Cameron Crowe, Matt Damon, and ScarJo. Collectively they say, "WE BOUGHT A ZOO"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STXvAhrVP0U

you forgot leon from curb!

matt damon playin a lot of dads now

i hope the soundtrack is nothing but Tom Petty and Sigur Ros.

and I hope he takes all the animals on a road trip across America

i like all the actors in this more or less but

hoo boy

I am planning to like this but I am not sure

does this end with a monkey ripping Matt Damon's face off y/n

Elizabethtown - don't know
Vanilla Sky - tentative yes, but with caveats and asterisks up teh wazoo
Almost Famous - definitely yes, and i know i break w/ ilx on this one
Jerry Maguire - no way
Singles - yes
Say Anything yes

on balance pretty 'yes' for at least being interesting and in control of his medium, but 'no' for kind of boring subject matter.

i hope smoove will improvise some lines about shaking dicks, smart-ass mouths, champagne croissants, etc.

it's based on a novel by gerald mee. i don't think there's enough in the trailer to go on, the kid (the avatar for crowe) looks like a ponce, and thomas hayden church seems like he's been touched in his privates by an angel. on the other hand, bears and lions and zeebers.

is that a real lion/is the lion wearing make up
thomas haden church sounds like tom hanks
awkward pairing of 'i love the humans' with shot of 11 year old boy
scarlett johansson is probably perfectly nice but when you see her acting 'nice' it seems somehow false/ill-fitting

idk what kind of roles matt damon should take, his touchy feeliness is nagl

i am SO disappointed this is a movie and not an actual news story

like the idea of a random assemblage of seemingly unrelated celebrities who love animals got together and bought a zoo. damon's like "affleck and clooney laughed at me when i brought up the idea, but i heard scarjo and cameron crowe want to own a zoo too, let's do this.

Wow, Cameron Crowe sure does like to have characters who quit their jobs working for the man

If this is based on the book WE BOUGHT A ZOO, I predict it will be grrrreat!

Oh never mind, I just watched the trailer. It's gonna suck.

lol

Yeah I when I saw this thread this afternoon I was sort of excited and thought the cast looked great. I watched the trailer while walking home. :/ It looks awful.

And I like so many of the cast members too!

it looks pretty bad. hope springs eternal that it'll be Elizabethtown bad though.

Elizabethtown takes a lot of shit, but I love that movie.

it's terrible, but i've seen it way too many times to say it's terrible

Say Anything... - Like, but don't love it, even if it's regarded as a touchstone of Gen X films. It's a little precious.

Singles - Kinda don't like this one at all. Watched it a few months ago and reaffirmed my position.

Jerry Maguire - Only saw it once. Barely remember it apart from the scenes that have bled into pop culture.

Almost Famous - Didn't like it originally, but came around to it by the third viewing. Still no strong feelings.

Vanilla Sky - HATED THIS FUCKING MOVIE. The worst deus ex machina bullshit I've seen in my life.

Elizabethtown - My favorite Crowe film. One of the only accurate portrayals of southerners I've ever seen in something that wasn't actually a documentary. They're neither treated as yokels nor romanticized in silly ways. Both the father/son story and boy/girl story were twisty and engaging.

Hrm...I just realized my opinion of Cameron Crowe isn't as favorable as I thought.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmkVWuP_sO0

still funny

elizabethtown is a pretty terrible movie, guys. i can sorta see that there might be some rescuable element to its depiction of southerners, but you'd have to see past the two lead performances to get there, and they're really bad.