"The Descendants"

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Our 2011 retrospective continues this summer with Alexander Payne's "The Descendants," starring George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller, Beau Bridges, Nick Krause, Judy Greer, Matthew Lillard & Robert Forster. Serving as Payne's follow-up to his Oscar-winning "Sideways," it proved he was an Academy darling as the film received five Oscar nominations and won Best Adapted Screenplay, Payne's second. Did it deserve its accolades then, and how do we feel about it now? Join Isaiah Washington, Patreon guests Danny Jarabek, Cheyne Nomura (a Hawaiian native), and me as we discuss the performances, setting, story, editing, awards season run, and more as fireworks boom in the background during our Fourth Of July holiday recording (Also, apologies, but I didn't have my normal microphone setup so the audio may be a bit lackluster for this review). Thank you for all your support, and enjoy! Also, be sure to check out our other 2011 retrospective reviews for "War Horse," "The Help," "The Iron Lady," "Midnight In Paris," "The Tree Of Life," "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close," & "Moneyball." Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Next Best Picture podcast, and this is our review of The Descendants.
0:06.0	I'm sorry to bother you. I'm Matt King.
0:08.1	Yeah, come to pick up my daughter, Alexandra.
0:13.0	Alex?
0:14.0	Dad? What's up, dad?
0:17.5	What's up, dad? It's happening.
0:19.0	You need to come home and see your mom.
0:25.6	I'm the backup parent, the understudy. I thought you were supposed to be getting your act together.
0:27.6	I've been doing really well, actually. Nobody ever seems to notice that.
0:30.6	And with Elizabeth, my wife, the hospital, my daughter's attesting me.
0:34.6	Look who's here! Get out of my underwear, you freak. Oh, okay.
0:38.3	Back inside now.
0:39.3	Real good job you're doing.
0:42.3	We have to go through this thing together.
0:45.3	You and Scotty and me.
0:47.3	Dad, this is Sid. He's gonna be with me.
0:49.3	I'll be a lot more civil with him around.
0:51.3	SEP, bro.
0:53.3	Don't ever do that to me again. I have to go around and tell people lot more civil with him around. Is that, bro?
0:55.4	Don't ever do that to me again.
1:00.8	I have to go around and tell people what's happening, family and a few close friends.
1:02.5	I don't want to talk about mom with anyone.
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