Come Anticipate Up in the Air: Jason Reitman, George Clooney, sad songs

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Personal note, a friend of mine, without a record or anything, has a big song in the movie.

Squash weather (Eazy), Sunday, 20 September 2009 17:18 (3 years ago) Permalink

Just remembered that I started the "come anticipate Leatherheads" thread, and that didn't turn out so well.

Squash weather (Eazy), Sunday, 20 September 2009 17:21 (3 years ago) Permalink

this movie is some BS imo

fountain bleaut (s1ocki), Sunday, 20 September 2009 17:26 (3 years ago) Permalink

dont think im seeing anything involving jason reitman anymore

johnny crunch, Sunday, 20 September 2009 17:28 (3 years ago) Permalink

got burned by jennifer's body eh

fountain bleaut (s1ocki), Monday, 21 September 2009 02:25 (3 years ago) Permalink

I really liked it!

Simon H., Monday, 21 September 2009 02:43 (3 years ago) Permalink

Jeffrey Wells loved UitA, so it's suspect.

A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Monday, 21 September 2009 03:30 (3 years ago) Permalink

I esp. really liked the use of actual recently-fired people, who actually take up a pretty significant chunk of screentime. I expect most haters are probably thinking along these lines:

The jet-set dislocation of a moneyed frequent flyer is the presiding metaphor, as a Golden Club prick (George Clooney) who makes his living firing people and delivering relationship-whittling motivational speeches is made to face his own emotional isolation. Clooney's early scenes with Vera Farmiga promise sexy, satirical amorality, but it soon becomes clear that the actor's attempts to suggest emptiness behind handsomeness are really an excuse for narcissistic cuteness, just as Reitman's use of the crumbling economy is quickly exposed as white noise for yet another tale of an aging bachelor's redemption. (from the Slant blog.)

Simon H., Monday, 21 September 2009 04:53 (3 years ago) Permalink

the interviews were a totally shameless attempt to give weight and significance to something totally facile imo

why not just show clips of interviews with holocaust survivors while you're at it

fountain bleaut (s1ocki), Monday, 21 September 2009 05:35 (3 years ago) Permalink

the clips are a direct result of the job that most of the principal characters perform, and also further underline that clooney's "burn everything" mythos is bs by pointing out that losing everything blows.

but anyway the movie basically lives or dies on yr ability to not to claw clooney's character's eyes out.

Simon H., Monday, 21 September 2009 06:42 (3 years ago) Permalink

Jeffrey Wells loved UitA, so it's suspect.

― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Sunday, September 20, 2009 11:30 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Morbius OTM. Did Wells complain about anybody's weight in his review?

Pancakes Batman (Pancakes Hackman), Monday, 21 September 2009 12:24 (3 years ago) Permalink

oh vera my vera

goole, Monday, 21 September 2009 15:46 (3 years ago) Permalink

the clips are a direct result of the job that most of the principal characters perform, and also further underline that clooney's "burn everything" mythos is bs by pointing out that losing everything blows.

but anyway the movie basically lives or dies on yr ability to not to claw clooney's character's eyes out.

― Simon H., Monday, September 21, 2009 2:42 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i like clooney and thought he was fine here. he's not my problem with the movie really.

fountain bleaut (s1ocki), Monday, 21 September 2009 15:53 (3 years ago) Permalink

Anna Kendrick is in this! She was one of the only people who could act in Twilight, I hope she has the chops for this.

"apostrophe" is not Latin for "watch out for the S" (reddening), Monday, 21 September 2009 23:28 (3 years ago) Permalink

she was good.

fountain bleaut (s1ocki), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 02:36 (3 years ago) Permalink

I was wondering where I'd seen her before.

Simon H., Tuesday, 22 September 2009 03:06 (3 years ago) Permalink

he used my friends and sometimes-bandmates music in the trailer for this (and potentially four other songs in the movie)

akm, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 05:50 (3 years ago) Permalink

actually, I have discovered they have two songs on the soundtrack as well (http://www.myspace.com/charlesatlasnyc).

akm, Wednesday, 23 September 2009 22:00 (3 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

Don't worry about the hyped Recession Relevance angle -- it's another dramedy about how willfully single people are subhuman. Marriage Is All You Need.

Feingold/Kaptur 2012 (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 03:36 (3 years ago) Permalink

the interviews were a totally shameless attempt to give weight and significance to something totally facile imo

totes magotes

Feingold/Kaptur 2012 (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 03:44 (3 years ago) Permalink

Seeing this tomorrow. Can't wait to love it.

really senile old crap shit (Eric H.), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 15:29 (3 years ago) Permalink

im glad we're on the same page with this BS morbs :D

ankles (s1ocki), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 15:30 (3 years ago) Permalink

nice try, Eric, but I wdn't bet on it.

