{"id":5076,"date":"2010-08-08T14:32:20","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T18:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/?p=5076"},"modified":"2010-08-08T14:32:38","modified_gmt":"2010-08-08T18:32:38","slug":"solitary-man-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2010\/08\/08\/solitary-man-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Solitary Man&#8211;Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/image\/stars\/35o5.gif\" alt=\"3.5 Stars\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1294213\/\"><em>Solitary Man<\/em><\/a> is a Michael Douglas <em>tour de force<\/em>. He completely dominates this movie.  No one else can do does such a gleefully spot-on depiction of the charming evil alpha-male.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Kalmen (Douglas) used to be one of the best-known businessmen in the Greater New York area, famous for his string of BMW dealerships and ubiquitous television commercials. But he bent the rules and got into trouble. Now he&#8217;s trying to claw his way back up the ladder.<\/p>\n<p>Ben is not, to put it mildly, the most reliable guy in the world. You shouldn&#8217;t buy a car from him, and you definitely shouldn&#8217;t marry him, but he would be fun to hang out with if you were careful. In fact you might learn quite a lot from him, at some risk to your immortal soul.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately he is not quite as quick on his feet as he used to be, and the consequences of a life lived close to the edge are starting to catch up to him.<\/p>\n<p>This is a splendid and believable portrayal of a certain type of individual. Unfortunately they partially spoil it for me at the end with a too-pat explanation for his behavior and a too-pat upbeat ending. Even here though I can rationalize it by remembering that we really only have Ben&#8217;s word for the explanation, and he is very, very good at telling people what they need to hear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solitary Man is a Michael Douglas tour de force. He completely dominates this movie. No one else can do does such a gleefully spot-on depiction of the charming evil alpha-male&#8230;. <a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2010\/08\/08\/solitary-man-movie-review\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[379],"class_list":["post-5076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-solitary-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5076"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5082,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5076\/revisions\/5082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}