Thank You for Smoking

When Odette is climbing up the ladder in the beginning during the song, her dress turned from blue and then when the camera comes back on her, it's white with green.

During the MoD squad meeting, when Polly takes a bite of the pie she messes the cheese up, but in the next scene it's fine.

Also, when Nick sees the cheese on top of the pie it is not melted, but when he pauses to think and stares at the pie, the cheese is clearly melted around the edges.

After Heather's article hits the paper, Nick Naylor has a conversation with his son over a glass bottle of Coke.

The amount of cola in the bottle increases between shots.

In one of the hospital scenes, Nick is shown with an IV hooked up to a machine on a pole behind him.

The machine, however, is actually a tube feeding pump, not an IV pump.

There also isn't any tubing on it, or feeding solution, or IV solution.

During the MoD meeting, Bobby is shown wearing a tie with a very distinct pattern; in a later shot, his tie doesn't match.

In one scene, when Nick is talking to BR, the camera switches from looking at BR to behind BR.

When it is looking at BR he doesn't have his glasses on, but when the camera is behind BR, we see he has his glasses on.

In the dinner scene with Heather Holloway and Nick Naylor, Heather's glass of wine magically becomes more full.

When Nick is testifying before the Senate committee, there is a man in the front row behind him.

In the next shot, a woman is sitting in that seat.

Then, one shot later, the man reappears.

During the scene where Nick is talking to the press about Heather's article, as the film cuts to Heather Holloway in the office (when she drops the files while watching Nick on TV), the computer monitors on the desks clearly have no cables plugged into them, making the computers on which the other journalists are working useless.

When Billy is describing Heather to Nick he says she has blue eyes.

However, when we see Heather, her eyes are brown.

Nick is shown flying from Washington D.

to Greensboro, NC (the airport serving Winston-Salem) on a wide body jet.

No wide body has served this route in the last three decades.

When the "Captain" dies, Nick flies to Winston-Salem NC, to attend the funeral.

As the limos are pulling in to the cemetery, you can see the following on the bumpersTCP-54321.

That could only happen in California.

The CA Public Utilities Commission issues permits to operate limousines called Transportation Charter Party.

Each limo has to have the letters TCP and its individually assigned number on the corners of both front and rear bumpers.

Nick tells Jeff that lighting a cigarette in a space station would cause an explosion because it's an all-oxygen environment.

This is only partially correct.

In real spaceships, there is a pure oxygen environment but at a reduced pressure (about 5 psi) so there is no danger of run away explosions.

The Apollo I incident, where three astronauts died in a similar situation caused by an electrical spark, was a ground test and so the pure oxygen environment was about 15 psi - hence the run away fire.

When Polly is arguing with Nick about cigarettes and alcohol, in one shot her hair is tucked behind her ear.

Then in the next shot her hair is covering her ear.

Then in the last shots of her, Polly's hair is tucked back behind her ear.

While speaking to Senator Ortolan K.

Finistirre, Dennis Miller comments that he must have the senator's tie pin which is clearly visible.

The next two times that the senator is shown, his tie pin is gone.

It returns the third time the senator is shown.

In the hospital cafeteria when Bobby tries to give Nick the handgun, his finger jumps from inside to outside the trigger guard between shots.

When the Academy of Tobacco Studies closes, the sign being dismantled is different from the one shown in the beginning.

When Nick is giving the stats of how many people cigarettes have killed, the 1 appears in the millions place before the scrolling numbers hit 999,999.

The lobbyist for the alcohol industry, Polly Bailey, is labeled on the cover of the liquor trade magazine "Daily Drinker" as "Mother Burgandy" - a common misspelling of "burgundy".

Near the end of the movie when tobacco settles with the people of America by paying $256 billion, the courtroom-type picture shown on the screen is actually from the criminal trial of Larry Nevers and Walter Budzyn, Detroit police officers accused of negligence in the death of a citizen in 1992.

During a meeting of the "MOD" squad, Polly Bailey, spokeswoman for the alcohol industry asked for advice for her upcoming appearance on "Dateline".

The spokesman for the firearms industry then asked if Sawyer or Donaldson was going to do the interview.

Polly Bailey replied that "Sawyer" would be doing the interview.

Diane Sawyer and Sam Donaldson work for ABC.

Dateline is on NBC, therefore it would be impossible for Diane Sawyer to interview Polly Bailey on Dateline NBC.

When Nick's ex-wife and son visit Nick after the Heather Holloway article, he first talks to his wife from behind his closed door.

At this time he has stubble on his face from not shaving.

When he answers the door - and for the rest of the scene - he is clean-shaved.

In the scene where it flashes back to Bobby Jay Bliss's youth it states he tried joining the National Guard days after the 1971 Kent State shootings.

However, modern cars can be seen in the reflection of the Military Recruiter's door.

At Nick's press conference in which he addresses Heather's article, in the cut scene with Heather, you see from the window that she is located in a sky-scraper.

This is not possible in Washington because of the building height restrictions.

Director Jason Reitman points this out during the commentary.

During the MoD squad meeting, when Polly dips a piece of bread in her food it is a short piece of bread.

She lifts it to her mouth and it is a new long slice.

Next shot (seen from the side), it's short again.

During the second MoD squad meeting when Bobby Jay is talking about the Boeing pilot, Polly's right hand is on the table and her left hand is high and empty.

Change of camera angle and we see her lower a glass to the table.

At the end of the second MoD squad meeting when they are talking about Heather Holloway, Nick's fork inexplicably moves to his right hand.

After Nick testifies before the Senate committee he leaves his son Joey in the hearing room.

When Nick steps out of the building Joey is inexplicably at his side.

The back seat armrest when Nick and The Captain are talking in the Rolls Royce.

Thank You for Smoking is a political movie about the people who promote smoking and smooth talk the general public into buying their first pack. Nick Naylor (Araon Eckhart) is the chief spokesman for a Big Tabacco company and while he tries to remain a role-model for his son he has to stand by his beliefs and his job.

What I really love about Thank You For Smoking and what stands out the most about it is that it doesn't take any sides. It is neither a pro-smoking nor an anti-smoking film.

The acting is pretty good, the movie feels neutral and showed some change of the protagonist over his ideals and how people can learn. It has good acting, a tight and well written plot, a good soundtrack and deals with important themes in a neutral way.

Thank You For Smoking 8.981818182 out of 10- -Plot/Screenplay: 9.

It is difficult to tell whether this movie (which is based on a book) an attempt by the tobacco industry to get back at all of the anti-smoking sentiments that are around the place and to try to give smokers a voice, or whether it is simply a satirical look at the lobby industry. I would generally fall towards the second idea though I would not be surprised if funding for this movie, as well as funding for the underlying book, did not find its way from Big Tobacco.

Let me start by telling you why I gave this movie a 9. Starting with points- 1.

Director Jason Reitman, son of director Ivan Reitman, has forged a nice little career for himself. Is ability to tread the comic minefield of politically incorrect, sly, cynical comedy has resulted in some of the most subversive mainstream comedies to come out in the 2000's.

The movie Thank You for Smoking is focused around the life of a man named Nick Naylor who is big tobaccos chief lobbyist. Aaron Eckhart does a great job of portraying the silver tongued lobbyist Nick Naylor who is an extremely charismatic man who has enough charisma o convince the entire nation to pick up the habit of smoking.

If you have never heard of what a Gish Gallop is, educate yourself before you watch this piece of tripe.This is fascinating, because it's message is that hero worship is a justification for moral relativism, it is precisely what the American Republican party has become.