Comments on: Watch: Matt Damon and Cameron Crowe Get Animal Crackers In Trailer For ‘We Bought A Zoo’

By: jon

jon — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:51:06 +0000

I\’m with Kevin.

By: Erik McClanahan

Erik McClanahan — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:51:06 +0000

Agreed, looks very cliched, but Damon is incapable of giving a bad performance, and Thomas Haden Church and Scarlett Johansen both look good in this as well. It\’s gotta be better than Elizabethtown, right? (not exactly a high bar)

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:51:06 +0000

Have to laugh at him wanting to give his kids \”an authentic
American experience\” when this is adapted from a memoir about a family that took over Dartmoor Zoological Park in the English countryside. At least the real zoo is getting a sizeable donation from the filmakers.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:51:06 +0000

Agree with rotch too. Cliche festival. Will make money tough. Like, a lot.

By: Kevin Jagernauth

Kevin Jagernauth — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:51:06 +0000

Have to say, this looks awful.

By: Edward Davis

Edward Davis — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:51:06 +0000

i agree with Rotch. I do like the use of the Tom Petty cut though.

By: rotch

rotch — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:51:06 +0000

\’Hoppipolla\’ should be banned from every trailer or ad ever.

And, don\’t get me wrong, I like everyone involved and have sort of hight hopes for the film, but this trailer is so full with cliches that it deserves at least half the snark you spent on the Twilight trailer yesterday. I mean, the quitting scene a la Jerry Maguire, the cute girl, the angsty tween, \”This is what you want, it\’s not what I want\” gazing to the horizon, \”You don\’t need a lot of special knowledge to run a zoo, what you need is a lot of heart\”, \”I like the animals, BUT I love the humans\”… and so on.

By: Her brother

Her brother — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:51:05 +0000

Scarlett Johansson?
http://www.flickfilosopher.com/blog/2008/10/warning_stolen_biological_mate.html

By: padre

padre — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:51:05 +0000

A fat Damon looks uncomfortably like Philip Seymour Hoffman. As puffy as his gut is, most of the weight landed on his face. Nobody wants to pay to see that. He needs to get himself to the gym and uncover the A-lister buried under all the lard.

By: jimmiescoffee

jimmiescoffee — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:51:05 +0000

wow. don\’t know what to think. but at this moment…..bad.

By: Fred

Fred — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:51:05 +0000

@rotch
I do agree with your point and take on it; it\’s just a shame that so much weight (and apparent decisions to see or not see films) is given to trailers as they are very, very rarely indicative of quality films. They often make even some truly worthwhile films interchangeable with the I Don\’t Know How She Does Its of the world in those frequently unfortunate two minutes. Here\’s hoping that the cast and the Crowe touch of older days puts it over; I certainly won\’t be dissuaded by a trailer, no matter how bad it is. I remember being somewhat impressed by the Battle LA trailer last year and, well, we all know how that turned out.

By: Kim

Kim — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:51:05 +0000

I maybe one giant cliche, but this movie looks cute. Made me cry a little. Stupid Thomas Haden Church.

By: Ali

Ali — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:51:05 +0000

Horrible trailer…not intersted in this movie at all

By: rotch

rotch — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:51:05 +0000

@Fred

I think we most agree that most of the issues with this trailer have too do with some poor decisions by whomever edited it and that there is a chance that the movie could be better. But you have to agree that the editor made some real poor choices, and filled it with every cliche imaginable.

Despite the failure of Elizabeth town, I believe We Bought a Zoo has a significantly better cast and a more interesting story, so I still hold high hopes.

By: Fred

Fred — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:51:05 +0000

All the seasoned writers are surprised this is being sold in a cliched fashion? Crowe helped create many of the cliches of modern American cinema. How many good movies have had bad previews and vice versa and how would the trailers to Say Anything, Jerry Maguire and Almost Famous have been dissected if the blogosphere had been alive and well in those days? And truly, when has Crowe ever done anything that wasn\’t in significant part a sentiment fest? We\’re not talking about Gaspar Noe deciding to helm a Nicholas Sparks story here.