I saw like, three movies this year. There just wasn’t anything interesting to see. But Up In The Air may change that.
I knew nothing about it, so I looked up the trailer:
which still gives me no clue about what it is about.
Actually that’s not true. Since I don’t watch TV or listen to radio, I found out about this movie by reading this NY Times article.
In “Up in the Air,” Mr. Clooney plays a suave corporate gunslinger who incessantly roams the country to fire people on behalf of other companies. Among these highest fliers, perks and privileges are coins of the realm. In one of the most talked-about scenes in the movie, Mr. Clooney and a woman at a hotel bar are soon involved in a flirtatious game, slapping down their platinum and other superexecutive elite cards on the table, as if to say, can you top this?
Few business travelers occupy this niche, no matter how frequently they fly. Right now, more of them are like me — anxiously looking at my mileage account and calculating how many more miserable miles I need to fly by the end of the year to requalify for a lowly level of “elite status.” Let’s say we do qualify. Mostly all that does is allow us to board the plane in a priority line, with scores of others, and maybe get early dibs on stowing our carry-on bags in an overhead bin somewhere within reach of our cramped coach seats.
I think an entire movie about the netizens of the Flyertalk forums would be interesting. Sadly, I think they’ve tried to make the film more marketable and thus less interesting to me.
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