{"id":39,"date":"2006-06-06T20:00:09","date_gmt":"2006-06-07T00:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/39"},"modified":"2006-06-06T20:00:09","modified_gmt":"2006-06-07T00:00:09","slug":"the-yes-men-2003-price-smith-ollman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/39","title":{"rendered":"The Yes Men (2003, Price &#038; Smith &#038; Ollman)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t get how talented filmmakers, having a high level of access to a couple very interesting subjects, can make a boring movie.  They managed though, for the most part.  Gets better towards the end, as the Yes Men schemes actually get less well-planned and more last-minute.<\/p>\n<p>The guys run a website similar in look and address to the WTO site, so get called to speak at conferences.  First time they devise gold jumpsuit with inflatable penis TV to monitor third-world employees while on the go.  Then in conjunction with McDonalds they announce new recycled-food burger program at a classroom.  Finally they disband the WTO completely, saying it&#8217;s completely failed to meet its stated objectives.  Subversion is fun and they&#8217;ve got some particularly hilarious ideas, so movie was worth watching even if I complained about the editing all the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t get how talented filmmakers, having a high level of access to a couple very interesting subjects, can make a boring movie. They managed though, for the most part. Gets better towards the end, as the Yes Men schemes actually get less well-planned and more last-minute. The guys run a website similar in look [&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":[369,169],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-awful"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","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=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}