Day 92: The Descendants

Directed By- Alexander Payne

Writer(s)- Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash; Based on the Book By- Kaui Hart Hemmings

Starring- George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Beau Bridges, Judy Geer, Matthew Lillard, Robert Forster

Critics Review- " "The Descendants" is one of the stranger and yet one of the more effective weepers in recent years."- Richard Roeper "Richard Roeper.com"

Rotten Tomatoes Rating- Critics- 89% Audience- 80%

Out a possible 5 stars- 5 stars

My Review-

At times I like certain George Clooney movies, from some of the Ocean movies, to Up in The Air, not counting his failed movie Batman and Robin. In this movie I believe George Clooney gives one of the best performances of his career. Being one of the movies nominated for Best Picture, at this years past Oscars, I still need to watch four movies to see who I think should have won best picture, and right now it is looks to be it will be a tough decision. I do not want to give much away on this movie, because I think it should be watched for how well the acting is in this film from Clooney, and Woodley. The films breakout star, Shailene Woodley normally plays a high school teenager on some ABC family show, that quite frankly I could care less about, the only clips I have seen were from the show The Soup, and in my opinion Woodley needs to do more big screen movies. She owned her character so well being the troubled daughter of Clooney character Matt King. This movie works so well because it deals with something that we can all relate too a family going through a crisis that they do not know how to deal with. Even though the movie is quite long, it would have hurt it if it was any shorter, it did have its funny moments, and more heartfelt moments. This movie also seemed like it was a family's journey to figure out how they would get through something like this, even though they had no idea how to deal with it. Yes the movie is set in Hawaii and most movies are all happy go lucky films set on this Island, but this movie does not do that, Clooney even mentions it in the opening monologue for the the film, in different wording, but the same idea. The movies soundtrack also helped the movie move along and kept it going. After watching the movie I would like to read the book, and what made me want to see this movie even more is Jim Rash from Community helped write it and seeing him do something more serious then a comedy makes me want to see what else he can do. Even though this one movie that will make you get teary-eyed or even make you cry, it is well worth it. George Clooney did give an Oscar worthy performance, and between watching three movies that had actors that were nominated and won Best Actor this year, I believe that, the Oscar should have gone to Clooney, this story was more relevant and something that people deal with on almost a daily basis, and he capture the movie with his performance, and one day I am hoping that he can win his Best Actor Oscar, because it was well deserved in this movie.