That will end up in a red envelope in my PO box.
― that's not funny. (unperson), Thursday, 26 May 2011 23:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
Weirdly difficult to buy Clooney as a dad.
― jaymc, Friday, 27 May 2011 00:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
screenplay co-written by Jim Rash, who plays the dean on Community
― gargle on my nuts (some dude), Friday, 27 May 2011 00:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
Prefer Buchanan tbh
― ...wow! (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 27 May 2011 00:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
Would still watch it and probably enjoy it too though, to be fair
― ...wow! (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 27 May 2011 00:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
This is the film Louis CK turned down because it meant too much time away from his kids, no?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 27 May 2011 01:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
i'll def take my mom to see this!
― J0rdan S., Friday, 27 May 2011 01:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
i'm not sure that there's ever been a movie set in hawaii where the #1 reason wasn't "million dollar paid vacation to hawaii"
― J0rdan S., Friday, 27 May 2011 01:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
or "pearl harbor"
― more horses after the main event (Eazy), Friday, 27 May 2011 02:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
no, not even that
― J0rdan S., Friday, 27 May 2011 02:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
Louis CK would have killed in that role.
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Friday, 27 May 2011 02:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
This looks like it's right down some alley that's nowhere near my alley.
― Aimless, Friday, 27 May 2011 02:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
weird that this is the first movie he's directed since Sideways, wonder why it took 7 years
― gargle on my nuts (some dude), Friday, 27 May 2011 03:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol, " He also teamed up once again with writing partner Jim Taylor to write a draft of the screenplay for the film I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, a comedy directed by Dennis Dugan starring Adam Sandler and Kevin James."
― love you like a frat kid loves Cake (Tape Store), Friday, 27 May 2011 03:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol @ not a single brown or asian person in trailer
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 27 May 2011 04:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
so people were pretty into this i think? lotta raves about its depth
― cheerful sound ur (schlump), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 13:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
Was about to say I don't think I'll ever like anything by Payne again, but then I remembered this:
― Gus Van Sant's Gerry Blank (Eric H.), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 13:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
i've been dragging my feet on catching up w/that because of the efforts of procuring it, particularly in light of not being as interested in everything that accompanies it -- hadn't realised it was on youtube, so thanks!
― cheerful sound ur (schlump), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 13:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
A.O. Scott ran out of adverbs praising this thing today.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 16:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
suspiciously so.
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 17:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
the truth is probably between Scott and J. Hoberman.(in the middle)
― nostormo, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 17:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
My fondness for Citizen Ruth and Election is all that's keeping me from consigning Payne to the Reitman circle of hell.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 17:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
There are times when you laugh or gasp in disbelief at what has just happened — an old man punches a teenager in the face; a young girl utters an outrageous obscenity; Mr. Clooney slips on a pair of boat shoes and runs, like an angry, flightless bird, to a neighbor’s house — and yet every moment of the movie feels utterly and unaffectedly true.
true american surrealism
― occupy the A train (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 17:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
george clooney runs in shoes!
― occupy the A train (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 17:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol
― ah, how quaint (Matt P), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 17:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
You know – angry, flightless birds always slip into their pairs of boat shoes.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 17:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
i can just imagine how all those "funny" scenes play out (ok, maybe i'm remembering some from the trailer) and... no thanks.
― ah, how quaint (Matt P), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 17:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
"To call “The Descendants” perfect would be a kind of insult, a betrayal of its commitment to, and celebration of, human imperfection"
is it better than Citizen Kane?
― nostormo, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 17:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
Reitpayne movies are such critnip.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 17:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
but but but "like an angry flightless bird" modifies "runs"
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 17:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
i'm excited for this cuz hawaii tho. edelstein's review seemed more trustworthy!
― occupy the A train (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 17:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
Its flaws are impossible to distinguish from its pleasures.
― buzza, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 17:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
that should obviously be on the poster, solemnly intoned in the tv spot, etc.
― occupy the A train (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 17:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
You're all right to be hearing alarm bells, but I thought it split the diff between Election and About Schmidt.
― dor Dumbeddownball (Eric H.), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 17:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
That'd be 2.5/4.
I've only seen one Jason Reitman movie -- really, Juno was not mandatory -- vs all four of Payne's, but I'd say it's pretty insulting to lump him in with JS, even if About Schmidt was kinda loathsome.
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 17:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
JR, grrrr
a young girl utters an outrageous obscenity
We already had this movie and it was called Kick-Ass. Is this better than that?
