{"id":5906,"date":"2011-07-13T20:36:21","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T01:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=5906"},"modified":"2011-07-13T20:36:21","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T01:36:21","slug":"on-pooh-anticipations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=5906","title":{"rendered":"On Pooh Anticipations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A really big movie is opening this week.<\/p>\n<p>No, not <i>Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part Two<\/i>.  I mean, yes, that&#8217;s the movie everyone&#8217;s talking about, but that&#8217;s not the one that I really really really want to see this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>That would be Disney&#8217;s new <i><a href=\"http:\/\/disney.go.com\/pooh\/\">Winnie-the-Pooh<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Six years ago I went to see the last Pooh movie, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=308\"><i>Pooh&#8217;s Heffalump Movie<\/i><\/a>.  I liked it.  It was great fun, even if it was aimed at an age much younger than mine.<\/p>\n<p>This <i>Pooh<\/i> movie, though.  This one looks to be more my speed:<\/p>\n<p><object class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QbFz--GCkOM?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QbFz--GCkOM?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Not a great fan of the Keane song in the trailer, though.  I did refer to that song, &#8220;Somewhere Only We Know,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/allyngibson\/statuses\/63190056692748288\">during the 30 Day Song Challenge<\/a> as &#8220;a song that bores [me] to sleep,&#8221; after all.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the movie has new songs by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheandhim.com\/\">She &#038; Him<\/a> (though the soundtrack album bills them by their names, Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward).  Songs like &#8220;So Long&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><object class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/daF6fV7BRfQ?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/daF6fV7BRfQ?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen no sign of Lumpy in any of the materials relating to the film.  And I wonder if Gopher will be in it; he&#8217;s not in the book, you know.  And Peter &#8220;Optimus Prime&#8221; Cullen isn&#8217;t doing the voice of Eeyore this time out.<\/p>\n<p>Minor quibbles.  And it does have Craig Ferguson in it!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Pooh!  And Pooh forgives a <i>lot<\/i>.  Pooh will have his adventures, and there will be great messages about friendship and companionship and believing in each other.  It will be funny and exciting and funny.  And yes, I&#8217;m repeating myself, but that&#8217;s how things work in the Hundred Acre Wood.<\/p>\n<p>Suffice it to say, this is the movie I most want to see this summer.  <i>Thor<\/i>?  Meh.  <i>Transformers: Dark of the Moon<\/i>?  Well, it was free&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But <i>Winnie-the-Pooh<\/i>?  Bouncy bouncy bouncy!<\/p>\n<p>I might even deign to wear the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=5833\">Doctor Pooh<\/a> t-shirt&#8230; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/images\/pooh-movie-poster.jpg\" width=\"510\" height=\"755\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A really big movie is opening this week. No, not Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part Two. I mean, yes, that&#8217;s the movie everyone&#8217;s talking about, but that&#8217;s not the one that I really really really want to see this weekend. That would be Disney&#8217;s new Winnie-the-Pooh. Six years ago I went to see<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=5906\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Pooh Anticipations&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[80,217,81],"class_list":["post-5906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-she-him","tag-winnie-the-pooh","tag-zooey-deschanel","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}