08-23-2023, 09:10 AM
I watched Ticket to Paradise on a flight. Clooney and Roberts are charming enough. But I need to research why it was made. Read to credits to see if it was legit just a tourism ad x money laundering.
There’s this running plot through the movie about a lake house and how it trigger their divorce. Little by little it’s peppered in that it burnt down. How it’s metaphorically and literally their marriage. How Clooney kept the land with hopes of rebuilding. Etc. So in any story, that’s the ending. They rebuild the house and marriage. But the last minute, they decide to stay in Bali? A place so magical their also abandoned her career to live there. Spend 90 or so minutes seeing famous Hollywood actors learn about the culture and visit sites… except, it’s not Indonesia. Per the credits, it’s filmed in Australia with CGI’d in landmarks. This is endgame actor shit. They pay you to vacation and ten minutes a day you read lines.
From what I can tell, this is the director’s thing. He’s done The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Mamma Mia, too. Good gig.
There’s this running plot through the movie about a lake house and how it trigger their divorce. Little by little it’s peppered in that it burnt down. How it’s metaphorically and literally their marriage. How Clooney kept the land with hopes of rebuilding. Etc. So in any story, that’s the ending. They rebuild the house and marriage. But the last minute, they decide to stay in Bali? A place so magical their also abandoned her career to live there. Spend 90 or so minutes seeing famous Hollywood actors learn about the culture and visit sites… except, it’s not Indonesia. Per the credits, it’s filmed in Australia with CGI’d in landmarks. This is endgame actor shit. They pay you to vacation and ten minutes a day you read lines.
From what I can tell, this is the director’s thing. He’s done The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Mamma Mia, too. Good gig.