Thank You For Smoking

I just saw "Thank You For Smoking". I'll be honest, i wasnt too impressed. I like the main question of the film: Do we choose or are we influenced? As a smoker, i do feel that i have the ability and will to choose against smoking but i do it anyways. I feel that the film gave excuses to cigarette advertising, the "freedom" of gun property despite its final attempt to the opposite. I do not feel that the atmosphere of these cigarette firms were created very realistically. I understand that it was meant to be somewhat satirical at all times but i didnt find that the attempt to this satire was succesful. I have a couple of questions about the script: Why are the cigarette guy, the alcohol girl and the gun guy all close friends? It doesnt make sense. Why would Aaron Eckhart's character bring his son into the Marlboro Man's house? Why is the wife angry at the boy? In reality, i dont feel that either of those things would happen.

The best part of the film was Aaron Eckhart's performance. I dont want people to see this as a truly negative "review" but i do feel that their attempt at a satirical observation of the "commercialization" and "moralisation" of cigarettes, alcholol, big business isn't as well narrated as i thought it would be.

Just to say, i have seen a couple of the movies of this early season and would like to put them in order of how good they were.

1. United 93(great work by Paul Greengrass in making us remember the details of 9/11 in an aesthetic complexity)
2. Half Nelson(great performaces. Knock, knock: Who's there. The Interrupting cow. The(WOOOH)
3. Akeelah and the Bee
4. Hard Candy
5. Thank You For Smoking