MaestroReviews

Deb and I are artists, painters actually. We go see films as often as once a week. That's right, we go to the theater and sit in a dark room with strangers to see movies. We rarely rent. We like "little" movies, foreign and documentary films. We try to stay away from mainstream and blockbusters whenever possible, but a couple sneak in each year. We seek out the obscure. We try to avoid violent movies, and that really limits our choices, most film makers seem to think violence makes a story interesting.
I try not to give anything away in the reviews, but offer an honest reaction.
We rate them 1~10, 10 being highest.

Sunday, December 4, 2011

The Descendants


Deb 5 Me 8

I’ve seen a couple film with Clooney, Perfect Storm and the Goats movie, and liked them both. I really liked this one too and he was a big part of the appeal, but again, it’s the kids. Where are they getting these child actors these days? There must be a Tiger Woods type camp or camps worldwide that are turning out these amazing creatures.

So we have a good story, set in a great location with a nice subplot. Overall a dramatic theme with a surprising amount of comic relief, almost enough that you forget it’s a drama. It also looks like it was shot on film. If it was shot in digital, and I think a few scenes were, then digital has arrived.

Deb sometimes has a problem with time compression, that players evolve or grow or transform from one state to another much too quickly; and she felt like that occurred here. I was okay with it, everybody was believable and it was easy to follow. A nice way to spend the evening.
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