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

I can't imagine jason reitman going for Annie Hall/Reds either. (These "witnesses" reminded me of a TV ad or some crap corporate promo/propaganda piece.) btw JR, Armond hates Michael Mann too.

― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, December 30, 2009 9:47 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i can. it's so obviously where the idea came from.

first of all, in Annie Hall what is the equivalent? In Reds, mostly well-known writers/public intellectuals recounting events of 60 years earlier not quite the same either.

i get the ref to 'time out' but cantet hasn't used inserts of irl people iirc

no morbs you're right, annie hall is prob pushing it. but reds i think for sure. and i think i just realized what the real influence is... WHEN HARRY MET SALLY

he misses the point of 'the insider' + lol at moral ambivalence for idiots.

yeah he sounds dumb

interview reads better if you add ", man" to the end of all his sentences

these firing montages provided the most consistent laughs in my theater.

Hate to give Reitman a break here, but I think this can be chalked up to a large minority of moviegoers being assholes.

(didnt put "majority" bcz it's Christmas)

I don't get how that interview is supposed to prove Reitman dumb (or Armond not-dumb) besides his disinterest in the content of The Insider, which I think is a valid point (not to touch on Mann's style, which, if I recall, is 90% of why that movie is at all memorable.)

the claim that the fact that his movies play it both ways ideologically is a virtue is what makes him sound dumb there to me. i guess that was bitchy of me. i've only seen juno, and i liked that movie but i think it's gross that he's being coy about pro-choice/pro-life. i guess this is morbs of me but the previews for up in the air make it seem worthless.

But Diablo Cody wrote Juno. Isn't this the first of his films where he has primary script credit? (also it seems agreed there's very little of the source novel left in the film)

I can't think of a more rudimentary, uninteresting examination of duality w.r.t political issues than Thank You for Smoking.

The tobacco industry is pretty fucked up and villainous imo.

I know that's a bold claim but goshdarnit it's how I feel!

also his complaint abt the insider is stupid because smoking is bad for you, and what the tobacco companies did was wrong, like idk how he thinks mann couldve shoehorned in some phony ambivalence into that movie to make it less "boring" w/o making a completely different (and more retarded) movie

lol xpost

I don't get how that interview is supposed to prove Reitman dumb (or Armond not-dumb) besides his disinterest in the content of The Insider, which I think is a valid point (not to touch on Mann's style, which, if I recall, is 90% of why that movie is at all memorable.)

― Simon H., Wednesday, December 30, 2009 1:33 PM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

the implicit argument that his movies are much more interesting and nuanced than the "boring" insider—a movie that his pedestrian garbage will never, ever come closing to TOUCHING—is what makes that quote noteworthy

yeah if you're jason reitman maybe don't so much disparage michael mann

I don't think me meant to disparage Michael Mann.

*he

More to the point, while I think a lot of his remarks here and elsewhere are sometimes dubious, he's hardly the only director w/ foot in mouth syndrome. I can only account for the movie, really, which I liked.

i can only account for the movie which i thought sucked a big bag of donkey balls

also he has no idea what hes talking about

"my film was polarizing--thats why both pro-choicers and pro-lifers agreed with it"

like what did his film polarize in those situations

he makes it sound like everyone liked it

"my film was polarizing--thats why both pro-choicers and pro-lifers agreed with it"

Haha!

"My films are polarizing. I don’t want to tell my audience what to think. Twins -- Austrian bodybuilders thought it was theirs and Italian midgets thought it was theirs. And quirky fringe scientists thought Ghostbusters was theirs and phantasms and ectoplasmic goo thought it was theirs. Legal Eagles has a similar divide, depending on what people think the whole plot of the movie means. I would be curious to hear what Armond thinks of Raiders of the Lost Ark, a film that goes [slams down fist]: “Booby traps bad! Nazi people bad!” And for me that’s so boring. But, look, for some that’s the experience they want and those movies exist for them. I want people to talk.” - Ivan Reitman

bravo

kudos, sir

(also it seems agreed there's very little of the source novel left in the film)

Haven't read the source novel, but after reading this I'm glad most of it was left in the can.

Didn't really care for this movie at all and much like Thank You For Smoking it got lost in it's own attempt to Make A Statement. At least Charles Atlas made some scratch.

Note to Hollywood: we do want movies of "sexy, satirical amorality with Vera Farmiga" not the promise of one.

we do want movies of "sexy, satirical amorality with Vera Farmiga" not the promise of one.

AMEN!

This fucking movie.

I would be curious to hear what Armond thinks of The Insider, a film that goes [slams down fist]: “Smoking bad! Tobacco people bad!” And for me that’s so boring. But, look, for some that’s the experience they want and those movies exist for them. I want people to talk.

i don't think he ever saw 'the insider'

The only good thing about "Thank You Your Snoking" was Aaron Eckhart is a pretty good-looking guy.

Thank You Your Snoking

I'm awesome.

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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