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  • Anyone else notice that the guy (nick naylor I think) never actually smokes in the movie?

  • It is funny how the son and the Header never met in movie ... It is great how paying the mortgage and being sound met in this movie. And when they do mortgage wins. I don't believe money over morale. But I believe in game it self...

  • love it

    

  • Loved it Thanks for posting

  • Technically Charles Manson didn't kill anyone...he convinced others to do it for him.

    But then again, I guess that's where the irony lays.

  • @FanficfantasticSROC the whole under 18 arguement just further shows the point of the movie! He doesnt care what he is argueing for his job is to always be right and for him being right is whatever his boss wants him to say is right! Its his job to be right and that is the point of the movie itself.

  • @LethallyEpic15 Philosophical Mr. Hannah.

    Just plain philosophical.

  • loooooved that movie!

  • idk what my talent is =/

  • Just the first of many epic Jason Reitman films!

  • LOL THAT HEATHER BITCH GOT TOLD! HAHAHA!

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  • one of those love/hate movies. Had to watch for a class, but only required to watch 50 minutes, I watched the entire thing. Thanks for posting.

  • The thing that really bugs me about this movie is I leave it feeling the same way as I felt entering it. I still don't understand cigarette's advocates and their motives and I feel absolutely no emotional connection to the main character. I look at him and all I see is what the non-smoking advocates see: a man I don't understand. This is so disappointing because the subject matter is so interesting and the movie had the potential to really made a statement.

  • @FanficfanaticSROC Its a satire boy. Point of the story. People know cigarrettes are bad but it makes them feel good and they dont care. All the while they are rich bastards profiting off it. The dumb will smoke and the people who know better will not.

  • @FanficfanaticSROC , you are right, non-smoking advocates dont understand what his doing. But the point the movie is to show how to argue how to win over your audiences. It doesnt matter what the people who you are arguing is right or not, because as long as you can shift the topic to something else that you are absolutely sure is right, and you concentrating arguing that, you win over your audiences even you dont win your opponent,

  • @FanficfanaticSROC just as there is a scene that the character sat down with his kid, the kids like but I am still not convinced, and he said what im trying to win is them, pointing to people around him

  • He did kind of screw himself with the whole he's not 18 argument, since the point he's emphasized throughout the movie is that people should have the freedom to make their own decisions, and the ban on cigarettes for those under 18 should be considered by him as the government regulating and stifling the freedom of the American people, so by his logic his son should have the right to smoke even if he's not 18.

  • @FanficfanaticSROC He did not. Going down the route of "the very law banning under-18s is bad" route would mean going off-topic, AND taking up the burden of persuading the audience, which is a very heavy burden indeed. Instead, he chose the much easier route. And he didn't screw himself over, because had he been asked if he thinks the ban on under-18s smoking is right, arguing that it isn't would've still been consistent with his previous arguments.

  • @ilonaed I guess you're right, but the topic of under-18 vs over-18 is a subject of hypocrisy in the tobacco industry, since they claim to respect the law but they also advertise and target those who are not 18 yet.

  • @FanficfanaticSROC The matter is a subject for another debate :))

  • why is the american governement the best government in the world? What a joke...

  • This is absolutely one of my favorite movies. It should have been a much bigger hit than it was, but the American people were immersing themselves in political correctness, essentially becoming a giant flock of sheep.

  • @adraim69 The Captain was smoking a cigar in his hospital room

  • excellent Movie.

  • The ending is just epic.

  • @mauriciohavok Dude, learn the definition of "epic"

  • @z101510 Words can gain new meanings with time, that's what keeps language alive.

  • @mauriciohavok thebestpageintheuniverse(dot)n­et/c(dot)cgi?u=epic

  • @z101510 by definition neither the ocean or the universe are epic, if you don't want language to evolve then go live under a rock.

  • A very good movie with an extremely clever script!

  • damn, Imma need a cigarette after this movie.

  • Thanks for posting this excellent movie.

  • damn... I need a square

  • Brilliant film

  • This is now one of my favorite movies! Moderation really is the key when it comes to any vice. We also should see things in view of our own mortality. I can't use that argument because death isn't something most people want to think about.

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  • Great film... Time to light up responsibly

  • that movie was extremely good

  • good movie

    

  • LOL this is funny, Now the WHO says that Cellphone does cause brain damage. funny

  • @EFSpartan They don't say that. They say it COULD, meaning that they can't find good evidence that it does. CYA is really misleading. Rf radiation does not have the energy to produce free radicals or cause direct damage to DNA as UV would. Without that, what do you have to worry about? Dielectric heating? Yeah, you could fry a rabbit in a microwave, but a cell phone doesn't have the power. You're not going to get immediate damage from heating using a cell phone.

