{"id":205,"date":"2008-12-09T12:27:54","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T00:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thunderguy.com\/bennett\/?p=205"},"modified":"2008-12-29T12:48:41","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T00:48:41","slug":"ghost-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2008\/12\/09\/ghost-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghost Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-209\" title=\"That guy from The Office\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/ghost-town.jpg\" alt=\"That guy from The Office\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" \/>That guy from <em>The Office<\/em> (who despite many other noteworthy roles including this one is destined always to be known only as &#8220;That guy from <em>The Office<\/em>&#8220;) really is pretty funny. He&#8217;s much more likeable in this film than the painful idiots he plays in <em>The Office <\/em>and <em>Extras<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>(OK, his real name is Ricky Gervais. But I had to look it up.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghosttownmovie.com\/\"><em><!--more-->Ghost Town<\/em><\/a>&#8216;s premise makes it reminiscent of <em>Ghost <\/em>(but don&#8217;t let that put you off) and <em>The Sixth Sense <\/em>(which I haven&#8217;t seen. Apparently there&#8217;s some twist at the end), only done with humour instead of, respectively, mawkish sentiment or edgy foreboding. My favourite parts were near the beginning, especially the hospital scenes.<\/p>\n<p>A human rights lawyer forms one of the corners of the film&#8217;s love triangle. It seems that human rights lawyers are the ultimate symbol of goodness and purity in cinema (see Mark Darcy in <em>Bridget Jones&#8217;s Diary<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Plot takes over from comedy halfway through, though it&#8217;s all worth watching. The expected feelgood moments near the end aren&#8217;t too badly overdone (though with <em>Ghost <\/em>as the benchmark, that&#8217;s not saying much). So I laughed several times and left with a smile on my face. You can&#8217;t ask for much more than that.<\/p>\n<!-- wpsso rrssb get buttons: buttons on archive option not enabled -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That guy from The Office (who despite many other noteworthy roles including this one is destined always to be known only as &#8220;That guy from The Office&#8220;) really is pretty funny. He&#8217;s much more likeable in this film than the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2008\/12\/09\/ghost-town\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-review","tag-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}