Farmiga & Clooney had nice sex-comedy chemistry, too bad this wasn't the right movie. The best line in it is "Well, I don't."

Feingold/Kaptur 2012 (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 16:03 (3 years ago) Permalink

You caught me. I was being facetious. I'll settle for it being less excruciating than that Kimya Dawson shit in Juno.

really senile old crap shit (Eric H.), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 16:11 (3 years ago) Permalink

i love you dr. morbius!

horseshoe, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 16:31 (3 years ago) Permalink

it isn't entirely un-amusing - the first 30 mins is pretty fun - but it is basically "away we go" with more airports.

ankles (s1ocki), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 16:35 (3 years ago) Permalink

Don't worry about the hyped Recession Relevance angle -- it's another dramedy about how willfully single people are subhuman. Marriage Is All You Need.

The really insidious thing about this movie is that the first bit and the second bit are not at all treated as separate strands of thought. In fact, it's the latter that is being used to absolve the movie of responsibility about the former.

Ideologically, very much hated this movie. But it's also way more cunning than I'd have expected given it's basically Thank You for Smoking 2.

really senile old crap shit (Eric H.), Friday, 4 December 2009 03:51 (3 years ago) Permalink

Eric, why did I think we'd find common ground on this?

fortunately, this was my first (and I hope last) Jason Reitman film. It's not even as socially canny as Legal Eagles (which I believe is the only IVAN Reitman film I like).

Saw a quote from J.R. along lines of "oh I became a husband and father while developing this" blah blah fuck you.

Feingold/Kaptur 2012 (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 December 2009 06:30 (3 years ago) Permalink

blah blah fuck you

good review of any Jason Reitman flick imo

all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 4 December 2009 07:42 (3 years ago) Permalink

eazy is your friend the one reitman talks about giving him a song on cassette tape in his fresh air interview?

tehresa, Friday, 4 December 2009 08:19 (3 years ago) Permalink

It's the guy who did this song -- I think the cassette one is a different one, in the closing credits.

Action Orientation (Eazy), Friday, 4 December 2009 08:43 (3 years ago) Permalink

Eric, why did I think we'd find common ground on this?

I am anti- this movie, after all. I just give it credit for being a slick fraud.

really senile old crap shit (Eric H.), Friday, 4 December 2009 18:36 (3 years ago) Permalink

I think I really fucking hate this guy

unobtaintium (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 4 December 2009 18:41 (3 years ago) Permalink

I mean I wasn't gonna see this anyway but the political subtext of his previous two really bothered me (not to mention their smarmy, unearned "feelgood" undertones) and this sounds no different. plus I am tired of Clooney's schtick.

unobtaintium (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 4 December 2009 18:42 (3 years ago) Permalink

btw the indie music soundtrack to this movie is pretty bad and not even really appropriate to what's going on on the screen.

mod only knows who i'd ban without u (s1ocki), Friday, 4 December 2009 23:20 (3 years ago) Permalink

this is really that bad ?

oscar, Sunday, 13 December 2009 00:07 (3 years ago) Permalink

It's surfacy and kinda diverting; what's underneath is contemptible.

Feingold/Kaptur 2012 (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 13 December 2009 00:08 (3 years ago) Permalink

I was very confused by the Fresh Air interview with Reitman when he said he was people kept telling him that after being laid off, they felt they lacked purpose in life. Call me shallow, but my complaint with unemployment isn't that I'm bored or directionless, it's just that I'm broke. That's all, really. That's the only reason I even remotely WANT a job. I fucking hate jobs.

Cronenberg sleazy (kenan), Sunday, 13 December 2009 00:40 (3 years ago) Permalink

Anyway, if the movie has undertones of equating unemployment with being single, and that both conditions mean you lack purpose, then I don't think I have any interest.

Cronenberg sleazy (kenan), Sunday, 13 December 2009 00:44 (3 years ago) Permalink

No, it's Clooney's hardcore solitary bachelorhood that the film uses to encourage the audience to judge him badly (not so much the fact that he flies around the country terminating people).

Feingold/Kaptur 2012 (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 13 December 2009 01:08 (3 years ago) Permalink

i thought this was aight. not a bad performance in the whole thing, anna kendrick esp. terrific. really bad music tho.

goole, Sunday, 13 December 2009 01:22 (3 years ago) Permalink

No, it's Clooney's hardcore solitary bachelorhood that the film uses to encourage the audience to judge him badly (not so much the fact that he flies around the country terminating people).

