I saw this movie Saturday, and I have honestly not seen a movie this good in goodness knows how long. It’s totally funny. There were so many places where the temptation to moralize appears, and is avoided beautifully. Every performance was right on key (although I couldn’t help thinking that the boy who played the son had a too-small mouth). Aaron Eckhart was absolutely brilliant.
Susan
I loved it. It’s a very funny and very good satire.
Liked it a lot. Spreads the love around by satirizing every element – the lobbyists, the companies they work for, the politicians, the media. Certainly they all deserve it.
It played to a packed house here in Nashville last night, and got big laughs. I loved the scene where Nick Naylor visits his kid’s schoolroom, and also the boardroom scene where he talks up cigarettes in movies–excellent acting there.
Smooth, cynical, snarky, and consistently funny. I loved it.
Whenever I see the trailer, I say, “Wow, a movie taking on big tabacco. How brave!” (sarcastically, of course). It sounds like there’s more to it than that?
I saw it last night. What a great movie!
I kept looking at Nick Naylor’s X wife (Jill) and wondering where I knew her from. That’s Joanie Stubbs from Deadwood! (well the actor’s name is Kim Dickens).
Did anyone else notice the name of the school that Joey Naylor attended? St Euthenasia’s Funny Stuff!
E3
I saw it Friday and I LOVED it. Even funnier and better than expected. It got good laughs here at the tiny (56 capactity) ‘art-house’ theater here.
Um, well, there’s 180 degrees more to it. It’s not at all, in any sense, “a movie taking on big tabacco.” It’s not about tobacco at all.
It’s about spin.