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Up in the Air

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Elliotte Friedman, Dec 7, 2009.

  1. OTD

    OTD Well-Known Member

    I've been wanting to see this. Last week, I flew American and stayed in a Hilton so I've seen plenty of promos for it.
     
  2. albert77

    albert77 Well-Known Member

    A good friend of mine spent several days with George Clooney working on a feature for her paper when he was down here filming, "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou." Said he could not have been nicer or more down-to-earth.
     
  3. JR

    JR Well-Known Member

    HC and I saw it today.

    Wonderful movie and Vera Farmiga is gorgeous in an un-Hollywood kinda way.

    George Clooney as Ryan Bingham may be the coolest man in the universe. You really got a sense of his disconnect from the world at large in the scenes with his family. He was a complete stranger and the discomfort between him and his siblings was palatable.

    The Anna Kendrick charcter as the recent grad with a bunch of textbook ideas but not many smarts played the role to perfection.

    Great line:

    Natalie Keener: That's racist.
    Ryan Bingham: I'm like my mother, I stereotype. It's faster.


    After that we went to see The Road. Two quite different films. :)
     
  4. friend of the friendless

    friend of the friendless Active Member

    Sirs, Madames,

    Last book I read b4 9/11. Great read and I hope the movie lives up to it.

    o-<
     
  5. HC

    HC Well-Known Member

    Mr. fotf

    I'm adding the book to my Christmas list. I liked the movie very much and I liked that fact that there wasn't a 'hollywood' ending. I'll also add that I can't imagine any other actor in this movie. Clooney is one of a kind.
     
  6. ArnoldBabar

    ArnoldBabar Active Member

    I saw it today, and I liked it but didn't love it. I also found the stuff related to the people being fired really depressing, probably because earier this year I was on the wrong end of one of those meetings.

    The acting is top-notch. Clooney is just the coolest mofo on the planet. I'd never seen Anna Kendrick in anything, and she's terrific -- the interplay between her and Clooney was the best part of the movie. I think the problem with Farmiga was just a very unflattering haircut.
     
  7. imjustagirl

    imjustagirl Active Member

    I'm going to go see this next weekend, when I get home from visiting the fam. I'm very excited.
     
  8. sgreenwell

    sgreenwell Well-Known Member

    Huh? I actually think she's a pretty strong actress. While she doesn't have that sort of heavyweight resume of the male actors, who would you rather cast? Kate Winslet? Gwenyth Paltrow? Meryl Streep? I thought Vera was solid in The Departed, and she has a really strong performance in otherwise unremarkable Paul Walker movie Running Scared.
     
  9. How was Eric Roberts as the husband?

    Oh, unforgettable!
     
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  10. Suicide Squeezer

    Suicide Squeezer Active Member

    I saw it Saturday and I enjoyed it, though it wasn't as great as I was expecting. I'm pretty sure I set entirely too high of expectations when it comes to these critically acclaimed movies, though occasionally they are met.

    It's nice to see Henry Rowengartner's mom back at work.
     
  11. Herbert Anchovy

    Herbert Anchovy Active Member

    For half the movie I thought Farmiga was one of the Arquettes.
     
  12. MacDaddy

    MacDaddy Active Member

    My wife thought the same thing -- all through the movie she kept saying, "Who is that? It's gotta be an Arquette."
     
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