up in the air - running diary

bunk boys (me, terence, bri) are watchin "up in the air" - courtesy of Robbie Chew

those in company: nancy wu, kyle oda, joanna chen, coral chou, tiffany nguyen.


approx 5 min. into the movie: Terence and I try to play a game where we see how many times we can get joanna to turn around and look at us. I suggest a different game - we call out people we want to distract and then have 1 minute to do it. Terence says "i kinda want to watch this movie". that's alright, Mickey does plenty of things without Minnie.


the f-bomb is dropped about 4-5 times in the opening scene. i can tell everyone is cringing a little bit, no one expected this film to be like "up" but at this point it sounds more like "inglorious basterds".

i get up to get some juice and as i open up our fridge half of the people look over because our fridge smells like some durian. brian motions over to shut the fridge because the smell is just as distracting as George Clooney's good looks.

DISTRACTION: coral - joanna and nancy start sharing their food from rendezvous.

the "for award consideration only" banner comes on for the first time. we all chuckle that our very own SAG member is sharing his privileges with us.

DISTRACTION: tina chen (bunk boys' first lady)arrives - she frowns and walks over to take a seat next to brian. she looks frazzled and opens up a box of oreos before sitting down. her series of actions has me distracted for another 5 min. i have no idea what is going on in the movie.

george clooney and the girl from departed go back to her hotel room - tina covers the guys' eyes (brian and kyle). everyone looks away or covers their eye. Robbie hides behind some english book that he strangely has held open.

terence and i spot the mother from "rookie of the year" and we reenact the last scene where the rookie throws an underhand softball pitch to win the game.

this really saucy girl comes onto the screen and everyone laughs at the fact that she says she is a "psychology major" - we are such nerds.

George Clooney verbally sticks it to the saucy girl with a witty monologue.
-Tina says "YAYUH"
-Terence is giddy and slaps me in the back like a silly girl
-Brian says "George Clooney is the man" as tina looks on affectionately

sidenote: Terence and I realized that Jason Bateman who plays Clooney and Saucy Girl's boss is someone that we have seen in many movies but we did not know his name until now. Some other notable roles he has had: the guy from hancock, the arrested development guy.

DISTRACTION: Tina offers an oreo to kyle, i am going to attempt to get her to give me one.

she obliges and offers an oreo to everybody- this is why she is the bunk boy's first lady. sorry girls, position is filled!

everyone laughs again at Clooney's diatribe on people at airport. i was not paying attention so i do not laugh.

me: i bet saucy girl falls in love with clooney
terence: no
me: why?
terence: father/daughter-ly love at best


Movie is beginning to pick up - everyone is staying quiet, i have nothing to report on except Robbie still has his english book propped open in one hand.

DISTRACTION: Tina runs into our bedroom to grab a blanket. It is a safe assumption to make that all girls enjoy clutching a blanket during movies.

She comes back to an awkward texting scene - mama tina covers Brian and Kyle's eyes again.
she demands to know what the rating for the movie is.


this is beginning to be a very depressing movie. i don't see how saucy girl and clooney can fall for each other in all these depressing scenes. hollywood stun me soon please!

saucy girl breaks down - is crying like crazy. clooney comforts her.
-i give my best "i told you so look" at terence
-terence rolls his eyes
-i can sense that we are annoying the rest of the people watching

clooney and the departed girl starting dancing at some junior high-like party.
-things are looking grim for the "saucy gal and Clooney" romance

young m.c. makes a cameo to perform "bust a move"

the departed girl and clooney have a moment on the back of this small yacht. them kissing hurts me in so many ways - mainly that Terence is right and i am wrong.

*side note gene is knocked out or "grounded" as we joked. he's actually just in our bedroom watching some other film he needs to know for a class.

clooney: i really like you
tina: don't say it!
departed girl: i like you too
tina: (frowns and pouts)

tina is reading the plot on wikipedia. she gasps at some revelation which annoys me because i am tempted to wiki the film myself.


Brian tells us that he thinks that the sister looks like Jim Halpert AHA!













the crazy guy from Pineapple express is the fiancee of Jim Halpert look-alike sister
-struggling to take him serious
-the outfit he's wearing to the wedding looks like what Fogel wears in Superbad

Wedding scenes have all the girls buzzing. its kinda sweet watching clooney dance.

departed girl: call me when you get lonely
clooney: i'm lonely
tina: (bounces up and down in her chair with fists balled up)

saucy girl is brought back into the movie
*terence whispers..."any chance still?"
-yeah i guess i lost this one.

clooney finds out departed girl is a wife and has kids
-there is a soft "oohhh" from the audience.

the rest of the movie is too serious for me to make any witty comment on...besides i don't want to spoil ALL of the movie.

this is post-"up in the air", gene is playin final fantasy xiii while adoring female fans + robbie watch on.

your lower left bunk friend,
benson