Up in the Air

[cos]

mini-review:

You know how sometimes in a movie there's a perfect line of dialogue followed by another followed by another, and the scene is almost unbearably fun to watch, and you remember and quote it later? I can't easily remember those moments from Up in the Air because there were too many of them. I think more than of total screen time was that sort of dialogue. I haven't had this much fun watching people talk in a movie that wasn't of the witty/silly comedy genre often, or maybe ever.

I'm not yet sure how good a movie I think it was, because it usually takes me a while for a movie to sink in and my opinion to settle, but I can say that they did not take the easy way(s) out in resolving the plot, and that even though this was essentially a movie about relationships, it still passed the Bechdel Test.

Comments

[cinnabarine.livejournal.com]

I *really* loved that movie and it resonated with me in ways I completely didn't expect.

[faerieboots.livejournal.com]

I liked it too, but don't recall it passing the Bechdel test. When did it do that?

Bored and reading friends-of-friends journals ... Spoiler alert ...

[paradoox.livejournal.com]

I've been looking for someone to explain to me why they liked this movie. My wife and I went to see it and while I wanted to like it, I hated it. Primarily because the movie was based on a total gratuitous and unrealistic lie: That she didn't tell him she was married. He didn't want commitment, so it seems logical that she would say "Good, works for me, I don't want commitment, I'm married." Besides they went away for the weekend to the wedding and she managed to hide any contact with her family from him during the weekend?