Hey everyone. Capone in Chicago here.

I'm going to have a review of UP IN THE AIR for you very soon, but I already know one thing I feel about it very clearly: it's the best movie I've seen all year so far. I still have a handful of end-of-year things to see between now and the end of the month, but it's difficult to imagine that I'll connect to anything left on the release schedule the way I did this movie. And somehow writer-director Jason Reitman captured me on an emotional level with characters that I have very little in common with. That's a remarkable feat, no impossible, but very difficult. I don't see myself in any of these characters at all (although I'd certainly like to see myself in Vera Farmiga--Hi-Oh!), and I still was able to identify and understand where they were coming from. But more on that later.

I love the movie so much that I can't wait to see it again, and I even love watching the trailers over and over again, because after seeing the movie, I realize there are a couple glimpses of scenes in the trailers that aren't in the movie. Earlier today, Apple Trailers put up an extended trailer for UP IN THE AIR called "Everyone Needs a Co-Pilot", and it shows more scenes that haven't been released yet and gives what I think is the best representation of this movie that I've seen in any of the released footage.

And the best news that I've gotten in recent weeks is that the film platform release begins earlier than I'd been told previously--December 4--and that Chicago is one of the initial cities in which it will be released. Enjoy the new feature, and get ready to see a truly great work of cinema.

-- Capone
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