Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Kirpianuscus Each aspect could be defined as special. from performances and fine chemistry between the characters of Vera Farmiga and George Clooney, to the status of simple, convincing and cruel for its deep honesty, story about life. a film about solitude. and need of the other. and prices of succes. and freedom. and love. and about different levels of reality. short, a great movie.

classicsoncall I had to wonder while watching the movie if there really is such a job as a corporate hired gun to fire employees, sort of a reverse headhunter if you will. There probably is but I never heard of it, and the way Ryan Bingham's (George Clooney) role was positioned in the story, it looked like a lot of companies would take advantage of the the skills he possessed. It's kind of weird though, to think that a company's personnel executive wouldn't have the courage or fortitude to dismiss employees who were either unproductive or unskilled to meet new challenges. Clooney's character was ideal for the job, harboring no illusions of compassion for those he was sent in to dismiss; I'm sure he made a pretty good buck at it.The main reason I picked this film to watch when I did was because I was about to take a plane flight the next day on a vacation trip. Not that that had anything to do with the substance of the film, but it made the connection a little more personal. I'm retired now, so there were no thoughts about getting fired while I was away. So then I began thinking what it would take to fly ten million miles and for me, that would be about a thousand years. After Ryan Bingham made it, I thought the gesture of giving his married sister and her newlywed husband a trip around the world was pretty generous, but five hundred thousand miles? The circumference of the Earth is twenty five thousand miles, so you could make that trip twenty times, but who would want to? I thought that was a minor hitch in the script. Anyway, Bingham learns what it's like to partake in the 'having loved and lost' game after years of noncommital relationships. Personally, I didn't get the chemistry between Bingham and Alex (Vera Fermiga); some reviewers thought she was gorgeous but I didn't think she photographed well at all. The encounter when Ryan made it to her home and realized she had a family was a real kick in the privates for a guy who had a one track mind about finally settling down. As for the character portrayed by Anna Kendrick, it was the perfect representation of a young millennial upstart who knows everything about everything until they meet the real world head on. What was awkward about her role in the story was the way she disappeared for a while when Ryan and Alex did the family wedding thing. In retrospect, I don't get the Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. The Best Actor/Actress noms also didn't make sense to me, even if Clooney and Fermiga were competent in their portrayals. The story didn't seem to offer much in the way of consequence, but I did take away a few tips on packing for a short trip. I'll have to use them the next time I fly.

roblesar99 I wasn't expecting Up in the Air's last fifteen minutes to hit me like they did. But writer-director Jason Reitman's film packs a punch. The film follows Ryan Bingham, a corporate "downsizer" who spends the majority of his time traveling from city to city. Contrary to what one might think, Bingham enjoys the constant traveling. His Omaha apartment is bare and the 43 days that he had to spend there the year prior are described as "miserable." One night in Dallas, he meets Alex Goran, a traveling businesswoman, and the two immediately hit it off due to their similar lifestyles. George Clooney is in top form as the cynical Bingham, whose career has insulated him from human contact. His chemistry with Alex is palpable, exemplified by the twinkle in their eyes when they look at each other for the first time to the way that they interact when Bingham gives her a tour of his old high school.Reitman's writing establishes the connection between these characters but Clooney and Vera Farmiga bring it to life. Farmiga herself delivers a performance that rivals Clooney's, magnificently capturing the sensuality and tenacity required to make her character work. And as a recent Cornell grad named Natalie Keener who has big plans for the future of the company that Bingham works for, Anna Kendrick delivers her best work to date. Keener accompanies Bingham on his travels in order to learn about the difficulties that he faces in telling workers that the company that they are working for has decided to unemploy them. In the process, Kendrick captures Keener's naivety remarkably, and we watch her wide-eyed enthusiasm fade away because of the draining task at hand.Reitman succeeds brilliantly at transporting the audience right back to the late-2000s, bringing memories of the economic downturn back to the forefront. In a stroke of genius, Reitman interviewed dozens of recently laid-off workers and included segments of these interviews in the film. While they don't take up too much time, they do touch on the bitter realities of unemployment and the recession. However, the film is primarily a character study focused on Bingham, with existential undertones and moments of genuine hilarity. Because of his relationship with Alex (and to a lesser degree, his relationship with Keener), Bingham begins to let his cynical exterior fade away and falls in love, despite his aversion to marriage and lack of human connection. I suspect that it's this subtle shift in character that Reitman and Clooney so expertly portray that allowed for the last fifteen minutes of the film to land with such a brute emotional impact.Up in the Air proved a more difficult watch than I was expecting. Not because it requires superior intellect to decode its jokes or anything of the like, but because it's deviously complex. The relationships between our three leads are one thing, but Reitman's willingness to comment on mass unemployment and human connection, all with an existential touch, is something else entirely. And all the way up to its unexpectedly moving (and somewhat devastating) conclusion, the film manages to delight and entertain.Rating: 8/10 (Great)

Mina Jp He lives in Nowhere Land, all fun, and adventure. He meets women, all in Nowhere Land. But this time it feels different. He is planning to extend the relationship and makes it to a Somewhere Land with her. Once he has sorted out all that within, he walks to her door to find that she has already a Somewhere Land; and doesn't need him anywhere except in their Nowhere Land adventure!