yify 0.0.2 → 0.0.3
Sign up to get free protection for your applications and to get access to all the features.
- checksums.yaml +4 -4
- data/README.md +21 -229
- data/lib/yify.rb +7 -3
- data/lib/yify/client.rb +307 -95
- data/lib/yify/models/actor.rb +6 -0
- data/lib/yify/models/api_response.rb +0 -2
- data/lib/yify/models/base.rb +18 -0
- data/lib/yify/models/bookmark.rb +6 -0
- data/lib/yify/models/comment.rb +1 -9
- data/lib/yify/models/director.rb +6 -0
- data/lib/yify/models/movie.rb +0 -48
- data/lib/yify/models/parental_guide.rb +6 -0
- data/lib/yify/models/profile.rb +1 -5
- data/lib/yify/models/review.rb +6 -0
- data/lib/yify/models/session.rb +0 -4
- data/lib/yify/models/torrent.rb +6 -0
- data/lib/yify/models/user.rb +1 -13
- data/lib/yify/response.rb +1 -12
- data/lib/yify/support/utils.rb +24 -1
- data/lib/yify/version.rb +1 -1
- data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_add_a_movie_bookmark.yml +59 -0
- data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_delete_a_comment.yml +59 -0
- data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_delete_a_movie_bookmark.yml +59 -0
- data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_edit_a_user_profile.yml +61 -0
- data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_get_a_user_key.yml +59 -0
- data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_get_a_user_profile.yml +56 -0
- data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_get_movie_bookmarks.yml +59 -0
- data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_get_movie_comments.yml +106 -60
- data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_get_movie_details.yml +42 -29
- data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_get_movie_parental_guides.yml +106 -0
- data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_get_movie_reviews.yml +285 -0
- data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_get_movie_suggestions.yml +69 -0
- data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_get_upcoming_movies.yml +31 -159
- data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_get_user_details.yml +35 -16
- data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_like_a_comment.yml +59 -0
- data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_like_a_movie.yml +59 -0
- data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_list_movies.yml +36 -14
- data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_make_a_comment.yml +60 -0
- data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_make_a_request.yml +60 -0
- data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_recover_forgotten_passwords.yml +59 -0
- data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_register_a_user.yml +29 -12
- data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_report_a_comment.yml +59 -0
- data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_reset_a_password.yml +29 -12
- data/spec/models/base_spec.rb +21 -0
- data/spec/response_spec.rb +7 -11
- data/spec/spec_helper.rb +8 -4
- data/spec/yify_spec.rb +97 -57
- data/yify.gemspec +1 -1
- metadata +44 -38
- data/lib/yify/models/requested_movie.rb +0 -17
- data/lib/yify/models/upcoming_movie.rb +0 -15
- data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_add_a_request.yml +0 -43
- data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_edit_a_profile.yml +0 -42
- data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_get_a_profile.yml +0 -44
- data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_get_requests_list.yml +0 -52
- data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_login_a_user.yml +0 -42
- data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_post_a_comment.yml +0 -42
- data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_recover_passwords.yml +0 -42
- data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_vote_on_requests.yml +0 -42
- data/spec/models/api_response_spec.rb +0 -6
- data/spec/models/comment_spec.rb +0 -13
- data/spec/models/movie_spec.rb +0 -53
- data/spec/models/profile_spec.rb +0 -21
- data/spec/models/requested_movie_spec.rb +0 -20
- data/spec/models/session_spec.rb +0 -8
- data/spec/models/upcoming_movie_spec.rb +0 -13
- data/spec/models/user_spec.rb +0 -17
@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
|
|
1
|
+
---
|
2
|
+
http_interactions:
|
3
|
+
- request:
|
4
|
+
method: get
|
5
|
+
uri: http://yts.to/api/v2/movie_parental_guides?movie_id=353
|
6
|
+
body:
|
7
|
+
encoding: US-ASCII
|
8
|
+
string: ''
|
9
|
+
headers:
|
10
|
+
Accept-Encoding:
|
11
|
+
- gzip;q=1.0,deflate;q=0.6,identity;q=0.3
|
12
|
+
Accept:
|
13
|
+
- "*/*"
|
14
|
+
User-Agent:
|
15
|
+
- Ruby
|
16
|
+
response:
|
17
|
+
status:
|
18
|
+
