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

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

haha!
a friend of mine is saying that i should actually go see this movie so that my objections to it have more cred. i'm like, i don't like anything jason reitman's done, on top of that i feel manipulated into sort of liking it while watching and then feeling confused and dirty afterwards. and every time i've heard him talk or read anything, i am made to sneer, which is unattractive on many levels. my tolerance for hollywood douchebaggery is low these days. i do like clooney, but maybe this will make me not like him! ohno!
so...

Clooney (and really the whole cast) is what keeps me from outright hating this movie.

see, that just makes me think of the whole Little Miss Sunshine debacle all over again - awesome cast, uncreative writing, bad movie, get mega accolades, leaves me o_O - i find that kind of thing infuriating

if i go see this i will have to have a more nuanced take on this than "it sucks"

same thing w/ avatar tbh

At least Avatar manages to have a coherent ending even if it is just hippie saccharin.

Little Miss Sunshine bugged me all the way through, but I liked the first two-thirds of UITA a lot (especially the scene where they crash the tech convention). Clooney/Farmiga amorality = A++. But man, that ending is so clumsy and WTF that I blurted out "are you fucking kidding me?" in the middle of it.

psycho creative lunacy

I wish this were an accurate descriptor of Avatar's terrible qualities, but the truth is so much more banal.

what is the horrible truth about this movie neither of us likes

There's no lunacy in it beyond the insane budget and crepey alien sex - it's just recycled plot points and shitty dialogue.

Also, Reitman (or the other screenwriter, whichever) gets points for getting rid of the Haggis-worthy cancer twist from the novel, whereas Cameron seems to have gotten rid of all the even vaguely interesting stuff that was in his original treatment.

who know Book Soup was as polarizing as this movie

haha who knew

best thing about UITA was farmiga's bottom

if i go see this i will have to have a more nuanced take on this than "it sucks"

― max, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 02:54 (2 days ago

prolly not other than being able to say "it sucks and it was boring as fuck"

best thing about UITA was farmiga's bottom

― caek, Tuesday, January 19, 2010 3:23 AM

spoiler alert, but this ^^^ is absolutely true, its only like 20 minutes into the movie so u will be sitting around wondering where the rest of the booty shots went

there were several audible gasps in the cinema i saw it in

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seriously. jh0?

she kinda looks like j.newsom
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vera_Farmiga_by_Bridget_Laudien.jpghttp://centripetalnotion.com/images/newsom2.jpg

pic linked due to malware warning

http://i49.tinypic.com/2wfo3sw.gif

You expect The Omen music to start playing with that.

the Tonight show thing is a much more relevant satire of the employee-boss dynamic, with hordes of American swept up in the job status of TV millionaires.

http://i49.tinypic.com/2wfo3sw.gif

the fake andrew wk?

best thing about UITA was farmiga's bottom
― caek, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 09:23 (2 days ago) Bookmark

...which was one of the most outrageously obvious body doubles EVER!

Yep.

She had recently given birth and said: 'The breast milk down both sides – it would have been inappropriate.'

so disillusioned, thought i could trust u hollywood

Reitman is on the Bill Simmons ESPN podcast today.

It is occasionally quite irritating!

i can believe it was a body double, but what was obvious about it? have you seen her ass before?

CANCER?

CANCER?

No, I said, would you like a CAN, SIR?

HURRR.

fucking hell. this was terrible.

a perfect opening for how tone deaf the movie was.

a book of all the reviews of this film would be a great snapshot of how fkn clueless our reviewers are.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/c253a100-0062-11df-b50b-00144feabdc0.html

"When the film is smart, it is very smart. “Think of me as yourself, only with a vagina,” is Farmiga’s erotic appeal to Clooney."

hmmmm, that is p smart.

"Later, after a cocktail hour spent salivating over each other’s gilt-edged loyalty cards, she says: “We’re two people who get turned on by elite status.”"

haaaaaa! she's describing what happens in the scene!

"when the film is smart, it is very smart"

does tht reviewer even comprehend what any of the words in tht sentence mean?

idk if im revealing something weird here, but honestly "me + vagina" is not erotically appealing.