  • And nowadays we do know that about 99% of the cellphones on the market causes cancer.

  • @PedroMM193 Yea but no one gives a dam :U the news and media makes everyone so much cautious of everything nowndays . I think we should just chill.

  • Thanks very much for posting - not only for an interesting movie but also for setting it up to autoplay and in sequence..:)

  • they just recently proved cell phones cause cancer, fun coincidence

  • @LancePoint9 Cell phones cause cancer to the very intellectual fabric of society. And to grammar.

  • Lol, this movie reminded me of how, when I turned 18, my mom (not my dad, ironically enough) was the one that bought me my first 6-pack.

    Good times.

  • Alright well I'm not gonna get into the whole smoking debate in which, the people who do smoke bash the people who don't, and the people who choose not to smoke believe that everyone else in the world should feel the same way they do. Thats a stupid thing to argue about, especially, over the fucking Internet. It's pretty pathetic actually. No the reason I am commenting is to say THANK YOU to the genius who decided to post this entire movie for ALL of OUR viewing pleasure. So thanks buddy, I'm s

  • Brilliant movie, and adraim69 is right no one smoked, lol Nick Nailer. Damn I may just start smoking weed again along with cigs lol their hidden agenda has worked!

  • But i remain convinced that smoking seems cool and sexy when you see actors Such as cary Grant or bogart smoking in movies.

    but i won't smoke anyway ...

  • I love it ! Such a great movie ! It makes me laugh , oh God : this Man is So bad and so cool even if his job is awful . Lobbying seems to be quite funny actually but as he said , it requires to be moral flexible . ^^

  • I'm a quitter,,believe me non-smoker, smoking is great. cant wait to smoke again.... in heaven

  • @buangbatu thets right man non smokers want us to stop making our longs black wtf they are racists :P

  • I love the charles manson bit

  • i lit one up before part 2

  • If you never smoked a cigarette you're a loser. But don't get hooked. It will kill ya. At least try it.

  • @phatcrayonz I'm not allowed to smoke cigarettes. I run marathons.

  • @ffaithii

    I know a guy who does cross country and is a smoker. He's relatively light though, and only smokes two cigarettes a day, as opposed to the 20 most smokers inhale every day.

  • @AssholePatrol He can do cross country all he likes. I compete to win so I must do everything I can do keep my body healthy. ;D

  • Terrific film!

  • "Charles Manson kills people" LOL

  • according to the related videos charles also sings a tune or two. lol

  • i never smoke a cigarette in my entire life and i have pride for it.

  • @emmmanueeel

    you pusssy!!!

  • @SuperChan777 no i am more smarter that`s why that i didnt smoke!

  • @emmmanueeel But chances are you've eaten junk food, drank alcohol, stood to close to a microwave, or neglected to use sun screen. These are choices you can choose to make, just as other people choose to smoke. All of them may eventually kill you...and so might a tsunami or a car crash.

    So, you're no better than anyone else, and you can die just as easily.

    I've never smoked, you've never smoked, but that's just our choice, not everyone else's.

  • @emmmanueeel why?

  • you have to resign when you have made it to the top, and never be more ambitions because that it may take you down.

  • Thanks Brian, great movie!!!

  • Who is the new M.O.D member shown on the left of the Alcohol woman and the right of the Fast Food guy? The symbol looks like the Eiffel Tower to me .

  • @ItsJester94 looks more like one of those oil towers that they have above underground oil.

  • @ItsJester94 Oil Drilling

  • The Son Character is so important in this movie it holds Mr Naylor Character throught out the movie. i just paid attention to it in the 2nd time watching

  • meh, I don't much care for this movie. I mean the "what?" is clear: pro-freedom, don't censor blah blah. But the "how?" is really weak. If we are Pro-Freedom, then the reporter-gal's also right! Then how come she ends up getting smacked in the face with palm fronds, while our protagonist is schooling people twice his age?

    Want a good pro-freedom message? Read "READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN"

  • @Itsdark politics, that's all it is. saving face and abusing the competition. whether or not halloway was right, she lost the more important battle.

  • @Kaduos maybe you're right. But, then, what exactly is the movie saying? It aims to be shocking and controversial with its title and topic handled, but it falls short of its own mark by simply making the bland and noncontroversial statement, "People lie." Well...thank you for telling us something we already knew.

  • @Itsdark One of my favorite things about this film is that we're not spoonfed a cut-and-dried message. Like life, things don't turn out fairl, or just, or ironically perfect. There are a lot of choices to be made by the audience about the meaning to be taken. It provokes you to think. There's lots to like in a film like that.