code: 200
|
19
|
+
message: OK
|
20
|
+
headers:
|
21
|
+
Server:
|
22
|
+
- nginx
|
23
|
+
Date:
|
24
|
+
- Tue, 15 Sep 2015 20:56:11 GMT
|
25
|
+
Content-Type:
|
26
|
+
- application/json
|
27
|
+
Content-Length:
|
28
|
+
- '4282'
|
29
|
+
Connection:
|
30
|
+
- keep-alive
|
31
|
+
Cache-Control:
|
32
|
+
- public, s-maxage=21600
|
33
|
+
Access-Control-Allow-Origin:
|
34
|
+
- "*"
|
35
|
+
X-Frame-Options:
|
36
|
+
- SAMEORIGIN
|
37
|
+
- SAMEORIGIN
|
38
|
+
X-Content-Type-Options:
|
39
|
+
- nosniff
|
40
|
+
- nosniff
|
41
|
+
Age:
|
42
|
+
- '0'
|
43
|
+
X-Cache:
|
44
|
+
- uncached
|
45
|
+
Accept-Ranges:
|
46
|
+
- bytes
|
47
|
+
X-Frontend:
|
48
|
+
- DE
|
49
|
+
body:
|
50
|
+
encoding: UTF-8
|
51
|
+
string: '{"status":"ok","status_message":"Query was successful","data":{"parental_guide_count":4,"parental_guides":[{"type":"Nudity","parental_guide_text":"SEX\/NUDITY
|
52
|
+
7\/10\n\nA man and a woman have sex: the woman is on top of the man thrusting
|
53
|
+
(we see her bare back) and the man moans.\n\nA man and a woman have sex: the
|
54
|
+
man thrusts on top of the woman and we only see their bare backs.\n\nA man
|
55
|
+
and a woman have sex in a shower: we see rhythmic movement (no nudity).\n\nA
|
56
|
+
woman climbs onto a man\u0027s lap and kisses him, we see a theater filled
|
57
|
+
with couples kissing, a man and a woman kiss romantically a few times, a man
|
58
|
+
crawls across a table to kiss a woman and she licks his face, we see the silhouette
|
59
|
+
of a man and a woman kissing, and we see quick clips of a man kissing two
|
60
|
+
different women in many different settings.\n\nA man and a woman kiss while
|
61
|
+
lying on a sofa (her leg is wrapped around his waist), we hear panting and
|
62
|
+
moaning, and another woman walks in on them.\n\nWe see a fully nude man from
|
63
|
+
the back several times in several scenes.\n\nA man opens his pants zipper
|
64
|
+
and presumably removes his penis (we don\u0027t see anything) making a sexual
|
65
|
+
suggestion to the woman.\n\nA woman invites a man to have sex with her, a
|
66
|
+
young boy asks a young girl to lick his private parts, and a man makes sexual
|
67
|
+
sounds.\n\nPeople talk on the radio about having anal sex.\n\nA man slathers
|
68
|
+
something (we presume it\u0027s microfilm) with Vaseline and then reaches
|
69
|
+
behind him and grunts (we assume he\u0027s inserting the microfilm in his
|
70
|
+
anus).\n\nA man talks about his mother having raised him as a girl (we see
|
71
|
+
him dressed in dresses."},{"type":"Violence","parental_guide_text":"VIOLENCE\/GORE
|
72
|
+
5\/10\n\nA man is dragged into the back of a car and strangled (his legs flail
|
73
|
+
around until he dies). \n\nA man shoots two men then drags another man out
|
74
|
+
of a car and shoots him (there is blood all over him). \n\nA man is shot a
|
75
|
+
few times and we see bloody holes in his clothing. \n\nTwo men hold guns on
|
76
|
+
a man, then we see the man dead on the ground with blood on his head and sleeve.
|
77
|
+
\n\nA man sits on a diving board over a swimming pool and the water below
|
78
|
+
him fills with blood. \n\nA man shoots a man and leaves him dead on the ground,
|
79
|
+
and a woman is shot in the back. \n\nA man gags and falls on the floor unable
|
80
|
+
to move, and a woman gags and falls to the floor gasping and trembling. There
|
81
|
+
are quick clips of a man killing several people in several scenes. \n\nWe
|
82
|
+
see that a man is imagining a studio filled with people dead and covered with
|
83
|
+
blood. \n\nA man is hit in the head with a gun (we see him later with a bandaged
|
84
|
+
nose and black eyes), a woman punches a man in the face, and a man is punched
|
85
|
+
in the nose. \n\nA man holds a gun to a man\u0027s head. \n\nA man is thrown
|
86
|
+
out of a bar by the bouncer and lands hard on the sidewalk. \n\nA man receives
|
87
|
+
instructions and training on how to kill a man: one example shows a man being
|
88
|
+
hit in the throat and he goes down gasping for air (presumably, he dies from
|
89
|
+
his injuries although we don\u0027t see his demise) and another shows people
|
90
|
+
preparing nitroglycerine. \n\nBattery cables are attached to the genitals
|
91
|
+
of a dummy, they are switched on and the dummy smolders. \n\nA man has a scarred
|
92
|
+
face. \n\nA woman talks about her father having been a serial killer. \n\nWe
|
93
|
+
hear that a baby was born with a twin\u0027s umbilical cord wrapped around
|
94
|
+
its neck. \n\nA man talks about enjoying the act of killing, people talk about
|
95
|
+
a man having committed suicide, people talk about a man blowing his brains
|
96
|
+
out. A man yells at and threatens a group of young men and women. \n\nWe see
