A Fun Poll at Hot Air:

Poll: Best conservative movies in the past 25 years

Posted by Ed Morrisey. He's got quite a list up there, and there are plenty of old favorites like Red Dawn, Gladiator, Die Hard, etc. There's also a few newer movies like 300, Team America: World Police, Serenity and The Dark Knight.

I'd like to make a special case, however, for Thank You For Smoking. The movie follows protagonist Nick Naylor (played by Aaron Eckhart,) as he works as a PR man for Big Tobacco. In the face of Birkenstock-clad Senators, Cancer Boy, and anti-tobacco Terrorists he makes the case for the freedom to make decisions for yourself, even if those decisions are bad ones.

The unfortunate fact is that conservatives and libertarians are losing this battle. Across the United States, cities are enacting laws that forbid smoking in restaurants and bars. At the behest of health nuts who are convinced that releasing secondhand smoke in to the atmosphere is the equivalent of terrorists releasing sarin gas in a subway, business owners are being told that they cannot decide what to allow on their own premises. Citizens are being told that they cannot decide to smoke, to eat trans-fats or foie gras, to decide what they want to put in their own bodies.

Thank You For Smoking is for the freedom to make bad decisions what Team America: World Police was for American foreign policy. Please, dear readers (both of you,) consider casting a ballot at Hot Air for this amazingly good movie.