{"id":7754,"date":"2012-07-08T18:37:21","date_gmt":"2012-07-08T22:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=7754"},"modified":"2014-10-22T15:59:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T20:59:41","slug":"we-bought-a-zoo-2011-cameron-crowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/7754","title":{"rendered":"We Bought a Zoo (2011, Cameron Crowe)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A typically crap Crowe movie with big obvious pop music cues (in Crowe&#8217;s hammy hands, I understand why they&#8217;re called cues) and a big fat score by Jonsi.  Adapted from the real zoo-buyer&#8217;s memoir by Crowe and Aline &#8220;<em>Morning Glory<\/em>\/<em>27 Dresses<\/em>&#8221; McKenna.<\/p>\n<p>Adventure-craving newsman Matt Damon is sad because his wife Gwyneth Paltrow died from <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/7424\">plague<\/a>, so he buys a zoo from realtor JB Smoove, warms up somewhat to head zookeeper Scarlet Johansson (taking time out from her new career of having cameos in other people&#8217;s <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/7705\">superhero<\/a> movies), and tries to assure his brother (Tommy <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/280\">Sandman<\/a> Church) and moody kids that it&#8217;ll be a great adventure.  Spoiler alert: it is!  I might&#8217;ve spotted a big <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/103\">La Jetee<\/a><\/em> reference in the family-photos montage, but I looked away for a while, so maybe not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A typically crap Crowe movie with big obvious pop music cues (in Crowe&#8217;s hammy hands, I understand why they&#8217;re called cues) and a big fat score by Jonsi. Adapted from the real zoo-buyer&#8217;s memoir by Crowe and Aline &#8220;Morning Glory\/27 Dresses&#8221; McKenna. Adventure-craving newsman Matt Damon is sad because his wife Gwyneth Paltrow died from [&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":[1049,1592,452,1107,529,1294],"class_list":["post-7754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-cameron-crowe","tag-lions","tag-matt-damon","tag-monkey","tag-scarlett-johannson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7754","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=7754"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9459,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7754\/revisions\/9459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}