{"id":1414,"date":"2006-04-05T23:28:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-06T06:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2006\/04\/05\/thank-you-for-smoking\/"},"modified":"2006-04-05T23:28:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-06T06:28:00","slug":"thank-you-for-smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2006\/04\/05\/thank-you-for-smoking\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank You for Smoking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everything <a href=\"http:\/\/kfmonkey.blogspot.com\/2006\/03\/thank-you-for-smoking.html\">John Rogers<\/a> says about this movie is true.  Go see it.  <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Now.<br \/><\/span><br \/>It&#8217;s easy for satire to go wrong, but <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Smoking<\/span> gets it right.  Even with all the voiceovers, subtitles, and other glamours, it never goes too over-the-top, never strays from its protagonist.  From the opening titles&#8211; designed to look like vintage cigarette packaging and accompanied by Tex Williams&#8217; &#8220;Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette&#8221;&#8211; to the unrepentant final scene, it&#8217;s damn near perfect.<\/p>\n<p>And as much as people decry nepotism in Hollywood, writer-director Jason Reitman (son of <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0087332\/\">Ivan<\/a>) has earned his stripes in my book.  Let&#8217;s hope he has better luck than Jake Kasdan (son of <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0085244\/\">Lawrence<\/a>), whose <span style=\"font-style:italic;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0120906\/\">Zero Effect<\/a><\/span> was brilliant but who hasn&#8217;t had much luck since then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything John Rogers says about this movie is true. Go see it. Now.It&#8217;s easy for satire to go wrong, but Smoking gets it right. Even with all the voiceovers, subtitles, and other glamours, it never goes too over-the-top, never strays&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}