RtS: Thank You For Smoking

[Gemini Cricket]

Rank the Swank - Theater and Movies


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Thank You For Smoking

AMC Loews Boston Common
175 Tremont Street
Boston, MA
March 26th, 2006

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427944/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427944/)


The Lowdown
This even-sided film by Ivan Reitman's son is a wonderful satire about America and Big Tobacco.
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The Scene
I enjoyed this film a great deal.

Aaron Eckhart was a great casting choice for this character. Although, it did take me half of the film to remember where I saw his face before. (Bearded boyfriend to Erin Brockovich.)

It's laugh out loud in places and surprisingly serious in others. I liked Reitman's choice not to take sides in the film. The point of the film was that people should think for themselves and he follows that thought through all the way.

My favorite reoccurring happening in the film is the meeting of the Mod Squad. (I won't tell you who they are.)

William H. Macy is funny in this as is Rob Lowe.

One of my favorite things about this film, and someone correct me if I'm wrong, is that they never show anyone actually smoking in this movie. I thought that was pretty cool.

Thumbs up on this one. I'm hoping this director and these writers do a lot more. They know funny.

:)

[BarTopDancer]

Thank you for the review GC! I've been wanting to see this.

[innerSpaceman]

Yep, this is on my must-see list.


(But when will life allow?)

[Alex]

I'm probably going to wait for Netflix but I have read the book by Christopher Buckley.

The book is mostly enjoyable but by the end takes on a note of SNL syndrome, that is it makes the joke last longer than it can survive. Hopefully in the more limited venue of a movie this has been fixed.

[FEJ]

I really enjoyed it. Highly recommended.

[Alex]

I saw it tonight and must say I was pretty disappointed. I felt it lost the thread on the satire even more quickly than the book. And when it did have the thread it wasn't biting. It could just be that this has just lost some of its topicality in the four or five years since the book since, at least in California, the questions satirized have already been answered in favor of silly paternalistic governmental babysitting.

The guy two rows ahead of me thought it was the funniest thing since sliced bread, however, and wasn't shy about letting people in surrounding theaters know it. He sat there giggling through the closing credits which was enough to drive me away (usually I'm a credit watcher).

[Gemini Cricket]

This movie actually made me want to smoke after I saw it. Weird. I don't smoke at all!
:D

[CoasterMatt]

Weird. I don't smoke at all!
:D
Everything's properly lubed, that's all... :evil: