Sunday, June 25, 2006
Why Does Carbon Dioxide Hate America?
So I saw An Inconvenient Truth, and I'd have to say it was probably a better film than X-Men III (interesting comparison of the two movies here). Hate to break it to you, gang, but it looks like Al's got the National Academies of Science, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (I know, they're a UN group, but I'll take it), and even the Bush administration's own Climate Change Science Program all backing up his claims (oh, and apparently so does Jesus). But even though it's now a fact that humans are making our environment less livable, it can't be too much of a problem--I'm sure corporations will create a new, probably better, environment for us to live in. The invisible hand, and all that.
Gore is very articulate and persuasive in the movie (I've just never agreed with the people who think he's boring, which says less about my politics than my social skills), though I wasn't the only person in the audience wondering what was up with all of the close-ups of Al staring sagely at his computer screen. The guy gets more quality camera love than Tom Cruise in his last eight movies.
If you want a spellbinding example of how political debate operates in this country, enter the film's title into Google News; you'll get a lot of articles claiming that the film is a financial flop and an embarassment, and an equal number touting the movie's success and predicting that it will be one of the top grossing documentaries in history (it is currently on the chart as #11). You'd think red states and blue states could agree on the criteria that constitute a profit.
So I saw An Inconvenient Truth, and I'd have to say it was probably a better film than X-Men III (interesting comparison of the two movies here). Hate to break it to you, gang, but it looks like Al's got the National Academies of Science, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (I know, they're a UN group, but I'll take it), and even the Bush administration's own Climate Change Science Program all backing up his claims (oh, and apparently so does Jesus). But even though it's now a fact that humans are making our environment less livable, it can't be too much of a problem--I'm sure corporations will create a new, probably better, environment for us to live in. The invisible hand, and all that.
Gore is very articulate and persuasive in the movie (I've just never agreed with the people who think he's boring, which says less about my politics than my social skills), though I wasn't the only person in the audience wondering what was up with all of the close-ups of Al staring sagely at his computer screen. The guy gets more quality camera love than Tom Cruise in his last eight movies.
If you want a spellbinding example of how political debate operates in this country, enter the film's title into Google News; you'll get a lot of articles claiming that the film is a financial flop and an embarassment, and an equal number touting the movie's success and predicting that it will be one of the top grossing documentaries in history (it is currently on the chart as #11). You'd think red states and blue states could agree on the criteria that constitute a profit.
# posted by toner_low @ 11:17 PM 
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Update--even though some people continue to insist that the film is a flop, An Inconvenient Truth is the 7th highest grossing documentary of all time. (Last week it was #11.)
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