― Feingold/Kaptur 2012 (Dr Morbius), Saturday, December 12, 2009 8:08 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ya the movie never really addresses that his job is ruining people's lives, it even sort of puts him on a pedestal for doing it with some charm

donde está mia farrow, fa la la la la, la la la la (s1ocki), Sunday, 13 December 2009 06:20 (3 years ago) Permalink

and ya the music honked

donde está mia farrow, fa la la la la, la la la la (s1ocki), Sunday, 13 December 2009 06:20 (3 years ago) Permalink

and how bad was the scene where ** SPOILER **

he goes to vera farmiga's house? it was tipped like a mile away. and then when he goes away all sadface and you hear her off-camera hubby go "who's that" and she's all "just SOMEONE WHO'S LOST"

argh

donde está mia farrow, fa la la la la, la la la la (s1ocki), Sunday, 13 December 2009 06:21 (3 years ago) Permalink

Definitely want to see this. Have to wait till next month before it's released here though.

DavidM, Sunday, 13 December 2009 10:50 (3 years ago) Permalink

I don't think I've seen this Anna Kendrick before, but at best she should be categorized as best supporting perky chipmunk.

SPOILER

"just SOMEONE WHO'S LOST"

Should've had AUTHOR'S MESSAGE blinking at bottom of screen.

well, the tip is when she's telling Natalie that "selling" is not "losing." I ctually didn't anticipate that twist because at the time I thought it was beyond stupid that they'd suggest those two characters could be a couple.

Feingold/Kaptur 2012 (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 13 December 2009 12:57 (3 years ago) Permalink

^oops, "seTTLing"

Feingold/Kaptur 2012 (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 13 December 2009 12:58 (3 years ago) Permalink

about how willfully single people are subhuman. Marriage Is All You Need.

I don't think this is entirely fair - Clooney's main trespass in the movie is cutting his family out, not his singlehood.

also not 1/100th the smarminess of Away We Go in effect IMO.

argh I hate that I am siding with the lame critics on this one

Simon H., Sunday, 13 December 2009 13:57 (3 years ago) Permalink

this fucking movie.

Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 December 2009 19:47 (3 years ago) Permalink

i saw an incredibly condescending & conventional film written by jason reitman

truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Monday, 11 October 2010 00:13 (2 years ago) Permalink

was flipping channels recently and resaw the part where Vera Farmiga tells himself to "be an adult" about her double life. Having him be clueless about her having a family was hands down the stupidest thing in the movie. How could they have spent so many nights together without her ever calling her little kids? They went to a damn wedding together!

da croupier, Monday, 11 October 2010 00:14 (2 years ago) Permalink

Not to mention she's clearly made to look like she's angling into his personal life. Such a weird "twist" to throw in.

da croupier, Monday, 11 October 2010 00:15 (2 years ago) Permalink

it's an awful awful movie and reitman is an awful awful filmmaker and human being.

balls, Monday, 11 October 2010 00:35 (2 years ago) Permalink

j0rdan otm go watch michael clayton (yeah the end is dum but it's 10x anything up in the air could hope to be)

all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Monday, 11 October 2010 02:06 (2 years ago) Permalink

i saw an incredibly condescending & conventional film written by jason reitman

― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.),

otm, but you forgot lazy

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Monday, 11 October 2010 09:24 (2 years ago) Permalink

Not to mention repulsive, vomit, and pedophilia--don't forgot those!

clemenza, Monday, 11 October 2010 23:18 (2 years ago) Permalink

nah, didn't forget em, movie didn't elicit any such strong emotions tbh.

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Monday, 11 October 2010 23:19 (2 years ago) Permalink

It could've been worse: Reitman says if Clooney hadn't worked out, he wanted Steve Martin in the role to make another Lost in Translation. And even worse than that, someone could get the idea from that and cast Clooney and Danny McBride in a Planes, Trains and Automobiles remake.

All that said, I liked About Schmidt better.

http://tinyurl.com/whitepony (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 23 October 2010 18:42 (2 years ago) Permalink

Clooney and Danny McBride in a Planes, Trains and Automobiles remake.

would watch

posting for godot (cozen), Saturday, 23 October 2010 18:55 (2 years ago) Permalink

I've seen this twice now and really enjoyed it both times. I wouldn't say it was amazing but I found Clooney's character compellingly conflicted. The talking heads were a little shoehorned but the top-down city/landscape establishing shots were beautiful. It was just a nice bit of morally conflicted, not-actually-happy-ending fluff.

Captain Ostensible (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 24 October 2010 05:41 (2 years ago) Permalink

Those establishing shots were really great.