|
97
|
+
a dead man in a morgue with a toe tag. \n\nWe hear a man vomiting."},{"type":"Profanity","parental_guide_text":"PROFANITY
|
98
|
+
10\/10\n\n54 F-words, 13 sexual references, 1 explicit hand gesture, 12 scatological
|
99
|
+
terms, 14 anatomical terms (including two uses of \u0022p***y\u0022), 7 mild
|
100
|
+
obscenities, 1 derogatory term for African-Americans, 1 derogatory term for
|
101
|
+
homosexuals, 1 religious profanity, 9 religious exclamations."},{"type":"Alcohol","parental_guide_text":"Incidental
|
102
|
+
smoking and drinking. References to marijuana and alcoholism."}]},"@meta":{"server_time":1442350571,"server_timezone":"Pacific\/Auckland","api_version":2,"execution_time":"1.37
|
103
|
+
ms"}}'
|
104
|
+
http_version:
|
105
|
+
recorded_at: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 20:56:11 GMT
|
106
|
+
recorded_with: VCR 2.9.3
|
@@ -0,0 +1,285 @@
|
|
1
|
+
---
|
2
|
+
http_interactions:
|
3
|
+
- request:
|
4
|
+
method: get
|
5
|
+
uri: http://yts.to/api/v2/movie_reviews?movie_id=353
|
6
|
+
body:
|
7
|
+
encoding: US-ASCII
|
8
|
+
string: ''
|
9
|
+
headers:
|
10
|
+
Accept-Encoding:
|
11
|
+
- gzip;q=1.0,deflate;q=0.6,identity;q=0.3
|
12
|
+
Accept:
|
13
|
+
- "*/*"
|
14
|
+
User-Agent:
|
15
|
+
- Ruby
|
16
|
+
response:
|
17
|
+
status:
|
18
|
+
code: 200
|
19
|
+
message: OK
|
20
|
+
headers:
|
21
|
+
Server:
|
22
|
+
- nginx
|
23
|
+
Date:
|
24
|
+
- Tue, 15 Sep 2015 20:47:38 GMT
|
25
|
+
Content-Type:
|
26
|
+
- application/json
|
27
|
+
Content-Length:
|
28
|
+
- '18432'
|
29
|
+
Connection:
|
30
|
+
- keep-alive
|
31
|
+
Cache-Control:
|
32
|
+
- public, s-maxage=21600
|
33
|
+
Access-Control-Allow-Origin:
|
34
|
+
- "*"
|
35
|
+
X-Frame-Options:
|
36
|
+
- SAMEORIGIN
|
37
|
+
- SAMEORIGIN
|
38
|
+
X-Content-Type-Options:
|
39
|
+
- nosniff
|
40
|
+
- nosniff
|
41
|
+
Age:
|
42
|
+
- '0'
|
43
|
+
X-Cache:
|
44
|
+
- uncached
|
45
|
+
Accept-Ranges:
|
46
|
+
- bytes
|
47
|
+
X-Frontend:
|
48
|
+
- DE
|
49
|
+
body:
|
50
|
+
encoding: UTF-8
|
51
|
+
string: '{"status":"ok","status_message":"Query was successful","data":{"review_count":5,"reviews":[{"username":"Roland
|
52
|
+
E. Zwick (magneteach@aol.com)","user_rating":5,"user_location":"United States","review_summary":"Fact
|
53
|
+
Stranger Than Fiction","review_text":"\nWe all remember Chuck Barris as the
|
54
|
+
creator of some of television\u0027s most successful - albeit notoriously
|
55
|
+
mind-numbing - game shows: `The Dating Game,\u0027 `The Newlywed Game,\u0027
|
56
|
+
and `The Gong Show.\u0027 But did you know that he was also a hit man for
|
57
|
+
the CIA? Well, that\u0027s what he claims, straight from his own `unauthorized
|
58
|
+
autobiography\u0027 entitled `Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,\u0027 which
|
59
|
+
has now been made into a movie by director George Clooney and writer Charlie
|
60
|
+
Kaufman. Kaufman is known for devising elaborately absurd scenarios for his
|
61
|
+
fictional films (`Being John Malkovich,\u0027 `Adaptation\u0027 etc.), yet
|
62
|
+
even Kaufman, in his wildest fantasies, could not have come up with a more
|
63
|
+
bizarre premise than the one this real life story affords. No wonder he was
|
64
|
+
drawn to this material. They are a perfect fit. In the world of movies,
|
65
|
+
who says fact isn\u0027t stranger than fiction?\n\nIn many ways, Barris was
|
66
|
+
one of the men responsible for starting the trend towards `reality television\u0027
|
67
|
+
that so dominates network programming today. His most famous hits (especially
|
68
|
+
`The Gong Show\u0027) were all based on the premise that millions of Americans
|
69
|
+
would be willing to humiliate themselves in public for a few moments of fleeting
|
70
|
+
fame \u0096 and that millions more would tune in to bear witness to the spectacle. Barris,
|
71
|
+
craving fame himself, was simply savvy enough to plug into that national mood
|
72
|
+
- and managed to make himself a fortune and turn himself into a household
|
73
|
+
name in the process. What most of us didn\u0027t know about Barris at the
|
74
|
+
time was that, while all this was going on, he was ostensibly leading a double
|
75
|
+
life as a secret agent, tracking down and killing any number of `bad guys,\u0027
|
76
|
+
all in the name of `national security.\u0027\n\nGiven the inherently incredible,
|
77
|
+
jaw-dropping nature of the material, George Clooney, in his directorial debut,
|
78
|
+
brings an appropriately surrealistic tone to the work. He employs a number
|
79
|
+
of visual devices that help to fragment the world in which the story takes
|
80
|
+
place. Certain scenes break through the constraints of time and space, as
