{"id":6075,"date":"2011-03-26T15:42:31","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T19:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=6075"},"modified":"2011-03-26T15:43:25","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T19:43:25","slug":"the-girlfriend-experience-2009-steven-soderbergh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/6075","title":{"rendered":"The Girlfriend Experience (2009, Steven Soderbergh)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Soderbergh&#8217;s studio movies with George Clooney and Matt Damon have been humming along at a regular pace, he&#8217;s been inconsistent with his smaller, more personal movies: <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/49\">Bubble<\/a><\/em> and <em>Girlfriend Experience<\/em> were kind of crappy, no fun to watch, but <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/1841\">Che<\/a><\/em> was overwhelming.  So yeah, Katy and I are glad we didn&#8217;t save this one for a hot date movie, since it was neither hot nor very good.  A couple of unappealing actors play a story that doesn&#8217;t seem to matter, told in random-ass chronology with camerawork alternating between intriguing, decent and appalling.<\/p>\n<p>Bored-looking &#8220;bona fide porn star&#8221; (as Netflix proclaims her) Sasha Grey (of <em>Grand Theft Anal 11<\/em>, <em>Meet the Fuckers 7<\/em> and <em>Fox Holes<\/em>) is a professional escort, dating muscle-bound personal trainer Chris Santos.  She is into astrology, takes notes on her encounters read to us in voiceover.  He is considering going on a trip to Vegas with his work buddies.  The only two scenes I liked were when he somewhat awkwardly requests a promotion from his boss and when she reads a negative review of her services online.<\/p>\n<p>From the writers of <em>Ocean&#8217;s 13<\/em>, surprisingly.  In fact I&#8217;m half-surprised that it had writers at all.  At least it was short.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Soderbergh&#8217;s studio movies with George Clooney and Matt Damon have been humming along at a regular pace, he&#8217;s been inconsistent with his smaller, more personal movies: Bubble and Girlfriend Experience were kind of crappy, no fun to watch, but Che was overwhelming. So yeah, Katy and I are glad we didn&#8217;t save this one [&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":[369,169,221],"class_list":["post-6075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-awful","tag-steven-soderbergh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6075","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=6075"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6087,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6075\/revisions\/6087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}