{"id":4224,"date":"2010-03-07T20:39:09","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T01:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=4224"},"modified":"2010-03-07T20:39:09","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T01:39:09","slug":"the-invention-of-lying-2009-ricky-gervais-matthew-robinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/4224","title":{"rendered":"The Invention of Lying (2009, Ricky Gervais &#038; Matthew Robinson)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I liked this.  From the plain look (courtesy of Mike Judge&#8217;s cinematographer) to the relaxed line deliveries to the dated mid-tempo pop songs it seems like they set out to make a lightly pleasant comedy and have succeeded there.  I liked the comedian supporting characters (Louis CK, Jeffrey Tambor, Tina Fey) and the comedian cameos (Jason Bateman, John Hodgman\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Ed Norton?).  I like how they presented religion as an outright lie and didn&#8217;t back down from that.  I wouldn&#8217;t say it&#8217;s a great movie, but I wouldn&#8217;t say there are more than two studio romantic comedies a year worth watching, so this is in rare company, probably higher up than <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/142\">the Will Ferrell thing<\/a> with the Spoon soundtrack<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image10\/inventionoflying1.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>But most of all, I&#8217;m sorry I watched this without Katy.  I&#8217;d had a bad day, there was no heat in the house, and as night fell and I got colder, I thought a comedy was in order.  This was on my laptop, and I watched it.  Without Katy.  Sorry!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image10\/inventionoflying2.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>All the IMDB knows about Ricky&#8217;s codirector is that he&#8217;s from L.A., younger than me, and married to a nude singer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I liked this. From the plain look (courtesy of Mike Judge&#8217;s cinematographer) to the relaxed line deliveries to the dated mid-tempo pop songs it seems like they set out to make a lightly pleasant comedy and have succeeded there. I liked the comedian supporting characters (Louis CK, Jeffrey Tambor, Tina Fey) and the comedian cameos [&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":[33,1046],"class_list":["post-4224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-comedy","tag-ricky-gervais"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224","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=4224"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4337,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224\/revisions\/4337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}