  • @Itsdark If u didn't notice Nick never lies he always stays true but does his job and does it good.The reporter seemed like Nick but she had no boundaries Nick always gave people a choice and instead of thinkin negatively he was Proactive.He showed love,honesty,bravery and in the responsibility. The reporter pretended she had those qualities but in the end it was all about her. For Nick it was about the logger,the sweat shop owner,the oil driller,the land mine builder and the baby seal poacher.

  • @hioshimtsu I hope you are being sarcastic. Nick has boundaries?! What exactly are those? His argument is all about Not having boundaries, pro-Freedom, open-mindedness etc. Only when it comes to his own son does he decide to own up to hypocrisy. But because we want our typical Hollywood ending, he's shown preaching to those analysts at the end. What makes him different from the reporter-lady? I'll tell you: he was better at lying than she was.

  • @Itsdark "some things are just more important than a mortgage" To me Nick was simply a defender who thought that everyone had the right to a defense. No one is forcing anyone to smoke and everyone knows the consequence. How can u smoke a pack a day and then turn around an say if it didn't exist u wouldn't be dieing. You would of found some other guilty pleasure..drugs alcohol guns. Nick could of been like the reporter, career in shambles, no hope.. but he had a son whom in the end saved him.

  • whats the song in the end called?does anyone know?

  • @thisisnotgurke ya it's greenback dollar

  • if he realy wants a cigarrete ill buy him his first pack if all parents wer like tht

  • This movie is all about rhetoric

  • This was a really good movie. But who thinks this movie satirizes the battle going on about smoking in general or the continued moves to restrict our ability as citizens to make choices that affect our lives

  • @Matt139B that is actually the theme of the movie. the freedom to choose to think versus others telling us what to.

  • nick jus showed vern schillinger

  • Oh shit!! I just watched this part instead of part 2, how the fuck could I miss read 9 as a 2?

  • @EuanRams Your an idiot?

  • @AartyMc Lol, I actually am.

  • does someone know the song in the end?

  • does someone know the song in the end? love it!

  • I couldn't watch this on netflix so...Thank you for the upload!!!

  • Cell phones don't actually cause brain damage. :P

  • winston tastes fuckin' good

  • 4:50 time for a smoke.

  • @motorcityplaya

    so true

  • In the side bar, the final part of 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch - the movie' has more views than this movie.

    I worry about the future of humanity sometimes.

  • lmao...cellphone can lead to brain cancer that theory is somewhat made me laugh :)

  • Something you might not have noticed: not a single person was shown smoking in the movie.

  • @adraim69 haha yh!

  • @adraim69 when he was in the hospital, the captain had a cigar i think... but not lighten up..

  • @adraim69 65 people including you didn't notice at 7:52 on part 6/9 The boss was smoking a cigar on a flat screen in the hospital just after the doc says "cigarettes saved your life"...and Nick replied " Can I quote you on that Doc"...oh and I don't know if this counts but When they were testing on the mice they used smoking to see if it was addictive....and..oh yeah and..The Marlboro Guy had a poster of him Smoking ( Not sure if it was a Cools..lolololol)

  • @hioshimtsu Not true. The boss's cigar is not actually lit in that scene. And I don't count posters, nor would I include that research scene, because no people are actually seen smoking in the movie.

  • @adraim69

    .... captain is SMOKING a cigar in part 3 i think.

    but no there's no cig's being smoke.

  • @adraim69 -.- I noticed, whatta dissapointment

  • holy shit that is a good movie

  • ima go smoke a cig now

  • 3:30, straight out of George Orwells' 1984

  • Decisions. You either fuck your life or make it better with the choices you make. Someone can have heaven with your despised nightmares, and you may give a damn over that delicious and probably dangerous stuff you are using, if it gives you what you are looking for. Just think it: freedom is choosing whatever you like without limiting other´s freedom. Excellent movie, really good. Thanks!

  • CLASS FILM MAN 

  • Although we are constantly exploring this subject, currently, there is no direct evidence that links cell phone usage to brain cancer...LO fucking L

  • what an awesome movie

  • great movie.

  • 3:00 what industry is the guy on the far-left supposed to represent?

  • @RaynorX

    At first I thought the chemical Industry? But that is a "bio-hazard' warning sign

  • Nuclear power

  • amazing movie.

    oh, btw, people need to understand that this movie isn't really about smoking.

  • Of all the movies you can watch on youtube that haven't been banned, this is one of them... now why is that?

  • @BevilTex - Because it isn't really about smoking, it's about t spin.