|
81
|
+
when Barris is talking on the phone in his apartment to an ABC executive,
|
82
|
+
who is sitting in his office, and the two locations become one on the screen. The
|
83
|
+
sense of dislocation this technique creates perfectly reflects the mental
|
84
|
+
split occurring in Barris\u0027 own disturbed psyche. This style is further
|
85
|
+
enhanced by the use of slightly off-kilter camera angles, color filtering
|
86
|
+
and sepia tones in some of the shots. Scenarist Charlie Kaufman, as always,
|
87
|
+
brings his own quirky vision to bear on the material. He cleverly balances
|
88
|
+
the two `sides\u0027 of Barris\u0027 life, transitioning smoothly between
|
89
|
+
those scenes revolving around his career as TV show producer and those revolving
|
90
|
+
around his career as CIA operative. Moreover, Kaufman does a nice job getting
|
91
|
+
inside the head of this man who is trying to fight the demons of his own past,
|
92
|
+
make a name for himself in the high stakes world of network programming, cope
|
93
|
+
with his own inadequacies as a person, and come to terms with the vile things
|
94
|
+
he is doing in his secret life all at the same time. \n\nAs Barris, Sam Rockwell
|
95
|
+
gives a terrific, high-energy performance, capturing the sadness and paranoia
|
96
|
+
of a man who seems to know deep down inside that his fame is probably undeserved,
|
97
|
+
built as it is on mediocre ideas and a willingness to exploit the baser instincts
|
98
|
+
of human nature. Drew Barrymore brings her usual charm to the role of Penny,
|
99
|
+
Barris\u0027 one true love and the only person genuinely drawn to Barris as
|
100
|
+
a person, even though he is unable to commit himself to her fully, preferring
|
101
|
+
instead to keep the relationship `casual\u0027 and uncommitted. Barris finds
|
102
|
+
it impossible to make a real, meaningful connection to another human being,
|
103
|
+
so twisted has he become in his value system and bizarre lifestyle. Rounding
|
104
|
+
out the cast are Clooney himself, as the mysterious CIA agent who draws Barris
|
105
|
+
into this strange netherworld of intrigue and danger, Rutger Hauer, as a fellow
|
106
|
+
hit man who pours out his feelings about his chosen occupation to Barris,
|
107
|
+
Julia Roberts, as the icy cool CIA operative who pops up at various moments
|
108
|
+
and in various places to keep an eye on the young recruit, and even Brad Pitt
|
109
|
+
and Matt Damon, who show up for a truly hilarious cameo appearance together,
|
110
|
+
one that had the audience at the screening I attended howling with delight.\n\nThe
|
111
|
+
$64,000 question becomes, of course, is this story even remotely true, or
|
112
|
+
is it merely another case of this master showman\u0027s playing the public
|
113
|
+
for all its worth? I haven\u0027t the slightest idea. The filmmakers certainly
|
114
|
+
take it all very seriously, as evidenced by the fact that they have various
|
115
|
+
friends and business acquaintances of Barris (Dick Clark, Jay P. Morgan) providing
|
116
|
+
interviews for the film, interviews which hint at the dark possibility that
|
117
|
+
the basis of the story might indeed be factual, given the kind of person these
|
118
|
+
people claim Barris is. This gives the film a kind of pseudo-documentary
|
119
|
+
realism that heightens the verisimilitude of what we are seeing on screen. Whether
|
120
|
+
the film is really a true story or merely a grand lark perpetrated on an increasingly
|
121
|
+
credulous audience, the fact is that `Confessions of a Dangerous Mind\u0027
|
122
|
+
turns out to be a thoroughly entertaining, utterly loony piece of original
|
123
|
+
filmmaking.\n\n`Confessions of a Dangerous Mind\u0027 marks an auspicious
|
124
|
+
debut for Clooney as a director, who, in his work behind the camera, demonstrates
|
125
|
+
a thorough command of vision and style. One looks forward to his next endeavor.
|
126
|
+
\n\n","date_written":"2003-01-24 00:00:00","date_written_unix":1043319600},{"username":"soymilk","user_rating":9,"user_location":"East
|
127
|
+
Anglia, UK","review_summary":"A highly disarming dark comedy","review_text":"One
|
128
|
+
of Charlie Kaufman\u0027s more overlooked and underrated screenplays, \u0027Confessions
|
129
|
+
of a Dangerous Mind\u0027 may have been something of a departure from the
|
130
|
+
high-concept experimentalism that made his previous brainchildren, \u0027Being
|
131
|
+
John Malkovich\u0027 and \u0027Adaptation\u0027 (a masterpiece and a near-masterpiece,
|
132
|
+
respectively) such striking breaths of fresh air, but on no account should
|
133
|
+
its ability to engage and entertain on those strengths of its own be underestimated.
