{"id":53,"date":"2006-06-22T17:08:23","date_gmt":"2006-06-22T21:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/53"},"modified":"2009-05-18T17:51:53","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T21:51:53","slug":"the-newton-boys-1998-richard-linklater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/53","title":{"rendered":"The Newton Boys (1998, Richard Linklater)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More likeable than I&#8217;d expected.  Don&#8217;t know why I thought it&#8217;d be a boring movie.  Maybe just soured on the whole &#8220;western&#8221; thing after seeing <em>The Wild Bunch<\/em> and not liking it.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway.  Matthew &#8220;Willis&#8221; McConaughey is an alright thief with his explosives-expert partner, but could use a few more dependable men, so calls in his brothers Skeet &#8220;Joe&#8221; Ulrich, Ethan &#8220;Jess&#8221; Hawke, and eventually Vincent &#8220;Dock&#8221; D&#8217;Onofrio.  They rob a whole ton of banks successfully, and finally pull off the biggest railroad heist in history, getting away with some millions of dollars and five bullets in Dock, who I couldn&#8217;t believe survived it.  Eventually all get caught after the railroad job and get off with light sentences and live to a ripe old age.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/newtonboys1.jpg\" alt=\"Newton Boys\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Completely fun, convincing movie that just gets better as it goes on.  Great court scene, great ending and credits, lovely antiheroes, everything that <em>Ocean&#8217;s Twelve<\/em> wanted to be &#8211; a crime movie where the criminals are having such a good time that the audience gets caught up in in too.  Don&#8217;t know why it&#8217;s got such a bad rap on the IMDB (5.7).  I&#8217;d see it again.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/newtonboys2.jpg\" alt=\"Newton Boys\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More likeable than I&#8217;d expected. Don&#8217;t know why I thought it&#8217;d be a boring movie. Maybe just soured on the whole &#8220;western&#8221; thing after seeing The Wild Bunch and not liking it. Anyway. Matthew &#8220;Willis&#8221; McConaughey is an alright thief with his explosives-expert partner, but could use a few more dependable men, so calls in [&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":[451,143],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-richard-linklater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","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=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2444,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/2444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}