I feel sorry for businessmen because there's no way they can live up to the standards George Clooney sets for them: in the looks, coolness, and vocal delivery department there is no one else who better portrays the company man (and I'm glad he hasn't made it a habit to play high school teachers . . . I've only got to compete with Gabe Kaplan and Howard Hesseman) and he pulls it off again in Jason Reitman's Up in the Air, which has enough laughs to temper a grim topic; Clooney is an expert at curtailing redundancies in human resource departments . . . he travels around the country and fires people; the film is a cautionary tale and it features the reactions of real people interspersed among the actors, which is powerful in itself; the moral of the tale is both existential and inspirational (and partly delivered by Sam Elliott in a great cameo) and so I give it 8 million miles out of a possible 10 million.
howard hesseman? herman's head?
ReplyDeletePeople stop me on the street all the time because they think I'm George Clooney. Or Antonio Banderas.
ReplyDeleteI want not acquiesce in on it. I assume warm-hearted post. Especially the designation attracted me to review the whole story.
ReplyDeleteTalk me more, plus plus!
ReplyDeletei thought the movie was good - not great. and that makes me think that i don't like movies, 'cause everybody says that movie is going to win best picture
ReplyDeletecatherine and i said the same thing-- it was good, not great, couple of excellent scenes and hung together as a whole, but not especially memorable. maybe people say that because it's so topical.
ReplyDeletesorry-- howard hesseman. was he in herman's head? all i remember from that show is the spiky faced blond girl-- kyra sedwick?
ReplyDeleteI drank so much wine and sake I slept through the whole movie
ReplyDeleteEasily I assent to but I dream the brief should prepare more info then it has.
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