|
134
|
+
Taking a well-earned break from the surreal situations and the complex plotting,
|
135
|
+
Kaufman turned his attention here to a much more straightforward yarn that
|
136
|
+
was better grounded in reality; the twist there being that it was based on
|
137
|
+
a story that, while allegedly true, just as likely never happened. \u0027Confessions\u0027
|
138
|
+
though is willing to give Chuck Barris the benefit of the doubt in regards
|
139
|
+
to his dubious claims to have been a secret assassin for the CIA in the midst
|
140
|
+
of his days as a game show host, giving life to such controversial classic
|
141
|
+
as \u0027the Gong Show\u0027 and \u0027the Dating Game\u0027 while taking
|
142
|
+
it from a range of human targets around the globe. It sits back and lets the
|
143
|
+
scenario unfold without question \u0096 and does so with such considerable
|
144
|
+
spirit and vigour that it\u0027s hard not to get lured in and pulled along
|
145
|
+
for the ride. Regardless of whether the real-life Barris truly did have some
|
146
|
+
incredible adventures within his time, or simply an overly-active imagination,
|
147
|
+
this movie translates it into one heck of an enjoyable romp \u0096 slick,
|
148
|
+
stylish and entrancing on the surface, and with a bracingly poignant and sobering
|
149
|
+
tale lurking underneath.\n\nKaufman continues to rule supreme with his flair
|
150
|
+
for developing the most heavily flawed and eccentric of characters, investing
|
151
|
+
them with witty dialogue and sharp situations and, as with his previous screenplays,
|
152
|
+
the humour is a pleasantly mixed bag \u0096 lightly amusing at some points,
|
153
|
+
laugh-out-loud hilarious at others, even outright alarming whenever it needs
|
154
|
+
to be. George Clooney\u0027s direction, meanwhile, though it stands a fair
|
155
|
+
distance from the eye-seizing zippiness that we\u0027re used to seeing Spike
|
156
|
+
Jonze apply to this writer\u0027s workings, is still an accomplished visual
|
157
|
+
take on the material, made sensational by its meticulous attention to detail.
|
158
|
+
Indeed, the film\u0027s fondness for subtle in-jokes, crafty cameos (some
|
159
|
+
great ones among the Dating Game contestants \u0096 absolutely great), background
|
160
|
+
gags and general all-round intricacy is partly what makes it so rewarding
|
161
|
+
and worthy of repeated viewings (I was watching it for what must have been
|
162
|
+
sixth or seventh time last night, and still I found myself picking up a whole
|
163
|
+
range of details that I somehow missed out on the first few times around).
|
164
|
+
Sure, things can move a tad slowly every now and then, but with this number
|
165
|
+
of niceties up there to be marvelled at you know you\u0027re never for a second
|
166
|
+
going to be bored.\n\nIt also draws a fine contrast between the two separate
|
167
|
+
pursuits that Chuck Barris is called to follow \u0096 the game show scenes
|
168
|
+
are colourful, light-hearted fun, the assassin scenes murky and deliciously
|
169
|
+
paranoid, and Sam Rockwell, at the helm as our savvy and hapless main man,
|
170
|
+
has the timing, the energy and the appeal to emerge from the two as both a
|
171
|
+
comic figure and a tragic one. Kicking off as a likable, familiar kind of
|
172
|
+
anti-hero, whose goofy grin and offhand ways have us smiling through the bar
|
173
|
+
fights and the womanising, he gradually evolves into something more enigmatic
|
174
|
+
and sorrowful; a lost, confused individual whose more innocuous contributions
|
175
|
+
to society, in the form of lowbrow \u0027trash TV\u0027, are widely scorned
|
176
|
+
(not that I\u0027ve ever seen any of the genuine Chuck Barris\u0027s shows
|
177
|
+
myself, but it would amaze me if they were really any worse than the kind
|
178
|
+
of mind-numbing reality TV that\u0027s enjoyed popularity over the past few
|
179
|
+
years), while the hidden talent he discovers in contract killing begins to
|
180
|
+
understandably repulse him soon enough. One of the most effective things about
|
181
|
+
\u0027Confessions\u0027 is just how deftly it uses its gags and its pathos,
|
182
|
+
along with interview snippets from those who were acquainted with the real-life
|
183
|
+
Barris, which punctuate the story at various points, to reflect upon this
|
184
|
+
man, his life, and just how much he really achieved either way, arriving in
|
185
|
+
the end at quite a biting conclusion. I don\u0027t think that any other rendition
|
186
|
+
of \u0027If I had a Hammer\u0027 could feel nearly as sad and haunting as
|
187
|
+
it does here.\n\nDrew Barrymore and Clooney himself offer nice support all
|
188
|
+
the while, each epitomising different ends of the Chuck Barris spectrum \u0096
|
189
|
+
Barrymore, as Chuck\u0027s bubbly girlfriend Penny, is a fun-loving innocent;
|
190
|
+
Clooney, as his CIA director, is aptly subtle and mysterious. But neither
|
191
|
+
of them, or anyone else involved for a matter of fact, comes even close to
|
192
|
+
upstaging Rockwell, whose input is simply fantastic \u0096 there\u0027s no
|
193
|
+
doubt in my mind that the Best Actor Award which, as the blurb on the DVD
|
194
|
+
so proudly states, he picked up at the Berlin International Film Festival
|
195
|
+
for his efforts, was well-and-truly earned.\n\nIt\u0027s not an innovative,
|
196
|
+
far-out, one-of-a-kind experience (a la \u0027Being John Malkovich\u0027).
