Thank You for Smoking: Helluva piece of art !!

Saw this movie "Thank You for Smoking" last week.... mindblowing, to say the least... Funny and witty and unlike many such films, it doesn't suck while reaching the climax.

The director cum scriptwriter Jason Reitman is very young, 28 year old: a stunning performance for his age. You can read his blogs or check his myspace profile .

He seems like a fun guy, enjoys doing what he does, and knows how to chill. This is reflected pretty well in his earlier indy works, and definitely on this piece of art. Usually I do not dig so much in the filmmaker's life and work, but this movie is crazy, so this is well-deserved !!

It is based on Christopher Buckley's acclaimed 1994 novel of the same title. It reminded me of Nick Hornby's writing, now I have to buy the book and read it asap. Aaron Eckhart who plays the lead to this film put as his narrative (with voiceover throughout the film) was never a major actor, though you might recognize his face, he does his part well. And Katie Holmes is brilliant in her role of a success-greedy journalist, I am still trying to figure out how she manages to tolerate Tom Cruise, one needs to be real accommodative to stand that man for more than 2 hours (we viewers are lucky that Hollywood Films are not longer).

The film also features Rob Lowe, Robert Duvall, Bill Macy, J.K.Simmons and Maria Bello.

See it if you like crisp humor, or non-slapstick humor, or just for the cause that you smoke...


Also saw some other films last week, like "Superman Returns" which calls for a separate blog entry even if I am not a superman fan as such. Saw "Failure to Launch" on DVD (and learnt how to do it better in Paintball shooting), good entertainment, and Sarah Jessica Parker is always a pleasure to watch though she keeps on repeating herself in every work she does, but boy, she is gorgeous in so very NY-way! Spent some time in catching up with 4400 (this one is good actually, unlike what I anticipated when I saw it for the first time). Got the first DVD of "Life as we see it" from Netflix, though it claims to be critically-acclaimed, I didn't find anything extraordinary. Seemed to me like an extended version of American Pie, with Scrubs-like crazy-thought-visions, just that these are not crazy enough to make you laugh.

A blog on my recent experience with Bangla movies follows...:)