No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Sunday, 24 October 2010 05:53 (2 years ago) Permalink

again i say, just watch michael clayton

all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Sunday, 24 October 2010 06:02 (2 years ago) Permalink

Just watch Koyanisqaatsi.

Captain Ostensible (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 24 October 2010 06:22 (2 years ago) Permalink

I liked this well enough as I was watching it, but the more distance I get from it the more uncomfortable it makes me. There's some good stuff in there though, not quite understanding all the hyperbolic reactions. I didn't see the twist about Farmiga's character coming at all, it floored me even if it was kinda cheap - and the ensuing scene (Clooney talking on the phone with her, the look of hurt on his face, her blame-shifting "well I'm an adult" response) was pretty devastating and real to me. I liked the initial portrait of Clooney as a guy who was actually delighted with his lonely, itinerant existence - that's something I haven't really seen in a movie before. Sam Elliott rules.

I sorta feel like it's a trap to start talking about Reitman, but I've disliked him a lot ever since I read an interview with him in a roundtable with some other directors and he came off like an ass (and also since I saw Juno LOL). It seems a lot of people here feel similarly, and I wonder if it makes some of you predisposed to tear apart a movie that you would ordinarily only find mildly distasteful. People make fun of his quotes about The Insider upthread, but I kinda see what he's saying (it's just that The Insider was a wildly inappropriate example for him to use). I like stories that humanize people with... morally... questionable careers, but having watched Thank You For Smoking not long after this (it was really excruciatingly bad) it seems more like he's really willing to let himself be seduced by that type of character to the extent that he'll go to bat for their most grotesque flaws, so long as they're really smooth and charismatic.. he's just not very honest about his anti-heroes. Goodfellas seems like a better model for how to do that kind of thing.

Way too much mopey acoustic guitar music.

Princess TamTam, Sunday, 24 October 2010 06:23 (2 years ago) Permalink

Fucking hate Juno, fwiw.

Captain Ostensible (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 24 October 2010 07:36 (2 years ago) Permalink

The movie is distasteful enough without knowing Reitman's CV.

raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 24 October 2010 12:29 (2 years ago) Permalink

I thought "Thank You For Smoking" (a crypto-conservative adaptation of a crypto-conservative novel) was fun at the time, and worth it all for the Rob Lowe smoking-in-space bits, but when said crypt-conservative makes three crypto-conservative films in a row, is it possible to separate the crypto-conservatism from the final products? Like, doesn't it just make him seem all the more cynical?

Next up is apparently another adaption, of the novel "Labor Day," and possibly an adaptation of a short story about football or something.

Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 24 October 2010 13:26 (2 years ago) Permalink

Joyce Maynard, I guess.

The dog days of August . . . All summer long, thirteen-year-old Henry kept hoping that something different would happen, but it never did.

Then, just as the Labor Day weekend gets under way, in the Pricemart where Henry′s mother, Adele, on one of her rare forays out of the house and into the wider world has taken him to buy pants for school, a bleeding man approaches Henry and asks for help.

Frank is a man with a secret, and a man on the run. Adele is a wounded soul whose dreams of family life and romantic dancing died years ago, even before her husband left her and their son. And Henry is a "loser" and a loner, a boy on the cusp of manhood who, over the next five days, will learn some of life′s most valuable lessons: how to throw a baseball, the secret to perfect peach pie, and the importance of placing others--especially those you love--above yourself.

Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 24 October 2010 13:28 (2 years ago) Permalink

what is crypto-conservative about up in the air again?

candid gamera (s1ocki), Sunday, 24 October 2010 17:00 (2 years ago) Permalink

or juno?

candid gamera (s1ocki), Sunday, 24 October 2010 17:00 (2 years ago) Permalink

im kind of sick of the idea that if character can have an abortion in a movie and yet doesnt, that makes it conservative. or the idea that family life can be like, good for a person. calling that shit "conservative" just seems like liberal hyper-sensitivity to me.

candid gamera (s1ocki), Sunday, 24 October 2010 17:02 (2 years ago) Permalink

i mean i can obviously see how those ideas could fit into a conservative program, but they're not conservative on their own.

candid gamera (s1ocki), Sunday, 24 October 2010 17:03 (2 years ago) Permalink

totally. i'm cool with abortions killing babies, but abortions killing films is where i draw the line.

No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Sunday, 24 October 2010 17:06 (2 years ago) Permalink

Agreed s1ocki.

