{"id":3452,"date":"2018-07-31T11:58:43","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T03:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=3452"},"modified":"2018-07-31T11:58:43","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T03:58:43","slug":"television-movie-consumption-july-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2018\/07\/31\/television-movie-consumption-july-2018","title":{"rendered":"Television & Movie consumption July 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have no idea how I missed Breaking Bad<\/a> or Better Call Saul<\/a>, but they are both on Netflix, and you can take them offline, so in between all the flying I did this past month, I caught up on the entire two shows! They are both excellent<\/em><\/strong> shows, and I can’t wait for the next season of Better Call Saul! The TV shows are definitely binge worthy.<\/p>\n

500 Days of Summer<\/a> is surprisingly a good movie, starring both Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel. It is a break up movie, maybe a bit of a dark comedy, but it is also a movie about self-realisation. It is not your typical love story or romantic comedy. It has a lot of dialogue, reminding me of the Richard Linklater series, Before Sunrise\/ Before Sunset\/Before Midnight. Like those shows, this was relatively cheap to produce but grossed wonders ($7.5 million budget, $60.7 million at the box office – 709% return!). <\/p>\n

One memorable quote, since a lot of people talk about their dream partners<\/em>. (paraphrased) Why look for the girl of your dreams, when it is better to have X, as she’s real?<\/em> Gives one a lot to ponder about.<\/p>\n

Midnight In Paris<\/a> was also a good watch – one where the main character, Gil, finds himself throughout the show. Sometimes you miss things right in front of our eyes, don’t we? Memorable quote? Nostalgia is living in denial; denial of the painful present.<\/em> (full quote on Wikipedia<\/a>). Another movie with $17m budget, bringing in outsized returns at $151.1m – 789%!<\/p>\n

These movies so far have been recommended by the Netflix algorithm, which so far is giving me way over 90% match rates, which suggest that the algorithm for July 2018, at least, is working! I suspect these movies do speak to me<\/em> to some extent, and that’s what makes them successful in my eye. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have no idea how I missed Breaking Bad or Better Call Saul, but they are both on Netflix, and you can take them offline, so in between all the flying I did this past month, I caught up on the entire two shows! They are both excellent shows, and I can’t wait for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1936],"tags":[446,1716,1937],"class_list":["post-3452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-input","tag-movie","tag-netflix","tag-quotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-TG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3453,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452\/revisions\/3453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}