thank you for smoking

yesterday the ned faction (neil, eliza, diana) kicked off the new year by seeing its first film of 2006. the eliza constituent may already have seen an '06 movie, but she is free to submit a correction. oh yeah, and neil already saw 'v for vendetta.' anyway, neil thought 'thank you for smoking' was cute for an amateur director. eliza thought the satirical factor should have been amped a bit. her expectations were raised in the nicotine-patch scene, then flattened by the non-farcical events that followed. diana thought the film was good at staying within its scope of illustrating a microcosm of the theory and application of capitalism, without being grandiose. and ned as a whole thought aaron eckhart was a babe.