Princess TamTam, Sunday, 24 October 2010 17:40 (2 years ago) Permalink

i saw this last night.

what exactly was the message of his backpack lecture? why would people pay to hear it?
how did he know vera's home address? i guess we assume he did some creepin on google or something?
how did he know where to mail anna kendrick's recommendation?
how is it remotely realistic that a dude with his schedule would fly one airline?
why did they decide to gank sam eliot's big lebowski scene and do it worse?

i mean i'm with yall on some of the contemptible messaging in this film but DAMN it's appalling that writing this lazy rarely gets called out like it should.

call all destroyer, Friday, 29 October 2010 20:54 (2 years ago) Permalink

^ real talk

what exactly was the message of his backpack lecture? why would people pay to hear it?

this one really bugged me, think i mentioned it upthread.

naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Friday, 29 October 2010 23:30 (2 years ago) Permalink

Those are great points! I never figured out the point of those lectures either.

Princess TamTam, Saturday, 30 October 2010 04:56 (2 years ago) Permalink

iirc we only ever saw his opening bit and never saw where he was going with it, ie nowhere

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 30 October 2010 04:59 (2 years ago) Permalink

"yall need a good backpack"

candid gamera (s1ocki), Saturday, 30 October 2010 15:19 (2 years ago) Permalink

i didn't pay that close attention, and it's been a while, but wasn't the lecture meant to be a business-world-self-help version of his business-world-accumulated wisdom about living without attachments, traveling lightly, whatever? every extra person or thing you're attached to weighs you down because it's like you're carrying it around, best limit yourself to no more than fits in a backpack (conveniently on-stage as prop)?

but who cares about that, people in this thread are not putting enough stress on more important things, like staring at vera farmiga.

j., Saturday, 30 October 2010 19:50 (2 years ago) Permalink

....But it wasn't her ass!

Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 30 October 2010 19:52 (2 years ago) Permalink

that truly is a downer

Nhex, Saturday, 30 October 2010 19:56 (2 years ago) Permalink

if Juno was conservative, what does that make Knocked Up? blee.

piscesx, Saturday, 30 October 2010 19:58 (2 years ago) Permalink

....But it wasn't her ass!

magic of film.

j., Saturday, 30 October 2010 20:48 (2 years ago) Permalink

10 months pass...

Love this thread.

Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 24 September 2011 03:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

Hate this thread.

clemenza, Saturday, 24 September 2011 03:03 (1 year ago) Permalink

Revived because while rewatching a bit at my parents' house earlier it reminded me why I like hotel bars more than most people.

Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 24 September 2011 03:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

Practically forgot I saw this until I watched 50/50 and remembered how painful it is watching Anna Kendrick on screen.

michael assbender (Eric H.), Saturday, 24 September 2011 03:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

i love dr morbs in this thread so much

horseshoe, Saturday, 24 September 2011 03:26 (1 year ago) Permalink

I wonder if there should be an anticipation thread for that new Cody/Reitman joint...ya know, for the discussion (i.e. lolz).

The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 24 September 2011 03:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

Revived because while rewatching a bit at my parents' house earlier it reminded me why I like hotel bars more than most people.

― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, September 23, 2011 11:09 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i kicked it in a hotel bar the other day; hotel bars rule

call all destroyer, Saturday, 24 September 2011 03:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

7 months pass...

Young Adult is really a pretty loathsome movie

Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 30 April 2012 15:53 (1 year ago) Permalink

I hope the Fannies made a shit-ton of money off of it tho

Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 30 April 2012 15:54 (1 year ago) Permalink

nah -- Charlize Theron was terrific.

Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 30 April 2012 16:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

As for The Other Movie, watching it again a few months ago reenforced the absurdity of the Farmiga plot thread. Why on earth is she written as someone who might spend her life with Clooney. If she's supposed to be a same-time-next-year lay why the fuck would she consent to spend a weekend with Clooney's family? It makes the "surprise" at the end of the movie even more preposterous and loathsome.

Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 30 April 2012 16:04 (1 year ago) Permalink

my issues are more with the overall construction of the movie - the story arc, the setting, the rote staging ("insert scene where main character stares meaningfully at the detritus of their life while innocuous indie-film-score music plays" etc), the predictable ending, the lack of actual jokes

xp

Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 30 April 2012 16:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

what about Young Adult

Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 30 April 2012 16:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

lol

Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 30 April 2012 16:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

Slipping back to the original topic. Clooney and Vera Farmiga somehow or other made Up in the Air watchable. They didn't make it sensible, because that would have been impossible, but their being onscreen for roughly 98% of the time kept me from turning it off. This is a mystery about movie stars; they have the power to cloud your mind - but in a good way.

Aimless, Monday, 30 April 2012 16:25 (1 year ago) Permalink


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