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omnistry
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Joined: Wed Jan 19, 2005 1:42 pm Posts: 1373 Location: Lynn, MA
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 Thank You For Smoking
Turn off the computer, get off your ass, and see this movie. The greatest piece of satire ever!
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Sat Apr 08, 2006 9:26 pm |
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Jomei
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Joined: Sat Jan 15, 2005 10:52 pm Posts: 6497
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I really want to see it, but it's not in our theater... hopefully it will come.
I did, however, see Inside Man, which was awesome.
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Sat Apr 08, 2006 11:47 pm |
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Sawao Yamanaka™
vain dog
Joined: Tue Mar 15, 2005 7:53 pm Posts: 378 Location: The almighty land of Nebraska
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I just saw it today, It was awesome shit.
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Sun Apr 16, 2006 7:28 pm |
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Kaze no Mirai
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Joined: Sat Jan 22, 2005 5:25 am Posts: 1125 Location: California
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Whats it about, exactly?
Theyre showing it right by my house.
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Mon Apr 17, 2006 1:11 am |
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GoldenRhino
...don't give a fuck
Joined: Fri Sep 30, 2005 12:20 am Posts: 5745 Location: vancouver
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Thank You For Smoking I thought was totally mediocre. Yes, it succeeded at being satirical, but honestly...we already KNOW about the spin, we know how people in the tobacco companies are completely evil...it just didn't present anything new.
The Daily Show and Colbert Report are on 4 nights a week. Personally, I think the Colbert Report is crap -- but really. Jon Stewart nails satire. It's cutting, funny, and new.
Thank You For Smoking everything that may have been "witty" about big tobacco about 5 years ago.
The thing is, the audience already knows all of the crimes of the industry, along with the ways they try to cover it up.
I loved the Hollywood Agent when the camera cut to him in a kimono. That was pretty good.
Does anyone else agree with me here that Thank You For Smoking was pretty unoriginal?
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Mon Apr 17, 2006 2:13 am |
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Tatsu-Kun
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Joined: Sat May 14, 2005 9:08 pm Posts: 1398 Location: The ghetto more affectionately known as Concord, CA
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The Daily Show isn't even as funny as it use to be.
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Mon Apr 17, 2006 7:40 pm |
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Alero
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Joined: Thu Jan 26, 2006 3:16 am Posts: 212 Location: In the contents of my infinitual mind
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I haven't even seen V for Vendetta yet. Where the hell do I live?
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Wed Apr 19, 2006 1:16 am |
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sheerheartattack
terra's homie
Joined: Mon Feb 20, 2006 1:23 am Posts: 5702 Location: New Jersey
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[quote="Tatsu-Kun"]The Daily Show isn't even as funny as it use to be.[/quote]
And they used to be pretty ambivalent. Somewhere, somehow they took a hard left turn.
Anyway, smoking adds plenty of tax revenue for the government that we, as non-smoking individuals, therefore, do NOT have to pay. Go smoking.
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Thu Apr 20, 2006 7:18 am |
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