i wish i had stellar people skills so i could have this job for a good 4 years of my life.

hehe yeah! if it wasnt for the love story this could be a pretty good film?!

no way you're crazy

everyone here will be talking about it when they see it.

i do think it will be a good film but as always they just 'have' to include a love story... i just hope they keep it true the nature of the film and not just for the sake of a george clooney flick?! i like the idea behind it... good story...

Do you think he wears a business suit to bed?

Saleh FTW

From the trailers this one looks like it is mainly about the love story. I agree with you that too often an unnecessary love story is just thrown in willy-nilly to a movie that doesn't need it. Love stories can be great on film, though. ex. Punch-Drunk Love, Annie Hall, Once, etc.

Diablo Cody directed it, so I am interested. Her book was awesome.

Actually Jason Reitman (Thank You for Smoking, Juno) directed this. Diablo Cody was uninvolved.

yeah, weirdo

disagree completely.

the film can be seen on wholly different levels.

As Roger Ebert saw it, '"Up in the Air" is about the so-called Bowling Alone Generation, professional people who make a lot of money for themselves and their corporations, and value that above families and relationships."


The film is also about one man representing the relentless pace at which Americans run their lives. Our society is always on the go (when if you go to Europe everyone is laid back and thinks Americans are crazy). To Clooney's character, everything is artificial, or he is artificial, living day in and day out of the most luxurious hotels.

And that is where the relationship comes in, his character finding gratification in something he'd wish to leave off his back, cause it's too personal. Perhaps the first trailer would better sum up his thoughts and the movie:

and not to mention it's about a guy who is sent to downsize offices across the country, who you might guess grows more sympathetic by the end of the film.


Good film for the times.

Whatever it's about, I'm very excited for this one.

im probably the only one, but im obsessed with Sad Brad Smith's song "Help Yourself", the last song in the trailer.

a movie about my life, if i were as cool as George Clooney and flew a lot.

Don't be so down on yaself. I bet george clooney can't rock the mic like you can.

hey, why dont you put this in my own Up in the Air thread, shall we?

I saw this today, and I must say that I was mildly disappointed with it. It is definitely a good movie, but not as great as I thought it may have been. IHRM was actually pretty good in his pre-view assessment of the themes of the movie, whatever that says.

I really liked this film. First off I can relate since my happens to be Ryan and I fly an average of 90k miles and spend ~100 nights a year in hotels for my job.

The film did a really good job of showing the Clooney's character's substitution between the difficult task of developing really relationships with people while living in a temporary space and developing temporary intimate relationships with the people he is about to fire. The big rack chick from twilight does a great job as a young b-school grad, how I hate these people in the professional world, forced to confront the opposite. The contrast show how disconnected we have all become... all the way to the story's conclusion. It's definitely not a funny as Thank You For Smoking or as clever as Juno, two movies I can re-watch again and again, but it's characters feel much more real and the film is much more honesty about our lives in corporate America.

If it's wasn't for UP, this would be my favorite film of the year. Though I haven't seen The Hurt Locker, Where the Wild Things Are, Inglorious Bastards, or Moon yet so can't make a final call.

Solid movie. One of my favorite aspects was the aerial shots of the different cities that were showcased.