{"id":58,"date":"2006-10-04T09:44:17","date_gmt":"2006-10-04T01:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/10\/04\/nacho-libre-and-talledega-nights\/"},"modified":"2010-06-25T11:54:58","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T03:54:58","slug":"nacho-libre-and-talledega-nights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/10\/04\/nacho-libre-and-talledega-nights\/","title":{"rendered":"Nacho Libre and Talladega Nights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week <a href=\"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/09\/26\/doa-dead-or-alive\/\">I saw D.O.A. Dead or Alive<\/a>, and this week I&#8217;ve watched both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nacholibre.com\/\">Nacho Libre<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonypictures.com\/movies\/talladeganights\/\">Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby<\/a>. People are going to think that I see nothing but &#8220;bad&#8221; movies.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"image57\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/nacho_talledega.jpg?w=840\" alt=\"Nacho Libre and Talladega Nights movie posters\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here are my (very) quick reviews.<\/p>\n<p> Nacho Libre is very funny at times, but not a classic comedy. In a number of instances, I felt that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jack_Black_(actor)\">Jack Black<\/a> was a bit too&#8230; Jack Black. The end of the final fight was great though!<\/p>\n<p> I was a bit concerned that Talladega Nights was going to be a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Will_Ferrell\">Will Farrell<\/a> vehicle (like Nacho Libre for Jack Black), but it never really descended into that. It was surprisingly good and very entertaining. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sacha_Baron_Cohen\">Sacha Baron Cohen<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ali_G\">Ali G<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Borat\">Borat<\/a>) plays the villian and he complements Will Farrell well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I saw D.O.A. Dead or Alive, and this week I&#8217;ve watched both Nacho Libre and Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. People are going to think that I see nothing but &#8220;bad&#8221; movies. Here are my (very) quick reviews. Nacho Libre is very funny at times, but not a classic comedy. In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/10\/04\/nacho-libre-and-talledega-nights\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nacho Libre and Talladega Nights&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-W","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3760,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/3760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}