― i couldn't adjust the food knobs (Phil D.), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 17:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
creators of guilt-ridden slice of life angst starring inevitable Oscar nominees and Best Screenplay winners.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 17:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
xpost No.
― dor Dumbeddownball (Eric H.), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 17:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
I would totally screw Matthew Lillard over George Clooney, btw
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 18:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
An angry, flightless Lillard in boat shoes is my kind of evolutionary move.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 18:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
Stephanie Zacharek thinks this resembles Up in the Air way too closely.
That’s the thing about Payne: In pictures like Sideways and About Schmidt, he’s gotten away with the junkiest kind of sentimentality by packing deadpan gags around it, like ice around a dead fish.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 November 2011 14:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
Erudite white people suffering domestic strife in Hawaii. I wonder what Terry Gross will say?
― remy bean, Thursday, May 26, 2011 4:18 PM (5 months ago)
― PEDAL TO THE METAL GRANDAD parp parp (remy bean), Friday, 18 November 2011 19:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
Mr. Clooney slips on a pair of boat shoes and runs, like an angry, flightless bird, to a neighbor’s house
you know how angry, flightless birds are always running to their neighbors' houses
― Much Ado About Nuttin (DJP), Friday, 18 November 2011 19:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh hey domestic turkey next door can i borrow some worms? thanks i can't go fishing today on account of my awesome boat shoes that i don't want to get wet. thanks and * SQUAWK *
― PEDAL TO THE METAL GRANDAD parp parp (remy bean), Friday, 18 November 2011 19:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
missing the "angry" imo but otherwise excellent
― Much Ado About Nuttin (DJP), Friday, 18 November 2011 19:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
this is going to be this year's american beauty, huh?
― PEDAL TO THE METAL GRANDAD parp parp (remy bean), Friday, 18 November 2011 19:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
i've had to sit through this preview on multiple occasions and each time i hate it a little bit morethat turning point where it goes from family weeper --> lol clooney music is the WORST
― the MMMM cult (La Lechera), Friday, 18 November 2011 19:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol clooney music
yeah this is a subgenre already isn't it
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 November 2011 19:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
if this is this year's "American Beauty" I will probably see it once, enjoy it, and then refuse to ever see it again after everyone I talk to online savagely rips it apart for fear of getting Gumped
― Much Ado About Nuttin (DJP), Friday, 18 November 2011 19:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
Beau Bridges is now in a Broadway musical opp a Jonas Brother
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 January 2012 20:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
livin the life
― lag∞n, Monday, 30 January 2012 20:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
atop a Jonas Brother
― Burritos are one of the things I'm nostalgic about!!! (Eazy), Monday, 30 January 2012 20:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
Q.Were there any scenes that you thought were really funny that you had to cut because they were too funny?
A.Mr. Faxon: There’s a scene at the end of the movie where they’re spreading the mother’s ashes in the ocean, and it gets broken up by a cruise and a bunch of drunk guys. That was shot, it was funny. But they didn’t want to cut away from that very poignant emotional closure.
― Burritos are one of the things I'm nostalgic about!!! (Eazy), Sunday, January 29, 2012 12:09 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark
i might've loved the movie if they had left this in
thanks for the perspective gr80. i still think i wouldve preferred to see a movie about nonwhite hawaiians, i dunno
― Hungry4Ass, Monday, 30 January 2012 22:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah me too, but they decided to make a movie based on a book that was about rich haoles, and they did a p good job of it. the mom & daughter who's house they go over to and apologize for the pubes texts rang especially true to me-- feel like there really could have been more characters like that.
despite the scene where matt and him finally talk in the hotel suite, i feel like Sid was pretty useless overall, and suspect he had a more fleshed character in the book. same for the alzheimer's grandmother-- like there was no reason at all for her to have alzheimer's aside from setting up something for Sid to get punched in the face over.
i really loved how many lingering establishing shots there were of the mountains and the ocean and diff parts of urban honolulu.
― ⚓ (gr8080), Monday, 30 January 2012 22:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
i will see this again, may not have given it a fair shake
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 30 January 2012 22:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
I was totally all who is this comic relief kid re sid but then he started to make sense to me, def still feel like he couldve been 75% less ott
― lag∞n, Monday, 30 January 2012 23:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
never needs to be seen a second time by anyone
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 January 2012 23:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
ok, i've cancelled my netflix order, thx.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 30 January 2012 23:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
phew that was close
― lag∞n, Monday, 30 January 2012 23:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
Dr Morbius 1D0% OTM
― rubber belly hand necker (CaptainLorax), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 07:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
think i'm going to see it again.
