{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "So after Slabtown I went to another bar and ended up watching Spartan. Why have I never heard of this? Why have you never heard...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/45980931724/", "html": "<p>So after Slabtown I went to another bar and ended up watching Spartan. Why have I never heard of this? Why have you never heard of this? From 2004, it has<br/><br/>Val Kilmer!<br/><br/>(Val Kilmer is actually great in those Bruce Willis roles where a competent action protagonist realizes he&rsquo;s in a ridiculous situation. I hear his one-man show as Mark Twain is a sight to behold.)<br/><br/>Kristen Bell!<br/><br/>(In a pre-Veronica Mars role where she gets to play flinty-yet-scared-yet-tomboy-sexy, which is absolutely her thing, she shoulda done Domino)<br/><br/>written and directed by David Mamet!<br/><br/>(which - you realize shot by shot he&rsquo;s still a little stagy, but he&rsquo;s got a good cinematographer and the shots flow well)<br/><br/>plus Derek Luke (who? but okay) and William H. Macy (meh). I caught the beginning of it and I thought it was the end of a good movie, turns out it kept going.</p>"}