https://dorriolds.com/the-complete-list-of-the-academy-award-nominations/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-complete-list-of-the-academy-award-nominations Customized Solutions Based on Your Goals Fri, 09 Mar 2012 21:11:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://dorriolds.com/the-complete-list-of-the-academy-award-nominations/#comment-601 Fri, 09 Mar 2012 21:11:36 +0000 https://www.dorriolds.com/?p=2782#comment-601 “The Descendants” is a wonderful movie, no doubt about it. But given the mix of golden globe and Oscar buzz I expected way more.
The storyline and the premise of the movie is perfect. In fact, the tagline caught my attention enormously: “trying to reconnect with daughters.” That is exactly the type of movie I like. Instantly, I could tell this was a movie about character development and human connection, usually the type of movies with the greatest potential.
Unfortunately, it was merely decent, however, not special. It felt like the movie built up a lot potential, but failed to release it at a certain point within movie. The entire movie, for me, felt too introductory in nature. Not necessarily the plot, because the plot does evolve, however the overall “feel” of the movie felt preliminary to a bigger and much more dramatic event which never happened.
It’s hard to explain my feelings towards the movie because the fault wasn’t necessarily technical or specific. But it did linger around and distracted my viewing somewhat. I felt like there was still more to discover in both Clooney’s character and the character of his daughters. Also, I think this element alone impacted on Clooney’s performance. His performance was good, definitely, but again, because I felt like there was more to be explored, naturally, I also felt like his performance could have been added to (but not necessarily improved).
Given the Oscar buzz of this movie, I have to compare it to other movies of a similar nature. And unfortunately, I didn’t feel like there was sufficient link between the characters…although the potential to reach that connection was established, it was not acted upon in my opinion. Unfortunately I have to say there have been better developed “re-establishing connection” movies.
All in all, this is an enjoyable movie, but it is missing some important elements which deteriorates the viewing experience to some extent.
Have a nice day!
Debbie

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