{"id":1092,"date":"2005-07-11T16:58:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-11T20:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2021-03-06T15:47:06","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T19:47:06","slug":"transporter-2-gearing-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1092","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Transporter 2&#8221; Gearing Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/z070505.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/z071105transporter2.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"192\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/z070505.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">A few days ago<\/span><\/a><\/b><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> I made the statement, <\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial;\">&#8220;Sequels are rarely as good as the original.&#8221;<\/b><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> And yet I, like many of you, love to see sequels. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">On the weekend of <b>September 2<\/b>, I&#8217;ll probably be in a theater watching <em><b>Transporter 2<\/b><\/em>. The <b>original<\/b> was an <b>unexpected toddy<\/b>. <em><b>The Transporter<\/b> <\/em>not only <b>did better at theaters than was expected<\/b>; it also was <b>a hit with the dvd crowd<\/b>. So much so, that a <em><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B0009VBTNM\/ref=ase_craizabls\/103-7710268-2670268?v=glance&amp;s=dvd#product-details\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Transporter Special Edition dvd<\/a><\/b><\/em> is in the works.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">I thought<em> <b>The Transporter<\/b><\/em> would be an enjoyable way to spend an hour and a half, but was surprised at just <b>how much fun<\/b> it turned out to be.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">Much of that enjoyment was the result of <b>Jason Statham<\/b> in the lead role and the<b> over the top action<\/b>.\u00a0 Well, I&#8217;m happy to say that both will be back in full force.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I made the statement, &#8220;Sequels are rarely as good as the original.&#8221; And yet I, like<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25390,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions\/25390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}