Alexander Payne + Clooney + Hawaii = The Descendants

that's why it's his OSCAR CLINCHER

Oscar statuette, sobbing, to Dr. Morbius: "Finally, someone who understands me!"

i want to hear gr8080's take on this

― PEDAL TO THE METAL GRANDAD parp parp (remy bean), Friday, November 18, 2011 9:35 AM (2 months ago)

i finally saw this!

everyone in Hawaii can't stop talking about how OTM they get what Hawaii is really like, and I def agree. it's more than a little weird that the first hollywood film to accurately depict modern day hawaii has so few non-whites, but its def a real part of Honolulu society-- right down to the "ocean club" they belong to (irl its the Canoe club, and as exclusive as an average country club).

i havent liked anything payne's done since election, and this wasnt anywhere near the best thing I've seen lately but I was legit moved at times.

was louis ck actually approached for this? that would have been awesome, but i enjoyed the cloonster.

need to know if DLH saw this yet

i felt like a learnt something about what it's like to live in a place i know nothing about, so i'm glad to hear it wasn't all nonsense.

i felt like a learnt something about what it's like to live in a place i know nothing about,

being the boat shoe in which George Clooney sticks his foot.

i was wearing boat shoes when i saw it.

I'm now semi-convinced Clowney will lose Oscar to French guy's teeth

As now-film-pundit Bret Easton Ellis tweets:
As I predicted in my December 3rd 2011 tweet: "The Artist" will win the Oscar for best picture, best director and best actor.

saw this in the theater with my mom. she was an absolute wreck during the ashes scene (she had done likewise with her mothers ashes two years ago) (plus tit took place where her and my dad - long since divorced - had their honeymoon).
might have been a mistake to take her to this one.

i thought it was a quality movie, but Clooney - last scene with his wife especially - felt a pretty flat.

i still haven't seen it but yeah my hawaii friends like it too, are relieved that someone finally put a recognizable version of non-waikiki-theme-park hawaii in a movie, etc.. plus my mom liked it. even just the trailer Looked Like Hawaii; the power lines against the sky and the roadside foliage and the slick leaves and everybody's clothes reminded me of the movies i made in high school (which were, haha, not set in hawaii). when i see it i'll post.

spoiler: the only big island scenes are at night, but there are a few shots of coral graffiti on the kaahumanu highway at dusk

Those shots are actually extreme close-ups of George Clooney's bare left sole.

coral graffiti on the kaahumanu highway at dusk

man last time i was visiting w/ my gf i almost suggested we make some of this, which i've never done. next time. sometime.

This movie was weak sauce. Up In The Air (Clooney) was better.

The Artist wasn't that good either.

I can kinda feel like I'm choking up at a couple sad scenes but that doesn't make a movie

otm but this was def better than up in the air

it was p good imho, not w/flaws but def had some level of insight going on

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

also the whole political aspect of the sale of the land i thought was shown really well just from a v experiential pov

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, January 30, 2012 1:42 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

really? i remember there being only a few bits about this.

yeah thats what I liked abt it was v ordinary like in the flow of clooneys life, v show dont tell

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

it was kind of lol imagining his character as bizzaro-world jeffry lebowski

more like real world lebowski, now that I think abt it maybe that was the intention

the dude would jive well in Hawaii.

Beau Bridges is now in a Broadway musical opp a Jonas Brother

livin the life

atop a Jonas Brother

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

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.

i will see this again, may not have given it a fair shake

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

never needs to be seen a second time by anyone

ok, i've cancelled my netflix order, thx.

phew that was close

Dr Morbius 1D0% OTM

think i'm going to see it again.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-h62fEE11dvs/TuZRhD3h7NI/AAAAAAAAIhM/yRpztwRSqk8/s1600/George-Clooney-Running-in-Hawaii-520x736.jpg

RUNNING

How could y'all not love the costumes in this?

terrible form clooney!

its hard to go balls out in those puppies

were he mid striking thered be NO PROBLEM

jeez clooney

http://www.fresnobeehive.com/archives/george_clooney300-thumb-300x400.jpg

can we get Robert Forster to punch Aaron Sorkin in the face if he wins best adapted screenplay again?

sure np dr