Alexander Payne + Clooney + Hawaii = The Descendants

i've had to sit through this preview on multiple occasions and each time i hate it a little bit more
that turning point where it goes from family weeper --> lol clooney music is the WORST

lol clooney music

yeah this is a subgenre already isn't it

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

have you seen Up in the Air? It's worse.

i said on the other thread that i've liked (softly) everything payne has done, but this line from hoberman's review gives me the big fear: Still, save for a reflexive response to the spectacle of “girlfriend in a coma” (ironically, the best scenes are the solos Clooney directs at comatose Hastie—moments that make clear what is otherwise implicit), it left me cold. The pathos is as unearned as the protagonist’s privilege.

I have not seen "Up in the Air"; that got savaged before I had the chance to see it.

yah, ditto

ppl shld stop making movies

The Dean from Community co-wrote this

i want to hear gr8080's take on this

Hey, Hugo has street urchins if that's what you like in a movie.

i'm looking forward to this, although i'm not raising my expectations too high.

payne has a streak of boring, especially lately, but he's a real good director i think.

i liked this! shailene woodley was really good i think, also she is really hot

I hope you're under 30

No, but luckily she is.

the triviality of this film is snowballing since I saw it 5 weeks ago

it was better than i thought it would be, though most of the humor didnt work imo

@ the time it made me want to go read my law school notes on the rule of perpetuities, which of course i absolutely did not do

I hope you're under 30

― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Friday, January 6, 2012 8:23 PM (44 minutes ago)

she's a year and a half younger than i am

go for it

i thought her character was the best part about the movie - her decency, and the way she supported her family, the whole thing seemed very loose and natural - not gonna win an oscar or anything but i thought it was a nice performace for the kid. had to be one of her first major film roles?

Didn't buy her as a wild child by scene #2, but I'll blame the script on that, not her.

yeah the contrast between her first scene and the rest of the movie was pretty odd, kind of surprised they didn't go back to that or even allude to it besides when she talked to her mom. that's not to say i didn't buy that someone who acted the way she did for 90% of the movie couldn't be more of a wild child in other parts of her life - she's only 17 and seemed less like an addict than just a girl with a wild side. "drugs" in clooney's dad-speak probably meant "weed"

This and Beginners are the worst movies of the year because they actually try to Say Something.

we disagree semiviolently on Beginners, but Shame & We Need to Kill Kevin Now fail at Saying Something much more foully than either of your suggestions.

We love each other because we disagree on what we hate.

xxp
does it? i've been removed from the film hype cycle long enough now that i was able to walk into this without knowing a thing about it other than clooney was in it (my mom took me). unable to react to any of that, it seemed like a nice, harmless little movie, and i thought it avoided the sap and other traps it easily could have fallen into

my best friend just a couple weeks ago lost his mother in a similar fashion, so maybe i was biased in that way

It's not as poisonous as Up in the Air, true.

and it covered itself in sap.

OK, so Morbs likes Beginners, I like Kevin and Alfred likes "Countdown." Tie a bow on it.

(I'm cool with settling on Shame as the worst relevant movie of the year.)

every scene of talking 2 an unconscious person is p lame but not like unforgiveable

i still havent seen up in the air, & may never

My take.

we’re told, over and over, to concentrate on his star qualities, his confidence.

Pretty much how I feel about Pitt in Moneyball to the letter.

With all its flaws Moneyball offers a better star turn.

No, just less opportunity for its star to be embarrassing (or much of anything).

I still prefer him in TOL but I wasn't embarrassed watching him in Moneyball the way I was with Clooney in his last 67 movies.

Eric, did you read the NYT Lim piece on Pitt? It contends that Beane was a stretch for him.

I didn't believe a word of it, despite the rhetorical filigrees. The role is written as/for a roué.

while i've got all the gays in one place, has clooney ever looked this bad? given the wife's state, the news of infidelity, and the decision to be made wrt the land, i suppose they were going for the haven't-slept-in-weeks look

Syriana

Unless nail-devoid hipster of the state is a look now.

well, "looked this bad" in the heteronormative Oscar-nom way, you mean.

I think he's a toadstool with good skin and hair products.

Clooney likes to play slovenly or humiliated, in those mentioned and Intolerable Cruelty (prob my fave role of his after Out of Sight).

He peaked early, then.

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kzclccCKzS1qbs6n7o1_400.jpg

who's the pretty girl on the left?

Kristy McNichol

lookit the gel glistening!

did not find much to take away from this movie. i think i was immediately turned off since literally everyone in the movie was kind of an asshole, and im not really sure making someone act that way is really a substitute for a convincing character.