So Jason Reitman’s “Up In The Air” dramedy is all the rage these days, right? Gonna sweep up the Oscars, with a Best Picture, Best Actor and Best director nominations? By the sounds of the buzz, it could be.
Apple Trailers has debuted a clip from the film, where the single and perennially unattached George Clooney first meets his match in the film — the equally shallow, air-miles happy and unavailable Vera Farmiga. Both of them are constant travellers, frequent-flyer obsessed and hotel/travel snobs. Their banter in the script is rich, delicious and a witty, clever flirtation repartee. In this clip it’s intentionally toned down, a different rhythm but still trying to be a little snappy (and it is a bit obnoxious too). It’s obviously impossible to gauge the film by the clip, so we won’t do that, but little scene does underwhelm somewhat. It plays out like the “show me your scars” scene from “Lethal Weapon” or “Jaws.” Clever, but it also doesn’t totally win you over either. It probably needs the full context of the movie, but it does get us curious for the full thing that we’ll see next week at TIFF.
“Up In The Air” hits theaters December 4.