Thursday, December 15, 2011

THE DESCENDANTS

So awards season begins and The Descendants is on all the lists.  Maybe I was in the wrong frame of mind when I saw it but, it doesn't hold a candle to "The Help".

I suppose George Clooney playing an out of touch father is a stretch for him but, not award worthy.  Don't get me wrong he was good.  I didn't get bored.  The rest of the cast certainly pulled their weight.  It just didn't click with me.

To me the best part of the movie was to see a side of Hawaii I had never seen before.  Never been there and, the only images I've ever seen of this majestic place have been of landscapes, beaches and resorts.  I loved seeing the real neighborhoods showing me that real people live there.

The only feelings the movie stirred with me were an extreme dislike of a woman who lay dying.