I can kinda feel like I'm choking up at a couple sad scenes but that doesn't make a movie
― rubber belly hand necker (CaptainLorax), Monday, 30 January 2012 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
otm but this was def better than up in the air
― ⚓ (gr8080), Monday, 30 January 2012 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
it was p good imho, not w/flaws but def had some level of insight going on
― lag∞n, Monday, 30 January 2012 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
the thing I guess I thought was interesting abt it was the take on ripening karma, like all the things he attempted to ignore for so long came back at him and there wasnt really anything he could do abt it, he had to deal w/it, he was trapped by circumstance, it wasnt just an emotional reality
― lag∞n, Monday, 30 January 2012 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
also the whole political aspect of the sale of the land i thought was shown really well just from a v experiential pov
― lag∞n, Monday, 30 January 2012 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
― lag∞n, Monday, January 30, 2012 1:42 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
really? i remember there being only a few bits about this.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 30 January 2012 19:47 (twelve years ago) link
yeah thats what I liked abt it was v ordinary like in the flow of clooneys life, v show dont tell
― lag∞n, Monday, 30 January 2012 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
I mean political on a macro as well as familial etc level
bau bridges character I thought was a v true to life type of dude who couldve easily been written for lolz but was instead allowed to shine in all his depressed passive aggressive glory
― lag∞n, Monday, 30 January 2012 19:55 (twelve years ago) link
it was kind of lol imagining his character as bizzaro-world jeffry lebowski
― ⚓ (gr8080), Monday, 30 January 2012 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
more like real world lebowski, now that I think abt it maybe that was the intention
― lag∞n, Monday, 30 January 2012 20:02 (twelve years ago) link
the dude would jive well in Hawaii.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 30 January 2012 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
Beau Bridges is now in a Broadway musical opp a Jonas Brother
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 January 2012 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
livin the life
― lag∞n, Monday, 30 January 2012 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
atop a Jonas Brother
― Burritos are one of the things I'm nostalgic about!!! (Eazy), Monday, 30 January 2012 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
never needs to be seen a second time by anyone
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 January 2012 23:09 (twelve years ago) link
ok, i've cancelled my netflix order, thx.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 30 January 2012 23:12 (twelve years ago) link
phew that was close
― lag∞n, Monday, 30 January 2012 23:17 (twelve years ago) link
Dr Morbius 1D0% OTM
― rubber belly hand necker (CaptainLorax), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 07:02 (twelve years ago) link
think i'm going to see it again.
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 07:19 (twelve years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-h62fEE11dvs/TuZRhD3h7NI/AAAAAAAAIhM/yRpztwRSqk8/s1600/George-Clooney-Running-in-Hawaii-520x736.jpg
― buzza, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 07:55 (twelve years ago) link
RUNNING
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 10:50 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
terrible form clooney!
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 13:44 (twelve years ago) link
its hard to go balls out in those puppies
― Hungry4Ass, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
were he mid striking thered be NO PROBLEM
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
jeez clooney
http://www.fresnobeehive.com/archives/george_clooney300-thumb-300x400.jpg
― buzza, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
sure np dr
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
this movie was bogus
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 04:59 (eleven years ago) link
feel like he kind of bit the Michael Clayton ending
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 05:12 (eleven years ago) link
how so? i don't actually remember the last shot.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 05:28 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
...on George Clooney in sockless boat shoes
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 11:32 (eleven years ago) link
"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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
Still prefer both to Syriana.
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 11:34 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
I'm wearing a pair with argyles.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 13:43 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link