From Darfur to Der Fuhrer, Clooney the Chameleon

Rating: 1/10 (4 January 2010)

The fact that Clooney's coat disappeared and reappeared from cut to cut and scene to scene showed me that making a good, fluid, consistent film was not the goal in, Up in the Air, but the point was to deliver a message and that message was pure propaganda. clooney: 'hey buddy, sure we screwed the economy and ruined your life and the life of your wife and kids and your going to be homeless soon but hey, now you can follow your dreams. don't hate your boss or the efficiency expert we hired to fire you because he is a nice guy like george clooney.'
Next chunk of propaganda came in the contrived scene when Clooney's future brother-in-law(man searching for American dream) gets cold feet about the wedding and Corporate Clooney comes to the rescue with,'hey guy, you're right. marriage is a sham, but you discovered that when you were alone. those thoughts bad. being alone bad. never be alone because you think about bad things. don't think just do.'
Then came the final message when clooney decides he's had enough and walks out of the seminar during his speech to go get the woman he loves and when he gets there he finds out someone beat him to the pot of gold(marriage and kids and house according to film) at the end of the rainbow(they even show him standing by a rainbow drawing when hes giving the alone speech before he has his epiphany). so hurry or you'll miss out on your chance to get married and pop out kids. After almost being discovered his mistress calls him out and says, 'youre just an escape from reality(husband and kids and warm house.) and wheres your reality and what do you want? and you don't know what you want so I'm better than you but call me next time you wanna get laid.' so he feels dejected until the next scene he has given up his revolution and is back at his job and his boss sends him back on the road after clooney successfully lies to his boss about a suicide caused by him and his assistant.
throughout the film he tells the hotshot execs that attend his seminars the analogy of the backpack. the backpack represents people and relationships and the backpack is heavy so drop it if you want to be successful in business. so right before he is about to leave on his last business trip hes at the airport debating whether he should run off to some foreign land on a whim but instead he lets go of his bag, basically saying, 'keep your job...don't get involved in personal relationships unless we fire you and never change.' the morals we're skewed to a fascist viewpoint in this film and i lost what little respect i had for Clooney after watching this movie. the only thing missing was the patriotic music and clooney running off to join the marine corps.