{"id":2554,"date":"2012-06-30T17:12:46","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T22:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/?p=2554"},"modified":"2012-08-06T17:27:31","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T22:27:31","slug":"big-screen-rock-of-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2012\/06\/big-screen-rock-of-ages.html","title":{"rendered":"Big Screen: Rock of Ages"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of those “let’s make up a baloney plot as an excuse to sing these songs” movies (see also “Mama Mia”).<\/p>\n

It was just as bad as you can possibly imagine except for two things:
\n1) How awesome to hear all these songs again all one after the other.
\n2) Tom Cruise KILLS IT. Say what you will about him, but when he COMMITS to a role, he COMMITS. This was as thunderously over-the-top yet wonderful as his Tropic Thunder<\/a> performance. He’s the only one who doesn’t visibly appear to be lip syncing (even if they are all lip syncing to their own vocals\/recordings of these songs). He’s the only one that just outright goes for the ridiculousness of his part. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of those “let’s make up a baloney plot as an excuse to sing these songs” movies (see also “Mama Mia”). It was just as bad as you can possibly imagine except for two things: 1) How awesome to hear … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flicks","category-watchin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2554"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2578,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions\/2578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}