  • that ending could not get any better

  • In Thank You For Smoking, the main character's name is Nick Naylor, and he tends to live up to his last name in his speeches. In Buckley's other book, Boomsday, the character is named Cassandra Devine, and she's planning on making a legalized suicide pact for elderly Americans, and she's constantly fighting with religious groups, so it makes the "Devine" part of her name ironic. This... is why Buckley fucking rules.

  • Take that you bleeding heart anti-smoking liberals. Nick Naylor pwnt your silly little "Tobacco manufactures death" BS.

  • @CommandoDude

    Watch your mouth. I'm a liberal, and even though I don't smoke and don't approve of smoking, I believe that a basic human right in America is having the freedom to put whatever you want into your own body. Besides, if we outlawed tobacco, we'd have a black market and drug cartels killing our citizens and wasting billions of dollars every year to fuel a pointless "war". You know, kinda like what we have going on with marijuana right now, or Prohibition from the 1920s.

  • @Suzaku000

    Well said

  • @Suzaku000 Sure, you have the right to be stupid. Congratulations. Now, do you really want to be stupid?

  • @superflyenglishvegan

    Like I said, I don't smoke, but I'm not going to stop anyone else from smoking. Besides, lung cancer is much better than the alternative...

  • The bad thing about this movie is that u never see people smoking in the movie? why the heck not?

  • @dikkeshitouwe Because it's that good.

  • I hate cigarrattes and I still do... but I truely love the movie

  • thanks for the upload

  • kind movie that makes u wanna have a cigarette after lol

  • Bad ass movies 

  • well ...

    one of the best movies and ...

    a good study in american Politics and buisness models !

    With a little SARCASM :-)))

    Brgds

    GSO

  • fuckin cool movie! thanks for uploading!!

  • Nick Nailer if i ever do porn thats the name im using

  • @MaTchBoOkPoEt Dick Nailer

  • @MaTchBoOkPoEt

    His name was Naylor ;D And it's a pornstar today using tha nam "Scott Nails" ^^

  • @MaTchBoOkPoEt naylor*

  • Democrats like this are in power now. thx for the nanny state america

  • @cacaolover1 I disagree. Unless you meant to put the word the in that sentence somewhere.

  • You mean, this film was the shit!

  • everything in moderation

  • Nuclear, Fatty Foods, Oil, Cigarettes, Guns and Alcohol.

  • "arent you changing history"

    "no..i think were improving history"

    ...her face is like wtf

  • Five star movie. And magnificant lead actor.

  • ciggaret's ,radiation it dont matter if you get cancer or not we all live and eventualy must die mabe sooner or mabe later just live by my old quote and you'll be fine "make each hour full of life not a life full of hours"..........<------ i made that an follow it an i got almost no worries at all

  • @BW248 whats the point of speedening up the process by smoking though?

  • @cacaolover1 because i choose to smoke,i choose to reply to this message i chose to watchthis movie.....i choose what i want to do in my life (with in reason) and if ciggarett's kill me then i chose how to die but i dont care about when or how im gunna go it matters only what i did befor that time comes i think every one should think to themselfs "how can i live my life to the fullest"

  • @BW248 thats the most beautiful thing iv ever read.

  • @BW248 'make each hour full of life' !? nice quote.. i congratulate u. that being said u must of spent more than an hour sitting on ur arse - like me - watching this film... how full of life was that time!??

  • @mikealex7184 simple i watched a movie of which i enjoy thus im living my life as to what i wish to do not what im forced to do if i was a editor for this film i may of not enjoyed it because it was somthing im forced to do the diffrence between forced and liked to is simple to miss that is difficult but as i also enjoyed commenting back to you not cause i felt iwas forced to but wanted to

  • @mikealex7184 and to add on to that hres another quote that can exsplain "to walk as a puppet is to make life simple but yet you will always do as others command you to" -82nd airborn private whicker-

  • @mikealex7184 and how many hours of your life have you spent on youtube? ;P

  • @RaynorX i imagine a few.. but if u read what i was responding to u'd know i neither said i didnt waste my life nor did i have a go at him for it.. we all just want to sit down and chill out sometimes! :)

  • btw guys, whats the last symbol for?

    after biohazard and fatty foods.

  • Looks like an oil well - maybe 'fossil fuels' or 'offshore drilling'?

  • oil

  • awesome show. thanks for uploading.

  • "everybody has a talent"

    "Not me!"

    *runs out crying*

  • The credit song for this movie kick ass

  • Cool movie. I stumbled upon it by accident and now it's 6 in the morning over where I am and I've just finished watching. But I don't regret:)

  • love this movie:)