If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.
... View MoreIt isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.
... View MoreAll of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
... View MoreGreat movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.
... View MoreI wonder why they even bothered to throw this together? Actually I don't wonder at all, a paycheck is a paycheck.
... View MoreWell, while seeking your sunset leisure, your guys had polluted all the way from the very start to the end. In order to dramatize this bore-you-to-death film and tried to find some match from what the story described, you guys purposely found a big polluter RV to get the effect of two old geezers on a RV with busted engine that burned oil en route. We saw it blew out blue or black smog from its rear exhaust pipe, polluted the air with heavy smog and forced lot of people to inhale anywhere it went. What a terrible scene that almost choked me at the same time during watching. The dialog between the old couple not only uninteresting but also awkwardly contrite. Think about it, if you yourself were like the wife who still got a working brain and your hubby got early stage dementia, often lost in his own world of nothingness, so you had to keep talking to him, almost non-stop, trying to get him focus and didn't travel to the forth dimension, and your conversation would be kept interesting? Give me a break! The only high point of this film was when they met two young lowlifes trying to rob them, other than that, there's nothing worth keeping your interest. The dialog between the old couple with their adult son and daughter.....you think it would be interesting enough to keep you interested? NO! The only thing I'd like to complement on this movie is the rareness of some independent film makers still had the guts and interest making some least commercialized films, without the least use of stunt men, the least CGI special effect, without explosions, not too many dirty words that most movies churning out Hollywood, the F word seemed to be the major dialog in every scene. But shooting a movie with almost bare-bone like story, especially with one of the two main characters always seemingly in never-never land, you do need a huge heart to embrace it, to prove how kind and decent person you are. Me, a fat chance.
... View MoreThese two titans of the performative arts bring to life a runaway couple setting out on a voyage in their trusty old RV called The Leisure Seeker. What starts as an expedition of fun turns quickly into a bittersweet exploration of love and memories.By far the greatest moments in The Leisure Seeker are when Donald Sutherland and Helen Mirren are flaunting their talents and sinking their teeth deep into their characters. To which are grounded but somewhat fluffed up representations of the reality, none the less they are resonating depictions and still hold some honesty towards the harshly real effects that dementia has. It's through this exploration of dementia that the film achieves its most heartrending moments, delivering touchingly melancholic lines of dialogue, punched home by the effective subtleties of the winning performances from Mirren and Sutherland. Both convey the love and challenging nature of this sort of relationship and help bolster the poignancy of this story, even though it is certainly one that has been explored with more finesse.Sutherland's character is key to understand the messages behind the films normality, as he speaks of Hemingway and the falsely perceived banality of his simple writing technique. There is certainly a case to be made here for that perceived banality of these characters, challenged by the show of memories and John's (Sutherland) life before the illness. Mirren's cartoon accented Ella still holds all the complexity that drives the plot forward but stifling the growth and journey of the two leads is the uneven direction. As though the film is caught between arthouse deeply personal story of dementia and Adam Sandler's latest flick. It's never quite sure of what it wants to be, and the feel-good tone makes it all the more confusing, resulting in a unengagement with a good portion of the film.This unengagement leads to a natural sigh of boredom as you watch the film push its clumsy emotional manipulation, but none of it lands or swoons. Thankfully there are certainly a few select moments that truly are tear-jerking, saved by an enthralling ending that leaves the film on a high note at the least. While The Leisure Seeker is unsure if it's seeking leisure or something more insightful, it does deliver on the most part in being a touching exploration of love and more importantly dementia and the effects it has, with two outstanding performances that are wasted on stale direction.
... View MoreI love it,funny and it's all about in our lives. Love,respect,compromise,listening and even more... anyway love till end whatever comes...
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