If you like movie like death becomes her and war of the roses you’ll defintely like it. They know theyre doing wrong but they have ways around it. like in real life we know we’re doing wrong but if your not count it’s al;right. It’s unexpected. you won’t know what to expect.

I really expected it to be a bit more funny. The trailer made it look funnier than it is, but it fell short of my expectations.

Aaron Eckhart. Rawr.

It’s funny how I saw this headline “Krispy Kreme turns to tobacco industry veterans for fix, marketing help” the day after I saw the movie. I cared about the main character and thought he was smart.

This film was almost good but kept pulling away when it should have been piling on the satirical pressure. By following the traditional “I wuv you Dad” sub-plot underpinning many Hollywood films, “Thankyou” doesn’t quite deliver the killer punches it could’ve done.

The jokes should have been nastier and the humour bleaker.

Warning: Spoilers ahead….

I’d read and quite enjoyed the book. The commercials looked good, the casting was great. It seemed they’d captured the feeling of the book. I was really looking forward to seeing.

Of the people I viewed the film with, both the people who had read the book and the people who hadn’t hated this film!

I was fine with most of the deviations from the book, I know they have to cut stuff and rearrange things. (Some minor things that bothered me: I wish they had kept in the part about BR having kidnapped him. And, I thought it was more effective for him to discover he didn’t want any more cigarettes rather than have the doctor order him to stop smoking.)

However, the complete about-face of the ending RUINED the entire film.

I felt the point of the book was to show him reconsidering why he does this for a living and turn his talent for spin “to good”. However, the movie has him continue on in successfully spinning lies/propaganda for evil.

Why on earth would you make this film and not show the growth of the character that the book does? I thought this was the very point of adding the kid subplot and the only reason I tolerated it. It effectively showed the kid becoming manipulative like him and I thought when he turned to his son in the court and thought about what he was doing to him and teaching him, he would have an epiphany and change.

What was the point of changing it? Was this considered a more “realistic” ending. Well, I’d rather have him redeemed and likable – as in the original story.

Especially given our current climate of constant lies and spin from corporations, the government and the media, it would have been nice to see that manipulation examined and shown to be wrong, not glorified with a triumphant end for the spin-meisters.

The ending of the book was not to make this an issue about “free choice” or a message about “parenting” (Was this SUPPOSED to be ironic that he talks about responsible parenting while clearly turning his kid into a manipulative clone of himself?) The point I got was to think about what you are doing and the impact you have on others around you.

I have not seen a worse movie adaptation in a long time! I am very angry at the jerks that decided to pervert the entire point of the book!

AVOIDTHEFILM. Read the book. It’s twisted but funny. The satire is there, but also a message.

5/10 because I loved the acting (except Katie), the satire and for the rest of the film up to the false ending. The ending deserves a 1.

Thank You is a tremendously witty, sharp, and entertaining movie. It moves at a brisk, convincing pace through a delectable gauntlet of plot and visual. The soundtrack is absolutely perfect, and so is the integration of gorgeously subtle computer graphics for effect. An absolute delight, the dialogue flies back and forth and the plot moves like the cups of a con artist.

The basic thesis rests on the old academic vanguards of rhetoric and logical fallacy which are sadly seldom taught in our teach-to-the-job society. By using strawmen, ad hominems, and ad absurdums; by exluding the middle option; by redirecting the flow of conversation into new channels and choosing the battles, the protagonist soars to greater and greater heights. And so does the fabulous plot.

The depth may not be tremendous, but the picture is an utter delight. I recommend it wholeheartedly.

My one quibble is in the fate of one of the female characters. WTF was she busted down and WTF did she get busted down that far? It seemed as though the scriptwriters were perversely punishing her for being female. But it’s a footnote in this otherwise excellent movie. See it.

Fun Movie.

favorite quote:

“That’s the great thing about arguments. As long as you argue correctly, you’re always right”

“It’s not a negotiation. It’s an argument.”

This was a surprisingly entertaining movie. The satire was piled on a bit too thick for my taste, a constant reminder that the events in the movie weren’t really real. However, once I let go of my hope for a more serious treatment of a complicated issue I let myself simply enjoy the wacky antics.

I think I want to form my own weekly Merchants of Death meetings. They looked like a lot of fun.

…or re-read it, if you’ve already read it. The movie was okay but didn’t convey nearly the amount of humor the book did. It was a strange choice of book to turn into a movie, anyway, since so much of the humor was from dialogue and it couldn’t really be improved much by hearing, rather than reading, it. The best parts of the movie were the ones that were lifted straight from the book; unfortunately, they seemed to feel the need to turn it into some sort of sappy father/son story, which wasn’t present nearly to the same extent in the original book.

It didn’t really help that I was watching this movie in Berkeley with an audience of people who thought everything was sidesplittingly funny (I guess they hadn’t read the book, or they would have found it mostly disappointing in its lack of funny) and who kept saying things, loudly, like “That was awesome” and “He’s going to get in trouble for saying that” and — afterwards — “That was a great movie, they should nominate it for an Emmy or something.”

Also, it was weird that nobody smoked in the movie; maybe it had something to do with the plot point about bribing Hollywood execs to get actors in current movies to smoke, but in the scene where Nick’s in the hospital room and the doctor’s telling him he can never smoke again, it’s weird to see Nick upset about it when we haven’t even seen him smoking BEFORE!