Up in the Air

I consider this one of the best movies of 2009, and its high up my list of best movies of the decade. It seems this movie came at a perfect time when all over the world but the United States especially people were getting laid off and tens of thousands of people had to look for a new job.

George Clooney plays the man who doesn't want to settle down and he found the perfect job to do it. He flies around America to fire people. While other people just wanna go as fast as possible from point a to b and see the airport as necessarily annoyance he enjoys every second of it. He has a lifestyle that sounds very appealing to me, no complicated relations, job or stuff that holds you down. Just go everywhere you want without thinking about what you leave behind.

Interesting fact: The director Jason Reitman put up an ad in a newspaper asking for anyone who recently got fired to speak about that experience. He told them it was for a documentary. So some of the people we see in the movie are people who actually got fired from their jobs and give a genuine answer to what they said when they were told they were getting fired and what they think is still important in their life.

Love how it ended. An amazing movie.

Good movie about how to be free in the modern corporate world. Tells an awesome story about not conforming to what you think others are expecting of you and just be happy. Love it.

An eye-opening story about life and its facets, what it means to be happy and what to be without purpose, a story about how at times, we're so sure of holding life in our hand, only to discover there was nothing in there to begin with; in short, how meaningless can life be when we convince ourselves of not being fragile human creatures.

We can remain up in the air all of our lives, and it can be beautiful to look at the clouds, to watch down and feel greater than all those people down there -but we can fall any moment. And when we fall, if we don't have somebody to catch us, -or rather, a co-pilot to save us- maybe we will have wasted our lives only in the air, never really having our feet on the ground.

Jason Reitman takes a relatively grounded, simple story about relatively normal people and makes it a compelling and engrossing viewing.

Cleverly written, dialogues are superb and on-screen chemistry between George Clooney (he is MAGNETIC) and Vera Farmiga is top notch. Anna Kendrick annoying but cute, Sam Elliot does what he does best and the supporting cast works brilliantly too.

Just a clever, sad and hopeful little story, that took me by surprise.

" Let everything burn and imagine waking up tomorrow with nothing."
Yes, wait what?
That's the emotional tone of the movie, once it is convinced into something and then lets you question it when you're convinced.
It's more of a life lesson than Rom-com. Ending is what I liked most, it is what happens in real life. Once you start believing in something, that belief kills you. Walter Kirn in his book & Jason Reitman succeeded in showing it in movie.
It masterfully explores themes of loneliness, corporate downsizing, and the elusive nature of human connection in the modern world. It's a journey of self-discovery, or perhaps, self re-discovery, that makes you think what truly matters.
All the actors were excellent on their part. Their way of conveying emotions was just so soothing.
A great movie overall, the feelings, the emotions, the happiness, the sadness, the love, the heartbreaks everything.
It has that feeling good vibe throughout, engages you and then the sad, real ending breaks you.

Great movie. Good cast that had a lot of chemistry together. Surprising amount of well known people who have cameos. I love young and aspiring Anna Kendrick, before she started singing.

Notable for being the movie where I first fell head-over-heels for Anna Kendrick, who is delightful here. Clooney is cast perfectly, and I admire what this movie has to say about vulnerability and meaningful relationships. I think I tend to overrate movies that can make me laugh and cry in equal measure, but I’m leaving it at this spot on the list.

This is definitely a different role for Vera Farmiga, but I’ve always enjoyed this one.

The one thing I had heard about it was that it is 2 hours of product placements. This is true like no other movie that I have ever watched. They had whole conversations about products. Worse, they took it to a new level by throwing the competitors under the bus. Anyway, the first half of the movie was rather uneventful. I always do enjoy George Clooney and Vera Farmiga was fantastic but the story was rather bland. However, the story really picked up in the second half and the ending was actually excellent. I still can't fathom how Anna Kendrick got Oscar attention for playing miserable/whiney girl. She had two memorable lines in the whole movie.