{"id":2972,"date":"2009-08-22T18:22:13","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T22:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=2972"},"modified":"2013-05-26T16:35:50","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T20:35:50","slug":"the-boat-that-rocked-2009-richard-curtis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/2972","title":{"rendered":"The Boat That Rocked (2009, Richard Curtis)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A movie about the perfect 1960&#8217;s, where nothing bad happens.  Less realistic even than <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/26\">Love Actually<\/a><\/em> and yet based on the mildly-true story of the pirate-radio boats that served London the hottest rock records which the BBC was too uptight to play.  The uptight BBC is represented by villainous bureaucrat Kenneth Branagh (and villain-in-training Jack Davenport, who is given a missed opportunity for redemption at the end).<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image09\/boatthatrocked1.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>The boat is populated by a bunch of DJs and a mixed-up naive kid designed to lead us through all this anarchy (as if we needed him).  From left to right:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image09\/boatthatrocked3.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>Captain Bill Nighy<br \/>\nThe kid<br \/>\nRhys Darby of <em>Flight of the Conchords<\/em><br \/>\nI think that&#8217;s Tom Wisdom of <em>300<\/em><br \/>\nThick Kevin<br \/>\nNick Frost<br \/>\nsome dude with about two lines<br \/>\nstoned Bob (secretly our kid&#8217;s missing father): Ralph Brown of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/6519\">Withnail &#038; I<\/a><\/em>, <em>Alien 3<\/em><br \/>\npossibly Philip Seymour Hoffman (head missing)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image09\/boatthatrocked2.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>And dramatically featuring: Rhys Ifans!  Of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/583\">Elizabeth 2<\/a><\/em>!  He shows up and brings faux-discord to the ship.  Oh, and Emma Thompson has a scene as the kid&#8217;s mom.  Most impressive was the inclusion of sixty classic rock songs, which must&#8217;ve accounted for half the film&#8217;s budget.  Thought it was pretty good, light, funny.  Katy was disappointed that it wasn&#8217;t <em>Julie and Julia<\/em>, and called it a boy movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A movie about the perfect 1960&#8217;s, where nothing bad happens. Less realistic even than Love Actually and yet based on the mildly-true story of the pirate-radio boats that served London the hottest rock records which the BBC was too uptight to play. The uptight BBC is represented by villainous bureaucrat Kenneth Branagh (and villain-in-training Jack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[698,440],"class_list":["post-2972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-philip-seymour-hoffman","tag-rock-roll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2972"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8660,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972\/revisions\/8660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}