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 07:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
― buzza, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 07:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
RUNNING
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 10:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
How could y'all not love the costumes in this?
― Burritos are one of the things I'm nostalgic about!!! (Eazy), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 12:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
terrible form clooney!
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 13:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
its hard to go balls out in those puppies
― Hungry4Ass, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
were he mid striking thered be NO PROBLEM
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
jeez clooney
― buzza, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
can we get Robert Forster to punch Aaron Sorkin in the face if he wins best adapted screenplay again?
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
sure np dr
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
Finally saw this. Um...it was very pretty to look at, and the music was lovely. Otherwise, it was about on par with, like, Kramer Vs. Kramer (i.e. fair-to-middlin' Oscar fodder). In a way, I was the prime audience to get my heart strings tugged hard after having several family members recently fade away in hospital, but it really didn't get to me on that level at all. I'm happy for Jim Rash that he won an Oscar. I just wish it had been for something better.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 04:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah i agree. i wanted this to be some kind of emotional blockbuster but i never got really involved with it. it was perfectly respectable and well-made but not super engaging.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 04:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
this movie was bogus
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 04:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
feel like he kind of bit the Michael Clayton ending
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 05:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
how so? i don't actually remember the last shot.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 05:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
i think "bogus" is actually a kind of brutal but fair term to apply to this film.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 05:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
ok wait now i remember. do you just mean it ends w/ a silent long take meant to make us wonder what the character(s) are thining? that's kind of tradition that goes back far beyond michael clayton though.
a.o. scott's incredibly enthusiastic review was really weird btw, and reads even weirder today.
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/movies/descendants-with-george-clooney-review.html?pagewanted=all
To call “The Descendants” perfect would be a kind of insult, a betrayal of its commitment to, and celebration of, human imperfection. Its flaws are impossible to distinguish from its pleasures. For example: after what feels as if it should be the final scene, a poignant, quiet tableau of emotional resolution and apt visual beauty, Mr. Payne adds another, a prosaic coda to a flight of poetry. Without saying too much or spoiling the mood, I will say that I was grateful for this extra minute, a small gift at the end of a film that understands, in every way, how hard it can be to say goodbye.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 05:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
i mean it's a kind of 400 blows gesture in a way.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 05:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
I wish more movies simply ran out of film and were forced to freeze.
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 11:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
...on George Clooney in sockless boat shoes
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 11:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
"bogus" is a good word. A dubious honor for Clooney to star in two of the most meretricious Oscar films of the last twenty years.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 11:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
There’s a scene at the end of the movie where they’re spreading the mother’s ashes in the ocean, and it gets broken up by a cruise and a bunch of drunk guys. That was shot, it was funny. But they didn’t want to cut away from that very poignant emotional closure.
You can't have humor interrupting very poignant emotional closure!
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 11:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
Still prefer both to Syriana.
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 11:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
DWH needs to reappreciate Kramer vs Kramer
someone get Sotosyn some friggin' boat shoes already
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 11:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm wearing a pair with argyles.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 13:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm not saying Kramer Vs. Kramer is bad, Morbs. It's just nothing terribly special, and surely not the best film of 1979 any more than The Descendants has one of the very best screenplays of 2011 (hopefully you'll forgive my dubiousness towards the decisions of the esteemed Academy).
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 13:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
Morbs agrees, I think.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 13:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
he liked Boat Shoes Vs. Boat Shoes more than a lot of us
Both end with the credits rolling over George Clooney as he stares thoughtfully into the middle distance
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's not the fact that they end with that kind of shot, but holding it for so long with the credits over it is something I can't remember seeing before MC
i considered barking a little in defense of kramer vs. kramer, yesterday. i remember it fondly, though i was only 12 at the time, but i decided that it's been too long for me to say with any certainty that i'd still like it. also, i thought there was a slight misogynist streak to the descendants, similar to what jonathan rosenbaum objected to in KvK.
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
I kinda think all the characters in The Descendants are equally miserable.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 15:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, May 22, 2012 9:02 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i'll agree that it works better in michael clayton.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 03:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
I found this kind of a snore, tbh. However I really loved seeing Hawaii shown in a 'hey people live here' way. Honestly I enjoyed it more once I ignored the story and just watched it as a travel documentary, lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 24 August 2012 15:33 (8 months ago) Permalink