Screening Log
This new site feature is a collective effort to summarize our viewing habits. Occasionally, you will find titles here that are coming to a theater near you, in addition to films viewed on television, and even films viewed in piecemeal. The screening log is archived each month; to view past entries select a month in the menu below.
January 2008 activity
Total Log Entries: 53
- Adam (8)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (0)
- Cullen (0)
- David (12)
- Eva (2)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (4)
- Jenny (0)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (2)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (12)
- Teddy (1)
- Thomas (2)
- Victoria (3)
Total Comments: 41
- Land of the Minotaur (0)
- Don’t Go in the Woods (0)
- Road House (0)
- There Will Be Blood (18)
- Vixen! (0)
- Cloverfield (0)
- Prisoners of the Lost Universe (0)
- Firing Line (0)
- Blue Skies (1)
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail (0)
- Wild at Heart (1)
- Gone Baby Gone (1)
- The Shop Around The Corner (0)
- La Vie En Rose (0)
- No Country For Old Men (0)
- Die Hard With A Vengeance (5)
- Coal Miner’s Daughter (0)
- Charlie Wilson’s War (0)
- Tenebre (0)
- Voodoo Black Exorcist (0)
- Death By Dialogue (0)
- WR: Mysteries of the Organism (0)
- Saved! (0)
- Thank You For Smoking (2)
- Wall Street (0)
- Dreamcatcher (1)
- Halloween (2)
- Fearless (0)
- Atonement (1)
- Youth Without Youth (0)
- Dans la Ville de Sylvia (0)
- Offside (3)
- Scoop (0)
- The Man From London (0)
- The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (0)
- RoboCop 3 (0)
- The Devil Wears Prada (0)
- For Your Consideration (0)
- Eraserhead (0)
- Prime Time (0)
- The Manipulator (0)
- Silent Night, Deadly Night (0)
- No Country For Old Men (0)
- Flash Gordon (0)
- I Am Legend (3)
- Week End (0)
- Southland Tales (0)
- No Country For Old Men (0)
- Wild Hogs (0)
- Futurama: Bender’s Big Score (0)
- Charlie Wilson’s War (3)
- Epic Movie (0)
- The Elephant Man (0)
Full Archive
Thank You For Smoking / USA / 2005
Thank You For Smoking didn’t make me laugh out loud while I was watching it. But looking back, there were so many great touches of humour in this unlikely tale of a lobbyist for Big Tobacco – William H. Macy’s twitching, bouncing, Birkenstocked feet, Rob Lowe’s fantastic turn as a Hollywood mover and shaker, Aaron Eckhart’s friendly, Mr. Rogers earnestness as he explains to a small girl that her mother isn’t really qualified to say whether cigarettes are bad or not, now is she? (“Is your mommy a doctor?”) And the whole concept of the “M.o.D. Squad” — three lobbyists representing alcohol, tobacco, and firearms, who meet once a week and refer to themselves as the Merchants of Death — is pure genius.
Still, through most of the movie I held back my approval, worried that it would let me down. Worried that Eckhart’s cheery, shiny lobbyist would have a sudden conversion, teach his little boy that smoking was bad after all, and that people shouldn’t lie and spin for a living. It seems it’s been so long since I’ve seen a movie that didn’t come with a “happy ending” that I’ve forgotten they exist.
So, thank you, Thank You For Smoking. Thank you.
by Eva Holland | Source: Fox DVD
12 Jan 2008 9:06 PM | Comments (2)
Devin / 13 January 2008 / 12:23 AM / URL
The funny thing is, on the DVD, you can see an alternate “happy ending” that contains pretty much everything you described. Thank God Jason Reitman had the sense to recut it.
Also, I saw this on my college campus and it was a laugh riot. The line that got the biggest laugh was…
Polly: When did you fuck her? Bobby Jay: In passing.
Eva / 13 January 2008 / 10:07 AM / URL
Wow. I watched a shady burned version, so I had no idea about the alternate ending. Thank God, indeed.