All satirical movies should be watched with similarly satirical food accompaniments.
We watched Thank You for Smoking with Little Smokies (small sausages) and smoked brick cheese, smoked cheddar and smoked sausage. The thing with smoked food is that you can’t taste the smoke until it hits the back of your mouth, and then WHAM! It’s like you are actually smoking. Except, not really. Delicious evening, that’s for sure.
But as for the movie? Three things turned me off.
- Katie Holmes and the rest of the famous cast (if I’m more used to seeing your face on the front of tabloids than in movies, I’m going to have a hard time believing you’re the character). William H. Macy is similar, in that he’s in SO MANY movies – and he’s good at it – that it’s hard not to cheer when he comes on screen for being William H. Macy. Luckily, I think, because he can act, I forget he’s William H. Macy.
- Swearing. Every bad character swore. At least, that’s what I remember. When you have that much swearing in a movie, you bump up the rating (my 3rd point also does that quite well), so your message can’t be as effectively communicated to a younger audience. This movie has the kind of content that should be available to a younger audience, but it was rated R for ‘language and sexual content.’ Also, I feel that any author who can’t communicate what a swear word does using a larger vocabularly, has made an unwise choice (for aforementioned reason) as well isn’t demonstrating their ability to write.
- Sex. Why, why, why. I probably won’t watch this movie again because I felt like 10% of it was Katie Holmes having sex. Not really integral to the plot…just there because “hey, we swore so much already, why not do as much as we can with an R rating?!”
Guh. I’m just glad the cheese made me happy. An overall entertaining movie, but I wouldn’t recommend it or watch it again.
2 Comments
June 3, 2007 at 11:27 am
awww….i liked it christine and laughed a lot. though i so agree about the amount of sex that was pointless in terms of plot. but i would watch it again. thankfully my ‘buddy’ at out of the cold gave me a copy!! lol!
miss you.
June 5, 2007 at 12:28 am
darling, i am posting in regards to your comment on my blog. i am not to sure what you are getting at, so no dear, i am not in your head. i was just trying to express that i willingly choose to attend a small church that is more traditional because i value that. i do not like the big box/mega church feel and i do not like too much “charismatism” in my worship but I want my worship to be legit even though it might be small and boring. That is all that I was saying.