|
197
|
+
But it\u0027s an entertaining, well-made and entirely satisfying flick with
|
198
|
+
one particularly brilliant stand-out performance, and that\u0027s more than
|
199
|
+
enough to do the job. Kaufman can probably pen avant-garde better than anybody
|
200
|
+
else today, but \u0027Confessions of a Dangerous Mind\u0027 goes to prove
|
201
|
+
that, when in the right company, he can write \u0027normal\u0027 just as impressively.\n\nGrade:
|
202
|
+
A","date_written":"2005-07-09 00:00:00","date_written_unix":1120824000},{"username":"gbheron","user_rating":7,"user_location":"Washington,
|
203
|
+
DC","review_summary":"Clooney Plays a Weird Story Straight Up","review_text":"\nWhat
|
204
|
+
if the creator and host of two of the 1970s biggest and lamest television
|
205
|
+
game shows was also a part-time CIA hitman? That he used The Dating Game
|
206
|
+
and The Gong Show as a cover to stage assassinations in the netherworld of
|
207
|
+
Cold War espionage. Ridiculous you\u0027d say. But that\u0027s what exactly
|
208
|
+
what Chuck Barris claims in his autobiography, and Charlie Kaufman accepts
|
209
|
+
carte blanche as the premise for his screenplay. The film plays it straight
|
210
|
+
up as if Barris were telling the truth. \n\nCan Charlie Kaufman, the screenwriter,
|
211
|
+
and George Clooney, the director pull it off? Mostly. It is competently acted
|
212
|
+
by Sam Rockwell as Barris, Julia Roberts as a fellow spy, Drew Barrymore as
|
213
|
+
his love interest, and director George Clooney as his CIA recruiter and handler. The
|
214
|
+
bizarre landscape, a marriage of television and espionage, is presented without
|
215
|
+
a smirk or wink. If Barris is telling the truth, this is what it must have
|
216
|
+
been like. It\u0027s an interesting idea, and Clooney and Kaufman have taken
|
217
|
+
it and crafted an enjoyable film. ","date_written":"2004-03-04 00:00:00","date_written_unix":1078311600},{"username":"movieguy1021
|
218
|
+
(Movieguy1021@comcast.net)","user_rating":8,"user_location":"Anywhere, USA","review_summary":"Confessions
|
219
|
+
of a Dangerous Mind: 8\/10","review_text":"\nGeorge Clooney\u0027s directorial
|
220
|
+
debut is a compelling dramatic biopic about `Gong Show\u0027 host Chuck Barris,
|
221
|
+
who claims to be a hit man for the CIA. Barris started out small, but decided
|
222
|
+
to go for the big time and move to New York, where he got a job at NBC. Soon
|
223
|
+
he becomes a manager type person, and creates an idea for a game show called
|
224
|
+
`The Dating Game\u0027. It becomes a hit, but he feels unfulfilled, even though
|
225
|
+
he has Penny (Drew Barrymore). Also, Jim Byrd (Clooney) from the CIA recruits
|
226
|
+
Barris to kill for the CIA. As we watch the movie, we don\u0027t know which
|
227
|
+
is true and which is a figment of his imagination. Think of it as an R-rated
|
228
|
+
Beautiful Mind.\n\nBarris is played with great intensity by Sam Rockwell.
|
229
|
+
Clooney took a risk of planting a not-well-known name as the lead. With such
|
230
|
+
star power behind him like Clooney, Barrymore, and Julia Roberts, he stands
|
231
|
+
out. Rockwell has starred in such movies before like Heist and The Green Mile,
|
232
|
+
all three times with great acting. He brings out the inner demons of Barris.
|
233
|
+
Rockwell was exceptional, and exceptionally believable. Even though he was
|
234
|
+
billed fourth, he has his name out now and we can expect him in larger things.\n\nMany
|
235
|
+
scenes were standout, with their camera angles and unique way of playing it.
|
236
|
+
At times it seemed like a play, with a wall disappearing, for instance. However,
|
237
|
+
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind wasn\u0027t as funny as I was hoping. Sure,
|
238
|
+
some scenes were quite funny (like the scenes in the beginning where it was
|
239
|
+
a montage of the f-word). It had an authentic feel to the 60\u0027s (including
|
240
|
+
the soundtrack), like Catch Me If You Can did. At times, it had a documentary
|
241
|
+
style to it, which would have been more effective if they had more substance
|
242
|
+
behind it, such as more of the interviews or none at all. Many of the camera
|
243
|
+
shots were close-ups, which looked quite cool. I am a game show aficionado,
|
244
|
+
so I thought that most of the time would be spent on Barris going onto the
|
245
|
+
CIA, but it was evenly divided between the two, so I was happy.\n\nAt times,
|
246
|
+
the mood was light-hearted, almost satirical, but at other points it was serious
|
247
|
+
drama that poked at your emotions. As I said before, Rockwell is definitely
|
248
|
+
lead material. Clooney did a good job portraying the CIA recruiter, and Barrymore
|
249
|
+
is the other standout as Barris\u0027 girlfriend. She and Rockwell, besides
|
250
|
+
good chemistry, both displayed true emotions. Roberts, as another CIA agent,
|
251
|
+
put in her usual mediocre performance, though she was better than normal.
