{"id":5274,"date":"2025-08-31T03:46:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T03:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=5274"},"modified":"2025-08-31T03:46:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T03:46:35","slug":"mall-cop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2025\/08\/mall-cop\/","title":{"rendered":"Mall Cop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/see\/uploads\/big\/02da877de0911d9ca1a360596d2f18e0.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\u2018was on a quick vacation and watched <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Blart:_Mall_Cop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mall Cop<\/a>. I had liked it when it came out so long ago now. Well, this movie has <em>everything<\/em> from before the phone\/social media era. It is a time capsule:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bad immigration jokes<\/li>\n<li>Perfect 90mn length<\/li>\n<li>Vibrant mall activity though that was already mostly a lie (but recently they look so morbid)<\/li>\n<li>Futuristic vehicles (Segway), computers (VAIO portable) and toys (robots and Guitar Hero) that didn\u2019t even make it to the end of that year in terms of relevance (the movie came out January 2009)<\/li>\n<li>Classic 2000s romantic silliness (I can\u2019t explain, there\u2019s one)<\/li>\n<li>Representation and good spirit<\/li>\n<li>Texting jokes and dumb phones (if only they could see the streets of [your city] today)<\/li>\n<li>Skateboarder villains (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mike_Vallely\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mike V<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Aquariums<\/li>\n<li>One liners (\u201cfeel the nub\u201d, \u201cnobody wins with a headbutt\u201d)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bonus: my favorite minivan. That I didn\u2019t know in 2009 but that I drove a lot when working for TV in Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway. We didn\u2019t know the acceleration society was about to go through then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018was on a quick vacation and watched Mall Cop. I had liked it when it came out so long ago now. Well, this movie has everything from before the phone\/social media era. It is a time capsule: Bad immigration jokes Perfect 90mn length Vibrant mall activity though that was already mostly a lie (but recently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5274"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5275,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5274\/revisions\/5275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}