I had this extra ticket to any (non-Avatar) movie I wanted to see. I got it after a couple of years worth of movies at Regal Cinemas at regular price. What a deal! You mean to tell me that after spending five hundred bucks at your theaters I get to see one movie on the house? How can you stay in business??

Anyway, I flew spur of the moment to see Up In The Air. It was good. I liked seeing that girl from Rocket Science again, she was great. And Clooney never fucks things up. I’m not sure, but I think they – meaning whoever made this movie – wanted me to judge the protagonist as a pathetic, even deviant, person. I’m probably the only one in that theater who identified with Clooney’s character, and not only because at a 2pm showing of a George Clooney movie it’s pretty much all old ladies.

I’m not saying I identified with this character’s way of coping with how he is, I certainly don’t just fly around collecting miles 350 days a year. I’m just saying I get it.

But I guess they wanted to make him seem like a schmuck. Of course they do. The audience is all old ladies.

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