|
252
|
+
However, many characters have no substance behind them, namely Roberts, who
|
253
|
+
was billed third and had about three scenes (which, I guess, is better than
|
254
|
+
Jennifer Aniston in Office Space).\n\nPossible the only downpoint of the movie
|
255
|
+
was that at times, it got too trippy for its own good. Even Barris didn\u0027t
|
256
|
+
know what was real and what wasn\u0027t. It got a little too muddled in plot,
|
257
|
+
such as who is who, at times. When Barris sees everyone who he killed, that
|
258
|
+
was just\u0085weird. Anyway, I would highly recommend Confessions of a Dangerous
|
259
|
+
Mind to about anyone.\n\nMy rating: 8\/10\n\nRated R for language, sexual
|
260
|
+
content and violence.","date_written":"2003-01-26 00:00:00","date_written_unix":1043492400},{"username":"sixtwentysix","user_rating":8,"user_location":"Denver,
|
261
|
+
CO","review_summary":"Confessions of a Dangerous Mind: Deftly Avoiding the
|
262
|
+
Gong","review_text":"While quite very obviously a well crafted lie sold as
|
263
|
+
truth this movie does not fail to entertain and was one of the more underrated
|
264
|
+
films of the year of it\u0027s release. A commercial failure the film was
|
265
|
+
re-released later based on word of mouth buzz. This film appeals to a fringe
|
266
|
+
audience that remains just out of reach of mainstream films. What do you expect
|
267
|
+
from a screenplay written by Charlie Kaufmann? This film is a telling of the
|
268
|
+
story of Chuck Barris, creator of various TV shows and all around uncomfortable
|
269
|
+
guy. Barris holds many stations in life, TV producer, songwriter and CIA assassin.
|
270
|
+
The meat of this story is not so much in his occupations but the mental condition
|
271
|
+
and back story of Barris throughout the film. With something lurking just
|
272
|
+
below the surface of an ambiguous nature you aren\u0027t certain if you should
|
273
|
+
root for Barris or despise him.\n\nThrough various twists and turns you follow
|
274
|
+
what is one half mockumentary and one half spy thriller the film plays it
|
275
|
+
very loose and fast and it let\u0027s your mind run wild and free without
|
276
|
+
the burden of tension that a spy thriller would give. Definitely worth a watch
|
277
|
+
if you enjoy strong acting performances mixed with offbeat plots.\n\nClooney
|
278
|
+
takes what is basically a poor mans \u0022THE KID STAYS IN THE PICTURE\u0022
|
279
|
+
and makes a very entertaining and watchable film with great acting and stylish
|
280
|
+
but reigned in technique. Finally a someone takes the theory of taking a bad
|
281
|
+
idea and making a fine film and makes good.","date_written":"2005-04-01 00:00:00","date_written_unix":1112270400}]},"@meta":{"server_time":1442350058,"server_timezone":"Pacific\/Auckland","api_version":2,"execution_time":"1.74
|
282
|
+
ms"}}'
|
283
|
+
http_version:
|
284
|
+
recorded_at: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 20:47:39 GMT
|
285
|
+
recorded_with: VCR 2.9.3
|
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
|
|
1
|
+
---
|
2
|
+
http_interactions:
|
3
|
+
- request:
|
4
|
+
method: get
|
5
|
+
uri: http://yts.to/api/v2/movie_suggestions?movie_id=353
|
6
|
+
body:
|
7
|
+
encoding: US-ASCII
|
8
|
+
string: ''
|
9
|
+
headers:
|
10
|
+
Accept-Encoding:
|
11
|
+
- gzip;q=1.0,deflate;q=0.6,identity;q=0.3
|
12
|
+
Accept:
|
13
|
+
- "*/*"
|
14
|
+
User-Agent:
|
15
|
+
- Ruby
|
16
|
+
response:
|
17
|
+
status:
|
18
|
+
code: 200
|
19
|
+
message: OK
|
20
|
+
headers:
|
21
|
+
Server:
|
22
|
+
- nginx
|
23
|
+
Date:
|
24
|
+
- Tue, 15 Sep 2015 17:55:00 GMT
|
25
|
+
Content-Type:
|
26
|
+
- application/json
|
27
|
+
Content-Length:
|
28
|
+
- '4384'
|
29
|
+
Connection:
|
30
|
+
- keep-alive
|
31
|
+
Cache-Control:
|
32
|
+
- public, s-maxage=21600
|
33
|
+
Access-Control-Allow-Origin:
|
34
|
+
- "*"
|
35
|
+
X-Frame-Options:
|
36
|
+
- SAMEORIGIN
|
37
|
+
- SAMEORIGIN
|
38
|
+
X-Content-Type-Options:
|
39
|
+
- nosniff
|
40
|
+
- nosniff
|
41
|
+
Age:
|
42
|
+
- '0'
|
43
|
+
X-Cache:
|
44
|
+
- uncached
|
45
|
+
Accept-Ranges:
|
46
|
+
- bytes
|
47
|
+
X-Frontend:
|
48
|
+
- CA
|
49
|
+
body:
|
50
|
+
encoding: UTF-8
|
51
|
+
string: '{"status":"ok","status_message":"Query was successful","data":{"movie_suggestions_count":4,"movie_suggestions":[{"id":18,"url":"http:\/\/yts.to\/movie\/the-insider-1999","imdb_code":"tt0140352","title":"The
|
52
|
+
