........and thought it was pretty good.
The Link
Starring George Clooney, Vera Famigia and Anna Kendrick, this is an entertaining and thoughtful movie about a corporate terminator who flys around the country in a business suit, living out of a hand-pulled rolling suitcase, sleeping in a nightly rented room and occasionally sport f*cking, but always very competently doing his job, which is firing unfortunate employees whenever a company gets downsized.
He does this 320 days a year, happily zooming toward 10 million flyer miles accumulated during his career.
He enjoys his job and life style until his status quo, modus operandi and raison d'etre are all challenged and perhaps changed forever by two females.
How will he face these challenges?
Will he change?
Will George Clooney ever lose his cool in a movie?
Was that really Vera Farmigia naked or just a body double?
I've always worked for myself, haven't been on an airplane in almost 15 years, hardly ever wear a suit and have never terminated an employee or been fired.
In fact, this interesting movie took me further out of my stable, homelife filled existence and personal life experience than any flick I've seen since Gordon Gekko wowed me with all that insider stuff about Wall Street, except for my recently having been cinematically transported during "Avatar" which I won't count since that was total fantasy and required 3-D glasses.
This movie is up for for 5 Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director, a Best Screenplay category and each of the thespian trio mentioned above have a nomination for Best Actor or Best Supporting Actress statuettes.
I guess "Up in the Air" must be pretty well thought of to have received that much attention from the Academy.
Actually, the excellence of this film was quite evident even to me, despite my being on such unfamiliar ground as a viewer.
And my best wishes go out to those whose lives are so much more up in the air than mine.
That world was OK to cinematically visit and these moviemakers made it believable and at times even inviting.
I'll recommend this film as a good one, but I wouldn't want to live there.
Your thoughts?
The Link
Starring George Clooney, Vera Famigia and Anna Kendrick, this is an entertaining and thoughtful movie about a corporate terminator who flys around the country in a business suit, living out of a hand-pulled rolling suitcase, sleeping in a nightly rented room and occasionally sport f*cking, but always very competently doing his job, which is firing unfortunate employees whenever a company gets downsized.
He does this 320 days a year, happily zooming toward 10 million flyer miles accumulated during his career.
He enjoys his job and life style until his status quo, modus operandi and raison d'etre are all challenged and perhaps changed forever by two females.
How will he face these challenges?
Will he change?
Will George Clooney ever lose his cool in a movie?
Was that really Vera Farmigia naked or just a body double?
I've always worked for myself, haven't been on an airplane in almost 15 years, hardly ever wear a suit and have never terminated an employee or been fired.
In fact, this interesting movie took me further out of my stable, homelife filled existence and personal life experience than any flick I've seen since Gordon Gekko wowed me with all that insider stuff about Wall Street, except for my recently having been cinematically transported during "Avatar" which I won't count since that was total fantasy and required 3-D glasses.
This movie is up for for 5 Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director, a Best Screenplay category and each of the thespian trio mentioned above have a nomination for Best Actor or Best Supporting Actress statuettes.
I guess "Up in the Air" must be pretty well thought of to have received that much attention from the Academy.
Actually, the excellence of this film was quite evident even to me, despite my being on such unfamiliar ground as a viewer.
And my best wishes go out to those whose lives are so much more up in the air than mine.
That world was OK to cinematically visit and these moviemakers made it believable and at times even inviting.
I'll recommend this film as a good one, but I wouldn't want to live there.
Your thoughts?
