Smoking in movies

[bhampton]

Quote "I don't consider myself a smoker as I only have the occasional cigar"

Ha,.. you're kidding no?... If you're serious ... yes,... you are a smoker. The reason is ... you smoke.

But,.. you had to be kidding,... no?

-Brian

[The Great Owl]

I forgot about Le Cercle Rouge...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=89-ig0_dvlc

Of course, the opening scene of Le Samourai is epic...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XClIb696ViQ

[clacton0]

Know its not a film but I liked The Smoking Man in The X Files

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?sa=X&...art=38&ndsp=47

[mrr1]

I've never really notice smoking, except for the black stressed-out cop in Terminator accidentally lighting a cigarette while he already had one, and the mentally-distressed Ripley holding a cigarette (but not smoking it) in Aliens.

I also notice cigars (Hellboy, Wolverine, Groucho Marx). Cigars make you look like a badass. Cigarettes not so much.

[Gerby]

Any/All of Aki Kaurismaki's movies... His movies are like an advertisement for smoking, there is usually a character smoking in every scene of his movies.

[qb2333]

[blonde_devil]

I don't care if they smoke in movies as long as it fits and isn't over the top. People still smoke so why can't they in movies? Only thing I don't like is the cliche stuff: here is the rebel in leather smoking, here comes the villian and he is smoking, etc. That is just lazy character development.

[hagios]

Do not enjoy seeing it in movies or tv.

[MEB]

I've always felt smoking was a stupid thing to do. I mean, when a building is on fire and you're trapped inside, firefighters tell you to put a wet towel over your face and get close to the floor so you can avoid breathing the smoke because it will kill you. Yet, millions of people stick a cigarette in their mouth everyday. Stupid!

I was able to tolerate watching people smoke in movies because, as I was growing up, it was the "norm". But after I watched my mom suffer a long and excruciatingly painful death from lung cancer (she smoked for 45 years), now I can't stand to see ANYONE smoking. I vividly remember the look of terror in my mother's eyes as she slowly and painfully suffocated to death. She was hooked up to the morphine pump for 2 months and, other than sleeping a lot due to the morphine, she had all of her faculties. She knew she was dying, she knew it was coming soon, and she knew it was because of cigarettes. She was scared to death.

So, these days, when I see someone light up cigarette in a movie or anywhere else, I immediately think to myself… idiot! And, boy, NOTHING is more of a turn off for me than to see an attractive woman light up a cigarette. Gross!

Mark

[Monterey Jack]

I don't smoke, I consider it a filthy habit, and yet...it sure looks cool on film. Imagine any classic film noir movie where the characters didn't light up every two minutes. Reminds me of that scene in Body Heat where everyone in the room is grabbing their cigs and lighting up, and someone offers one to Ted Danson, and he turns it down with the line, "No thank you, I'll just breathe the air."

[Mahatma]

[klauswhereareyou]

Paltrow in The Royal Tenenbaums.

[xander]

That's been my favorite part of the retro gangster era output recently like Gangster Squad and Mob City. Slick looking people in clean suits lighting up Lucky's.

[wonkavision]

The Ninth Gate

[SDon1969]

[mrr1]

Originally Posted by MEB

Yet, millions of people stick a cigarette in their mouth everyday. Stupid!

It has much less to do with 'stupidity' and much more to do with the addictive properties of nicotine.

Starting smoking (especially with how sick it makes you feel at the start) is a stupid thing to do, people continue to smoke because the nicotine has already wrecked their nervous system so much that they feel like they are going to die if they don't get their nicotine does (cigarette) on time.

It's called quitting "cold turkey" because heavy smokers get sweats, goosebumps, and cold skin (like a cold, plucked turkey) when they quit suddenly. That ain't "stupidity", that's straight up addictive drug withdrawal (in this case, the drug being nicotine).

[Doctor Jack]

[Lacit170]

Originally Posted by bhampton

Quote "I don't consider myself a smoker as I only have the occasional cigar"

Ha,.. you're kidding no?... If you're serious ... yes,... you are a smoker. The reason is ... you smoke.

But,.. you had to be kidding,... no?

-Brian

um, no it wasnt a joke.... if you have the occasional Cigar once a month, i wouldnt consider you a smoker....a true smoker, smokes every day....he sounds like a social smoker....

youre taking it too literally....

smoking movie that comes to mind and it was really annoying since it was basically EVERY scene he was in the movie...

[donzo29]

Let's not forget all the great Disney smokers.

[bundyblu]

Johnny Depp smoking in Fear and Loathing was just awesome. That 'tip' thing he used was great. My buddies and I all wanted one after we saw that movie (majority of us smoke)