{"id":8165,"date":"2004-11-06T08:50:14","date_gmt":"2004-11-06T06:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/11\/06\/steel-magnolias\/"},"modified":"2006-01-17T03:26:26","modified_gmt":"2006-01-17T00:26:26","slug":"steel-magnolias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/11\/06\/steel-magnolias\/","title":{"rendered":"Steel Magnolias"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"\"\/Watched “Steel Magnolias<\/a>” on DVD. I’ve seen it before, but for some reason my memory kept no record of this film.<\/p>\n

IMDB suggests a “Comedy\/Romance\/Drama” categorization for this movie. I do disagree a lot with this. This as pure drama as it can get. I mean there are, of course, ways to laugh at diabetics woman who, despite all doctors’ advice, gives birth to the baby, than needs a kidney, which than provided by her mother, and than dies anyway… But this movie is not about laughing at these things. It is about how life can be tough sometimes. There are a few jokes, sure. But those are only used to help people to get through difficult times. There is no comedy in that.<\/p>\n

I liked this movie a lot. It has nice character development and attention to details. Everything and everyone look so real that I got glued to the movie from the first few minutes until the closing titles. There is plenty of good acting too. And the story is good. Not very original, but good.<\/p>\n

I think that a 7 out of 10 would do this movie justice.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Watched “Steel Magnolias” on DVD. I’ve seen it before, but for some reason my memory kept no record of this film. IMDB suggests a “Comedy\/Romance\/Drama” categorization for this movie. I do disagree a lot with this. This as pure drama as it can get. I mean there are, of course, ways to laugh at diabetics … Continue reading Steel Magnolias<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,24],"tags":[1398,500,2008],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-8165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-movies","tag-julia-roberts","tag-romance","tag-sally-field"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9461,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/09\/16\/drumline\/","url_meta":{"origin":8165,"position":0},"title":"Drumline","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"September 16, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Martin suggested that I saw this movie, so I did. \"Drumline\". 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