tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565734273521752262.post4902435946188962595..comments2023-06-24T08:51:10.386-07:00Comments on Half Sweet, Half Salty: The descendentsEstherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06721404161146084763noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565734273521752262.post-61924981993464722672012-01-25T09:37:23.526-08:002012-01-25T09:37:23.526-08:00I love you and I don't even know you. Please b...I love you and I don't even know you. Please be my medical counsel for all time. I actually liked the oldest daughter. Thought her really the best work in the film; thought that lovely Clooney did pretty well phone it in. As a sixth-generation farm girl, my heart was captivated by the land story, but then I stalked off in disgust when they totally punted. Shallow film is really no film at all. My ps, though, is that I never think actors should be nominated for playing anyone contemporary. They're mimics, not actors. (Yr sister already knows I'm a crank.) So I say NO to Meryl as Thatcher and Leo as Hughes or Hoover... Too many newsreels to study to make it an acting job...alicesroseshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11254106384744890336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565734273521752262.post-90725837857357061092012-01-24T19:16:20.354-08:002012-01-24T19:16:20.354-08:00I love that we all feel differently about the movi...I love that we all feel differently about the movies. what a bland world it would be if we all agreed! Just as addendum, very sad news that the academy hasn't even nominated Leo...perhaps he doesn't toe the line with them.....Estherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06721404161146084763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565734273521752262.post-84181657512813290872012-01-24T16:00:36.449-08:002012-01-24T16:00:36.449-08:00It gets more and more rare these days that I think...It gets more and more rare these days that I think a movie is great or even good--I thought Up in the Air just so so, but I thought The Descendants was fantastic. I felt it was so poignant and the humor was so deep. I loved the boyfriend--thought him a riot but not nearly as lame as initially perceived. And for once I thought Clooney was great. Normally he acts as though he's in some sort of coma but in this he seemed just right to me as someone dealing with all that. People behind me thought the actress doing the wife was amazing and I had to quote them the Whoopi line from Soapdish--actors don't like to play coma--they say it limits their range. I thought it was well written and the interesting thing was not how beautiful Hawaii looked but how few of the spectacular wonders were actually shown, more if it was highway ordinary in this movie. As for the medical stuff, I had no clue so point taken. I couldn't fathom the nod for Extremely Close, Incredibly Loud, Terminally Irritating....Nancy Frederick Sussanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16319437827096600883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565734273521752262.post-91203336505850067922012-01-24T07:04:01.516-08:002012-01-24T07:04:01.516-08:00Such a witty review! I will see it of course...may...Such a witty review! I will see it of course...maybe on an aeroplane??? But I wouldn't have known the medical mistakes if you hadn't so hilariously pointed them out!! Don't put that money on Leo - you know the Academy won't agree with you, perverse lot. Not long xoxoMozart's Girlhttp://www.mozartsgirl.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com