{"id":8360,"date":"2004-12-20T02:19:18","date_gmt":"2004-12-20T00:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/12\/20\/team-america-world-police\/"},"modified":"2005-04-18T19:56:47","modified_gmt":"2005-04-18T16:56:47","slug":"team-america-world-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/12\/20\/team-america-world-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Team America: World Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/20041220-team_america_world_police.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/>No matter how many movies I watch, there are always some that I am waiting to watch desperately.  And when they come around, I use any chance to watch them &#8211; be that a cinema, a scratched video tape, or highly compressed DivX screener.<\/p>\n<p>I was so waiting for &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0372588\/\">Team America: World Police<\/a>&#8220;.  And I am so happy that it turned out way better than I expected even though my expectations were pretty high.  This is a great feature.  Here is a check list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Original &#8211; check<\/li>\n<li>From the producers of the &#8220;South Park&#8221;, with &#8220;South Park&#8221; atmosphere, but done differently &#8211; check.<\/li>\n<li>Explicit lyrics, with lots of &#8220;f&#8221;-words, &#8220;s&#8221;-words, &#8220;d&#8221;-words, and all sorts of other words &#8211; check<\/li>\n<li>Unbelievable doll art &#8211; check<\/li>\n<li>Great songs &#8211; check<\/li>\n<li>Lots of parodies on &#8220;Kill Bill&#8221;, &#8220;The Matrix&#8221;, &#8220;Men In Black&#8221;, &#8220;Star Wars&#8221;, James Bond movies and what not &#8211; check<\/li>\n<li>Huge dead body count and blowing up of few world wonders &#8211; check<\/li>\n<li>Both hetero and homosexual scenes &#8211; check<\/li>\n<li>Laughing at a bunch of &#8220;American&#8221; values &#8211; check<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Could I continue?  Yes, of course.  But this was so good that is worth seeing.  And although I&#8217;ve seen it from the screener, I will go the cinema to watch it (if it will ever come to this part of the world) or rent an original DVD.<\/p>\n<p>9 out of 10.  I gave 9 reasons, didn&#8217;t I?<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>No matter how many movies I watch, there are always some that I am waiting to watch desperately. And when they come around, I use any chance to watch them &#8211; be that a cinema, a scratched video tape, or highly compressed DivX screener. I was so waiting for &#8220;Team America: World Police&#8220;. And I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/12\/20\/team-america-world-police\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Team America: World Police<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\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":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-8360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-movies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8362,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/12\/20\/the-crimson-rivers\/","url_meta":{"origin":8360,"position":0},"title":"The Crimson Rivers","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"December 20, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Watched \"The Crimson Rivers\" (also known as \"Les Rivi\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdres pourpres\") on DVD today. 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