{"id":611,"date":"2008-08-06T17:01:15","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T21:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=611"},"modified":"2008-08-06T17:01:15","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T21:01:15","slug":"mamma-mia-2008-phyllida-lloyd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/611","title":{"rendered":"Mamma Mia (2008, Phyllida Lloyd)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so I went overboard in saying this was better than <em>Across The Universe<\/em>, but I did find it surprisingly tolerable and entertaining and I enjoyed looking at the cool lighting and listening to the songs and watching Meryl Streep whenever she was around, and my mind wandered whenever she wasn&#8217;t.  There was one great song (not counting the camp greatness of Pierce Brosnan&#8217;s awfully earnest singing), and the rest were pretty so-so.  Movie is getting mad hatred from web-based critics, fans of good films and classic musicals, but I didn&#8217;t go to the screening expecting a good film nor a classic musical so I left unoffended.  In that sense, it may not have been better than <em>Across The Universe<\/em>, but it was better than <em>Indiana Jones 4<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so I went overboard in saying this was better than Across The Universe, but I did find it surprisingly tolerable and entertaining and I enjoyed looking at the cool lighting and listening to the songs and watching Meryl Streep whenever she was around, and my mind wandered whenever she wasn&#8217;t. There was one great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[507,80],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-meryl-streep","tag-musical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}