{"id":43,"date":"2006-01-21T22:01:31","date_gmt":"2006-01-22T03:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devinreams.com\/2006\/01\/21\/review-lord-of-war\/"},"modified":"2006-01-21T22:01:31","modified_gmt":"2006-01-22T03:01:31","slug":"review-lord-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"Review: Lord of War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"64\" height=\"96\" align=\"right\" id=\"image52\" alt=\"lordofwar.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/devinreams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/lordofwar.jpg\" \/> I&#8217;ll be brief, this movie was great. Nicholas Cage&#8217;s character, Yuri, is <em>the<\/em> Lord of War. He rubs shoulders with the worst people in the world and supplies them with, as he puts it, a means to defend themselves. This movie exposes you to the most fascinating &#8230; facts or fiction?  &#8230; of arms dealing. I believe theres many truths to it, and the drama itself is very interesting.<\/p>\n<p>There were a number of memorable quotes from the movie that I&#8217;d like to share:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Governments are changed more often by bullets than votes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After the Cold War, the AK-47 became Russia&#8217;s biggest export. After that came vodka, caviar, and suicidal novelists.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I could go on but the movie is certainly worth watching. There&#8217;s a touch of humor <em>and<\/em> history, how could you not like it? It&#8217;s harsh, though. Reality sometimes is. You&#8217;ll see bloodshed; much of it is actually occuring as you read this (all seven of you).<\/p>\n<p>If I were to give this a rating I&#8217;d say 9\/10. IMDB users rated it a 7.5 (which is high). Did anyone else like it as much as I did? Maybe I found it favorable becuase it gave me a chance to test out my new electric blanket&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be brief, this movie was great. Nicholas Cage&#8217;s character, Yuri, is the Lord of War. He rubs shoulders with the worst people in the world and supplies them with, as he puts it, a means to defend themselves. This movie exposes you to the most fascinating &#8230; facts or fiction? &#8230; of arms dealing. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[63,586],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","tag-movies","tag-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}