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

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just begging to have a red No line thru it really

Suggesting "The Insider" is about the tobacco industry is like saying "Up in the Air" is about airplanes.

This movie is totally superficial. Enjoyable so, but still - pretty shallow. Like, the chipmunk acolyte? Her arc feels sort of abruptly incomplete. The way it was set up, she needed to fire Clooney, which would have totally set him adrift and then justified his surprisingly effusive letter of recommendation he pens for her. Like, he loses his job and gains freedom. She gets a raise and loses her soul. Something like that.

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"You snotty bastard."

Thank You Your Snoking

I'm awesome.

― girl moves (Abbott), Monday, January 4, 2010 8:32 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

real-life lolz

seriously

much-needed tbh

People like the way I write women

ugh

(did not watch GGs (not into pain) but will ugh in bold AND caps if he wins writing Oscar, lol)

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2010/01/james-cameron-jason-reitman-anthony-minghella-avatar.html

hate reitman more and more

The genesis story that Jason Reitman tells is by now well-honed. He discovered Walter Kirn’s novel “Up in the Air” in the independent bookshop Book Soup and spent a long time whipping a script into shape before getting behind the camera.

in the independent bookshop Book Soup
in the independent bookshop Book Soup
in the independent bookshop Book Soup

haha, he really is a shit.

Oh no, he was in a bookstore.

seriously - how pretentious

next we'll hear he writes for an alt-weekly!

if he was honest he'd just admit he read it on his kindle.

That's not earthy enough a story, tho!

See, he was helping those poor indie bookstore workers from losing their jobs!

you have really got the wrong takeaway from this story dude.

name-dropping an indie bookstore is like the least objectionable thing this guy has ever done.

I actually don't think much of this story is particularly objectionable.

That's Hollywood.

why did you do this then:

in the independent bookshop Book Soup
in the independent bookshop Book Soup
in the independent bookshop Book Soup

Because it's hilarious.

the alliteration.

the title of the shop, the notion of writing a screenplay in it, the carefully modulated assertion that it was an indie bookstore, not some suburban B&N ... all hysterical

Unusual details!

Book Soup is an independent bookstore located at 8818 Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, California, and is the largest general interest independent bookstore in Hollywood. The store is "known for its tall, teetering stacks and mazes of shelves crammed with titles that attracted entertainment and tourist industry clientele..." Popular with many in the entertainment industry, the store hosts a number of events featuring celebrity authors including Muhammad Ali, Howard Stern, Annie Leibovitz, Chuck Palahniuk, Jenna Jameson, and The Doors. Considered a "cultural fixture" of the Sunset Strip, Book Soup has also been featured as a location in a number of films and television shows.

The store was founded in 1975 by Glenn Goldman. Goldman and David Mackler (both in graduate school at UCLA at the time) raised $50,000 and, after doing extensive research on where to locate their store, opened Book Soup on Sunset Boulevard. The rationale for the location, as Goldman explained, was that there "had been a period of upheaval here in the '60s—of thought and ideas—and I felt that the people who lived in the neighborhood would and could really support a bookstore." Book Soup (the name was the least-offensive of those proposed by Goldman and Mackler) was nestled between a head shop and strip club. Mackler designed the store's interior.

What were the more offensive names, one wonders.

the title of the shop, the notion of writing a screenplay in it, the carefully modulated assertion that it was an indie bookstore, not some suburban B&N ... all hysterical

― queen frostine (Eric H.), Monday, January 18, 2010 11:38 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

uh i dont think he said he wrote the screenplay in the store haha

also how is saying "the independent bookshop" carefully-modulated

Book Fuck

Book Poop

the independent bookshop poop soup

Poop to Nuts

Rough Bindings

He discovered Walter Kirn’s novel “Up in the Air” in the independent bookshop Anal Book Hole

anal book nook iirc

"And he's called the Bookworm, you say."

He should have just said he discovered it in a book store after he read a draft that someone else had adapted and sought out the novel. In a book store. Where people often find books.

Am I wrong, or is Walter Kirn another pseudo-conservative a la Chris Buckley?

He called himself a libertarian, I think in his KCRW Treatment interview.

My favorite moment from the Golden Globes was Cameron winning best director and best film, because they would cut to Jason Reitman looking snotty and disappointed in the audience. He was clearly expecting to win.

James Cameron is an annoying tool, but he still manages to be less objectionable than Jason Reitman.

Reitman has proved himself to be a prat in a lot of ways, but I'll still root for him over Avatar any damn day.

no way

avatar's just corny, up in the air is actually straight objectionable

Avatar isn't objectionable? Straight-up racist, pandering, focus-grouped-to-death faux new age BS.

Actually, Avatar wasn't focus-grouped.

im pretty meh on both films but i'd reward cameron's psycho creative lunacy over reitman's mannered libertarian feel-good pat-backing any day.

both films are basically anti-human, i'll side with the one with the aliens