{"id":5742,"date":"2014-01-11T14:36:58","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T06:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=5742"},"modified":"2014-01-11T14:36:58","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T06:36:58","slug":"mark-wahlberg-peter-berg-and-lone-survivor-grantland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/11\/mark-wahlberg-peter-berg-and-lone-survivor-grantland\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Wahlberg, Peter Berg, and &#039;Lone Survivor&#039; &#8211; Grantland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nonetheless, the very brief debates that go on among the Pashtuns feel refreshingly thoughtful for an American war movie \u2014 even if all that these ethnic men are doing is arguing about whether to save or sacrifice a white American. That argument and its outcome situates Lone Survivor within a long history of American movies in which ethnics circle the wagons around an outsider; Mel Brooks made a scathing joke of it 40 years ago this year. These 15 to 20 minutes of Lone Survivor could have been Berg&#8217;s entire movie. Instead, they comprise a dismaying set piece that aligns the movie with emptier blockbusters: more unexamined waste. This is Luttrell&#8217;s life, but at the movies his life has become another Hollywood ending.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grantland.com\/story\/_\/id\/10269556\/mark-wahlberg-peter-berg-lone-survivor\">Mark Wahlberg, Peter Berg, and &#8216;Lone Survivor&#8217; &#8211; Grantland<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nonetheless, the very brief debates that go on among the Pashtuns feel refreshingly thoughtful for an American war movie \u2014 even if all that these ethnic men are doing is arguing about whether to save or sacrifice a white American. That argument and its outcome situates Lone Survivor within a long history of American movies &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/11\/mark-wahlberg-peter-berg-and-lone-survivor-grantland\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mark Wahlberg, Peter Berg, and &#039;Lone Survivor&#039; &#8211; Grantland&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}