Thank You For Smoking (2005) - LightShed 5

Good movie.  Everybody was good and I am re-considering my sickness of Aaron Eckhart.  Katie Holmes delivered.  Adam Brody delivered.  Rob Lowe delivered.  Maria Bello delivered.  Aaron delivered.  Mostly small roles, but everybody looked pretty good.

In the movie, Aaron Eckhart is the spokesman for the tobacco industry.  His only friends are also in industries that kill people to make money:  alcohol and guns.  He screws the reporter played by Katie Holmes.  He tries to get his son to like him.  Tries to pay for his mortgage.  Unfortunately, you will have seem most of the great punchlines in the trailer.  There's certainly more in the movie, but the best stuff is in the trailer already.  I hate when that happens.

I was a bit bothered by the politics behind the plot.  The movie kind of portrayed Aaron as a hero, which is a big boost for the tobacco industry, but any grown-up can take that I guess.  Teenagers... I don't know.

Now to our gay movie review.  Not much here, but we did have some crumbs.  J.K. Simmons' character calls someone a cocksucker (what is up with that particular slur recently?).  So, it got off to a bad start, but the slur was more than compensated with Aaron saying that his employer should have cool people smoking, like Will & Grace, to set the "good example."  Good light.  I'm living out the reference to a scene with Aaron almost naked with cigarette patches all over his body, lying by the crotch of Abe Lincoln in his Memorial in D.C.  I am considering, however, Rob Lowe in a Japanese kimono.  That is too gay to pass.  I don't have the photos, but I kid you not.  Get out now.  Go see the movie (it will be playing in more theaters on March 31, 2006).

Comments

[Marcus]

Saw it last night!
Nice movie, good laughs
:-)
Rob Lowe in a Japanese kimono was great! LOL