Up In The Air

We're big movie people and spouse, 21 yr old son and I saw this yesterday. We all LOVED IT! It was a lot funnier than I thought it would be and also touching. I read an article that some of the terminated people in the movie were not actors but actual people who had been let go from their company. At least they got in a movie!

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I liked it but I was strangely unsatisfied with Alex being married with kids. It isn't that I wanted a happy Hollywood ending with them together. I wanted her reject him but I felt having it due to her having a home life cheapened it a bit. I guess I should have figured out that was the way they were going to go when she talks about her ideal husband in Miami and talking about wanting children but to be honest I was more enamored with her being the female version of himself and wanted her rejection of him to be along those lines rather than the modern mom out for a tryst.

here is why that would have been weaker

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clooney has his realization that his life choices may not exactly be the best/healthiest

if she is in a similar boat, her rejecting him hurts him, but we still revert back to, "oh well that life choice is just bad. she will learn."

having her character be married with kids, and having that all as a fantasy (for her) creates more layering of her character and for the story itself. it's easy to say, "well she's an a-hole like he was," but it's harder to say, "even she had a family and kids, and her isolationist ploy was only a fantasy for her."

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I liked it but I was strangely unsatisfied with Alex being married with kids. It isn't that I wanted a happy Hollywood ending with them together. I wanted her reject him but I felt having it due to her having a home life cheapened it a bit. I guess I should have figured out that was the way they were going to go when she talks about her ideal husband in Miami and talking about wanting children but to be honest I was more enamored with her being the female version of himself and wanted her rejection of him to be along those lines rather than the modern mom out for a tryst.

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I liked the movie but couldn't buy why she wouldn't have told him she was married. He wouldn't have cared. Does anyone know a single guy like that character that would have shied away from an affair with a hot arse married chick on the road? Also, it would have served to better protect her. Loved the movie, but this part made no sense to me.