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

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

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."