Insider","title_long":"The Insider (1999)","slug":"the-insider-1999","year":1999,"rating":7.9,"runtime":157,"genres":["Biography","Drama"],"language":"English","mpa_rating":"R","small_cover_image":"http:\/\/s.ynet.io\/assets\/images\/movies\/The_Insider_1999\/small-cover.jpg","medium_cover_image":"http:\/\/s.ynet.io\/assets\/images\/movies\/The_Insider_1999\/medium-cover.jpg","state":"ok","torrents":[{"url":"http:\/\/yts.to\/torrent\/download\/B5D813ED4D8BAE8E8EE49A30C2C5616506408016.torrent","hash":"B5D813ED4D8BAE8E8EE49A30C2C5616506408016","quality":"720p","seeds":119,"peers":10,"size":"649.25
|
53
|
+
MB","size_bytes":680787968,"date_uploaded":"2011-08-05 02:00:30","date_uploaded_unix":1312466430}],"date_uploaded":"2011-08-05
|
54
|
+
02:00:30","date_uploaded_unix":1312466430},{"id":190,"url":"http:\/\/yts.to\/movie\/remember-the-titans-2000","imdb_code":"tt0210945","title":"Remember
|
55
|
+
the Titans","title_long":"Remember the Titans (2000)","slug":"remember-the-titans-2000","year":2000,"rating":7.8,"runtime":120,"genres":["Biography","Drama"],"language":"English","mpa_rating":"PG","small_cover_image":"http:\/\/s.ynet.io\/assets\/images\/movies\/Remember_the_Titans_2000\/small-cover.jpg","medium_cover_image":"http:\/\/s.ynet.io\/assets\/images\/movies\/Remember_the_Titans_2000\/medium-cover.jpg","state":"ok","torrents":[{"url":"http:\/\/yts.to\/torrent\/download\/BD44A37107F1203316F979D696BDB781A6F464A4.torrent","hash":"BD44A37107F1203316F979D696BDB781A6F464A4","quality":"720p","seeds":128,"peers":19,"size":"599.40
|
56
|
+
MB","size_bytes":628516454,"date_uploaded":"2011-09-10 02:43:10","date_uploaded_unix":1315579390}],"date_uploaded":"2011-09-10
|
57
|
+
02:43:10","date_uploaded_unix":1315579390},{"id":159,"url":"http:\/\/yts.to\/movie\/the-pianist-2002","imdb_code":"tt0253474","title":"The
|
58
|
+
Pianist","title_long":"The Pianist (2002)","slug":"the-pianist-2002","year":2002,"rating":8.5,"runtime":150,"genres":["Biography","Drama"],"language":"English","mpa_rating":"R","small_cover_image":"http:\/\/s.ynet.io\/assets\/images\/movies\/The_Pianist_2002\/small-cover.jpg","medium_cover_image":"http:\/\/s.ynet.io\/assets\/images\/movies\/The_Pianist_2002\/medium-cover.jpg","state":"ok","torrents":[{"url":"http:\/\/yts.to\/torrent\/download\/5B35B2C94B288DD9F8970A38410975467BF662EE.torrent","hash":"5B35B2C94B288DD9F8970A38410975467BF662EE","quality":"720p","seeds":270,"peers":49,"size":"899.22
|
59
|
+
MB","size_bytes":942900511,"date_uploaded":"2011-09-03 19:37:22","date_uploaded_unix":1315035442},{"url":"http:\/\/yts.to\/torrent\/download\/3B66ADB093195AE1BC5A832352F9E41DD77CF980.torrent","hash":"3B66ADB093195AE1BC5A832352F9E41DD77CF980","quality":"1080p","seeds":251,"peers":48,"size":"2.00
|
60
|
+
GB","size_bytes":2147483648,"date_uploaded":"2012-10-31 18:41:56","date_uploaded_unix":1351662116}],"date_uploaded":"2011-09-03
|
61
|
+
19:37:22","date_uploaded_unix":1315035442},{"id":1125,"url":"http:\/\/yts.to\/movie\/a-beautiful-mind-2001","imdb_code":"tt0268978","title":"A
|
62
|
+
Beautiful Mind","title_long":"A Beautiful Mind (2001)","slug":"a-beautiful-mind-2001","year":2001,"rating":8.2,"runtime":135,"genres":["Biography","Drama"],"language":"English","mpa_rating":"PG-13","small_cover_image":"http:\/\/s.ynet.io\/assets\/images\/movies\/A_Beautiful_Mind_2001\/small-cover.jpg","medium_cover_image":"http:\/\/s.ynet.io\/assets\/images\/movies\/A_Beautiful_Mind_2001\/medium-cover.jpg","state":"ok","torrents":[{"url":"http:\/\/yts.to\/torrent\/download\/831FD96B0363AB0038EC9427BC17C5911117C8E2.torrent","hash":"831FD96B0363AB0038EC9427BC17C5911117C8E2","quality":"720p","seeds":469,"peers":73,"size":"801.43
|
63
|
+
MB","size_bytes":840360264,"date_uploaded":"2012-09-02 01:15:24","date_uploaded_unix":1346505324},{"url":"http:\/\/yts.to\/torrent\/download\/9CA50DA836B52A6BCB06AAA91BB2478FD96F5DD0.torrent","hash":"9CA50DA836B52A6BCB06AAA91BB2478FD96F5DD0","quality":"1080p","seeds":245,"peers":42,"size":"1.04
|
64
|
+
GB","size_bytes":1116691497,"date_uploaded":"2012-09-02 01:21:18","date_uploaded_unix":1346505678}],"date_uploaded":"2012-09-02
|
65
|
+
01:15:24","date_uploaded_unix":1346505324}]},"@meta":{"server_time":1442339700,"server_timezone":"Pacific\/Auckland","api_version":2,"execution_time":"56.27
|
66
|
+
ms"}}'
|
67
|
+
http_version:
|
68
|
+
recorded_at: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 17:55:00 GMT
|
69
|
+
recorded_with: VCR 2.9.3
|