The Descendants

[CBStew]

It is good, every so often, to see a movie made for grownups.  George Clooney knows how to make a good movie.  I once thought there there was no such thing as a bad Steve Martin movie.  Boy, did he prove me wrong.  I have transferred that characterization to George Clooney movies.  Yes, I know.  The "Oceans" franchise was stupid.  But you have to admit that there were no pretensions about it.  They were only meant to be entertaining and they were.  But "O Brother Where Are You", "Michael Clayton" and the movie last year about the assassin in Italy, (I can't remember the title).  Not just entertaining, they were very good movies.  This movie is about a very ordinary man, who happens to be the beneficiary of a trust, along with his cousins, of a very large and beautiful piece of land owned by his Hawaiian royal ancestors before they started marrying Haolies.  Are they going to sell the property to local developers who will put up a resort and a golf course or to Mainlanders who will bring in a WalMart and a bowling alley?  No. That is not the drama.  His wife is critically injured in a boating accident before the titles come on at the beginning, and while he is mourning for her, he learns something about her from his daughter.  (No spoiler)   The movie is about how he deals with what he learns.  You have by now fully identified with him, so it is about how you would deal with what he learns.  Does he screw up big time?  A little bit?  Or not at all?  It is up to you to decide.

[Fork]

It is good, every so often, to see a movie made for grownups.  George Clooney knows how to make a good movie.  I once thought there there was no such thing as a bad Steve Martin movie.  Boy, did he prove me wrong.  I have transferred that characterization to George Clooney movies. 

Sounds like someone needs to see "The Men Who Stare At Goats".

[PenPho]

It is good, every so often, to see a movie made for grownups.  George Clooney knows how to make a good movie.  I once thought there there was no such thing as a bad Steve Martin movie.  Boy, did he prove me wrong.  I have transferred that characterization to George Clooney movies. 

Sounds like someone needs to see "The Men Who Stare At Goats".

"Burn After Reading"

[CBStew]

It is good, every so often, to see a movie made for grownups.  George Clooney knows how to make a good movie.  I once thought there there was no such thing as a bad Steve Martin movie.  Boy, did he prove me wrong.  I have transferred that characterization to George Clooney movies. 

Sounds like someone needs to see "The Men Who Stare At Goats".

"Burn After Reading"

Yeah?  Well I'll see your "Men Who Stare" and raise you "Up In The Air"!

[J. Walter Weatherman]

It is good, every so often, to see a movie made for grownups.  George Clooney knows how to make a good movie.  I once thought there there was no such thing as a bad Steve Martin movie.  Boy, did he prove me wrong.  I have transferred that characterization to George Clooney movies. 

Sounds like someone needs to see "The Men Who Stare At Goats".

"Burn After Reading"

"Burn After Reading" was a fine movie as long as you didn't expect to much from it.

I.e., if you didn't expect it to be another "No Country for Old Men."

[PenPho]

It is good, every so often, to see a movie made for grownups.  George Clooney knows how to make a good movie.  I once thought there there was no such thing as a bad Steve Martin movie.  Boy, did he prove me wrong.  I have transferred that characterization to George Clooney movies.  

Sounds like someone needs to see "The Men Who Stare At Goats".

"Burn After Reading"

"Burn After Reading" was a fine movie as long as you didn't expect to much from it.

I.e., if you didn't expect it to be another "No Country for Old Men."

It was a steaming pile of lazy shit like 30-40% of Coen Bros movies that work to discount great work like Fargo and No Country.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

It is good, every so often, to see a movie made for grownups.  George Clooney knows how to make a good movie.  I once thought there there was no such thing as a bad Steve Martin movie.  Boy, did he prove me wrong.  I have transferred that characterization to George Clooney movies.  

Sounds like someone needs to see "The Men Who Stare At Goats".

"Burn After Reading"

"Burn After Reading" was a fine movie as long as you didn't expect to much from it.

I.e., if you didn't expect it to be another "No Country for Old Men."

It was a steaming pile of lazy shit like 30-40% of Coen Bros movies that work to discount great work like Fargo and No Country.

So... 30-40% of the Coens' 15 films (that is, 5 or 6 of them) are not just "not as good as Fargo" or "merely average" or even "meh" or "sub-par", but actually "steaming piles of lazy shit"?

I'm gonna go with a simple "wrong" on this one.

[Bort]

It is good, every so often, to see a movie made for grownups.  George Clooney knows how to make a good movie.  I once thought there there was no such thing as a bad Steve Martin movie.  Boy, did he prove me wrong.  I have transferred that characterization to George Clooney movies.  

Sounds like someone needs to see "The Men Who Stare At Goats".

"Burn After Reading"

"Burn After Reading" was a fine movie as long as you didn't expect to much from it.

I.e., if you didn't expect it to be another "No Country for Old Men."

It was a steaming pile of lazy shit like 30-40% of Coen Bros movies that work to discount great work like Fargo and No Country.

So... 30-40% of the Coens' 15 films (that is, 5 or 6 of them) are not just "not as good as Fargo" or "merely average" or even "meh" or "sub-par", but actually "steaming piles of lazy shit"?

I'm gonna go with a simple "wrong" on this one.

"No, Pen."

[Tonker]

Watched this with the missus and really quite enjoyed it.  It's Chadpoison - you know... thoughtful, subtle, moving.  Clooney is outstanding - thoroughly, thoroughly credible.  Also, the girl who plays his oldest daughter (Shailene Woodley - it's okay, I checked, she's 20) is seriously cute and spends a fair portion of the film in a bikini.  So, that was nice.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

it's okay, I checked, she's 20

Before you ogled her? Or before you admitted to ogling her?

[Tonker]

it's okay, I checked, she's 20

Before you ogled her? Or before you admitted to ogling her?

During.

[Yeti]

I like how Tinker acts like he isn't a big Secret Life of the American Teenager fan

[Richard Chuggar]

I liked this movie

[Tonker]

I liked this movie

Really?  Seriously?  Really?