{"id":3334,"date":"2010-08-19T14:23:39","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T20:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/viddy\/the-cooler-4-stars\/"},"modified":"2010-08-19T14:23:39","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T20:23:39","slug":"the-cooler-4-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/viddy\/the-cooler-4-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cooler (4 stars)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:7b08a82a-97b5-421f-9649-2ca5f2593cf8:a17a4482-9835-4a20-ab0b-8f583280ee9a\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">\n<div style=\"width: 155px; padding-left: 5px;\">\n<div id=\"left\" style=\"float: left;\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Cooler\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/e0a8694ec089_C4B7\/TheCooler.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt318374\/\" target=\"_blank\">Go to IMDb page<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:smaller\">Information &copy; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\" target=\"_blank\">IMDb.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>We watched the Cooler primarily for William H. Macy and Alex Baldwin. They did not disappoint. Maria Bello was a pleasant surprise and equal to the others.<\/p>\n<p>I hate the real Las Vegas, Nevada, and almost every depiction of it. It\u2019s an awful town. This movie touches on the dead-end, endless night aspects of the place. The caricature of mob involvement is a bit old, of course. The fresh aspect is in the notion of the \u201ccooler\u201d himself: a man so unlucky that just being near him ends any lucky you have at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>The violence is at the edge of my tolerance. I understand why this created some buzz for Alec Baldwin, who is a very good bad guy.&#160; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go to IMDb page Information &copy; IMDb.com We watched the Cooler primarily for William H. Macy and Alex Baldwin. They did not disappoint. Maria Bello was a pleasant surprise and equal to the others. I hate the real Las Vegas, Nevada, and almost every depiction of it. It\u2019s an awful town. This movie touches on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/viddy\/the-cooler-4-stars\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Cooler (4 stars)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-viddy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}