the bullet in his head &#8212; as well as the company that made the land mine that killed his father &#8212; he decides revenge is at hand.<\/p>\n<p>This is a French movie. It&#8217;s quirky in the way that <strong>Amelie<\/strong> is quirky &#8212;&nbsp; you don&#8217;t know what will happen.<\/p>\n<p>The full French title translates to &#8220;non-stop shenanigans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about what happens when you work together.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t quite pack the same punch as <strong>Amelie<\/strong>, but its characters and situations are delightful.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Dany Boon and Dominique Pinon. Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/alien-resurrection\/\"><strong>Alien: Resurrection<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;She&#8217;s got a short fuse but she&#8217;ll bend over backwards for us.&#8221; Micmacs, released in 2009 Bazil got shot in the head by a stray bullet, and lost his job while he was recovering. He ends up falling in with a small group of people who collect junk and fix it. When he finds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[16,6,5],"class_list":["post-12430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-comedy","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12430"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12436,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12430\/revisions\/12436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}