{"id":3275,"date":"2010-11-05T21:25:04","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T11:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=3275"},"modified":"2010-12-01T07:00:26","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T21:00:26","slug":"5-second-review-im-still-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=3275","title":{"rendered":"5 Second Review:  I&#8217;m Still Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Casey Affleck&#8217;s mockumentary <em>I&#8217;m Still Here<\/em> showcases Joaquin Phoenix&#8217;s career path not long after he was nominated for an Oscar for portraying Johnny Cash in <em>Walk The Line<\/em>.\u00a0 He publically announces that he is quitting acting to pursue a career as a rapper.\u00a0 Of course we now know that Phoenix was acting but not unlike a Sacha Baren Cohen film, no one else is in on the gag other than Affleck.\u00a0 So part of the fun is watching him wind up exasperated agents and media personalities who take him to be serious.<\/p>\n<p>The first forty minutes or so of this documentary is good fun.\u00a0 We see Phoenix convincingly go off the edge and act like a complete fruitloop.\u00a0 He crashes Hollywood parties, has an entertaining meeting with a bemused P.Diddy and his bizarre rants are pretty funny to watch.\u00a0 For a while.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, it sort of goes south from there.\u00a0 The documentary doesn&#8217;t really have much of a structure or a particularly complicated message to convey.\u00a0 The second half devolves mostly into scenes of Phoenix yelling at his agent.\u00a0 It all gets a bit repetitive and tedious.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d actually recommend watching <em>Get Him To The Greek<\/em> over this film.\u00a0 Although purely fiction, it portrays the same anarchic debauched celebrity lifestyle you see here but is delivered within the confines of a more structured and ultimately more satisfying narrative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Casey Affleck&#8217;s mockumentary I&#8217;m Still Here showcases Joaquin Phoenix&#8217;s career path not long after he was nominated for an Oscar for portraying Johnny Cash in Walk The Line.\u00a0 He publically announces that he is quitting acting to pursue a career as a rapper.\u00a0 Of course we now know that Phoenix was acting but not unlike &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,5],"tags":[309,677,679,680,678],"class_list":["post-3275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-films","tag-5-second-review","tag-casey-affleck","tag-im-still-here","tag-joaquin-phoenix","tag-mockumentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3275"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3476,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275\/revisions\/3476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}