An Inconvenient Truth
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Movie Reviews of An Inconvenient Truth
Movie Review: "That Al Gore Film"
Summary: 5 Stars
Most Americans have heard of "that Al Gore documentary." Well here it is, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH.
If you've followed U.S. politics at all over the past 20 years, you know that Al Gore is the environmental poster-boy thanks to his take on global warming and other green issues. It wouldn't be difficult to surmise that his presidential run may have been hamstrung by this very topic. Big Business doesn't usually sit in the environmentally friendly arena, and Big Business most certainly contributes (via backdoors) to candidates financial checking accounts.
For better or worse, Al Gore lost his presidential bid. The "better" aspect is that Al was then free to do whatever he liked with his life. He wouldn't be in the spotlight or battling legislators. So what did he do? He went back to his roots.
An Inconvenient Truth, a lecture/slide-show Gore has probably given hundreds of times, would otherwise be pushed aside by politicians as an attack on industry if it were done by anyone else. But Gore's been on the inside. His science is strong and his data backed by nearly every scientist on the planet (note the word "nearly", as some simply do not agree, but the overwhelming majority - 90% or higher - do). This is an important fact, as scientists follow data, not personal beliefs or the S&P 500.
The entire documentary is about global warming and how amazingly ignorant or apathetic the world has become because of our reliance on outdated technology, our increasing population, and our refusal to change. The outdated technology is mostly about automobiles, since they produce the most greenhouse gas emissions. The fact that the world's population has gotten out of control can be seen simply by looking at various countries' census reports and then comparing them to agricultural and water needs. Our refusal to change is focused on throughout the film thanks to our reliance on oil, coal, and other non-replenishables.
Al Gore has to be commended for doing such a great job on this documentary. He is the center of it, but he so effortlessly takes the focus off of himself and puts it on these hot-button topics that it's easy to forget we're learning material from a former vice-president. That was truly astonishing.
Gore's passion for the global warming issues are admirable and most will probably be thankful that he's out there pushing this topic, trying to bend the ear of every person he possibly can. Make no doubt about it, he's making money off this project, too. But viewers would probably rather see someone as important as Gore making money this way rather than working for Enron or Exxon/Mobil.
Movie Review: The prototypical doc taken to another level,
Summary: 5 Stars
I have to say one thing at the start of this review. I'm gonna air some dirty laundry that I have concering what I've learned thanks to this film. The film itself is amazing. Beautfully shot and edited by Davis Guggenheim that finds the balance between the lecture and Gore's journey.
One of the criticisms leveled at this film was why Gore seemed so passionate here and on the 2000 Election he seemed bland and the Frankenstein creature as Jonah Goldberg called him in National Review. He makes it clear in the film that what that election did was wake him up in some way. After "losing" the election he had to asess what he had to do next and, after being a career enviromentalist in the Senate, he knew what he had to do. He learned and studied and went places where the threat of global warming was at it's highest.
I also feel that he won't run for president in 08. He's spent thirty or so years in government. As he says, "The victories that weren't really victories." He's probably burned out by it and he no longer has faith that the government can solve these problems and I, quite frankly, feel the same way.
Watching this, I couldn't help but think about the average person's response to something like gas prices. When they start going up, all you hear from people are when and if the prices our gonna go down. You don't hear people talking about things like mass transit, alterative fuels, etc. Granted, it's not the immediate concern but what I'm saying is you NEVER here it. You hear it now because of films like this, because of Hurricane Katrina, the introduction of the Hybrid vehicles. What does that mean? It means that like the doc "The Corporation" said, that corporate (and even govermental) social responsiblity is a PR scheme, it's a marketing decision, and they can go back on them if they see their profits drop. It also makes our responisbility as consumers clear, we have to make it clear, by what we buy and do, that they can't go back to their old ways.
But concluding this rant, and I'm sorry for that, I have a darker view of humanity after seeing this film. I have become an pessimistic optopmist. I want something like the sea levels rising 20 feet, or another ice age hitting Europe, or sea level acidity rising so it can't support various kinds of life. I want something like that to happen because, as Gore points out, our nervous system is like the frog in the lukewarm water being slowly brought to a boil, cause that's what it's gonna take. But I can't bring myself to belive that we would let that happen.
Why don't we really care?
Movie Review: I Just Threw Up In My Mouth - Thanks to Dean from Texas.
Summary: 5 Stars
Hey "Dean" from Texas, thank you for sharing that insightful and articulate review with us. It was just full of valid points about Mr. Gore's documentary.
Yes Dean, volcanic eruptions are natural and periodic events that release tons of harmful materials into the atmosphere. Thanks for stating the obvious.
Wow, I see your logic now Dean - stating this somehow detracts from the fact that we humans are spewing billions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere at an exponential rate on a daily basis. (not natural, not periodic...)
I saw you're list of reviews, and man, according to you works by Ann Coulter are "LOADED with hard facts!"
Loaded with hard facts? Then it must be just like your review of Mr. Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, where you state that Al Gore got his "but" handed to him in the 2000 election.
Actually Dean, Gore barely lost the election in the Electoral College, after the results of the popular election showed Gore had won, with 48.4 % of the votes going to Gore, and 47.9% of the votes going to Bush. He really got his "but" handed to him there.
Don't believe me? Look up some of those "hard facts" on wikipedia.
You finish your review of Ann Coulter's "Treason: Liberal Treachery" by stating that "I don't read a whole lot of books but I could not put this one down."
No need to be modest now Dean, its quite apparent to the rest of us you "don't read a whole lot of books"
Last but not least Dean, my favorite part of your review was your title - "Global warming my a**!"
Man, reading that title just made me envision a political discussion amongst a group of angry, middle-aged Texans with beer bellies hanging out of the wife beaters they're wearing. You, the smart one of the group, just heard about Mr. Gore's documentary on global warming. You decided you must discuss this matter with some fellow Texans.
You walked across your trailer park in the sweltering heat where you meet up with two of your buddies. You take a sip of your beer, scratch your stomach, burp, and then proclaim aloud "Global warming my a**!" Your buddies take a sip of their beer and nod their heads in agreement.
You then took the time to find a computer and write a review. Do us a favor next time and don't bother. Keep your "insights" within the limits of that trailer park in Texas.
Listen people, if you want to understand global warming, then watch An Inconvenient Truth. If you want to be like Dean here, then don't watch it, and don't learn anything.
Movie Review: I Just Threw Up In My Mouth - Thanks to Dean from Texas.
Summary: 5 Stars
Hey "Dean" from Texas, thank you for sharing that insightful and articulate review with us. It was just full of valid points about Mr. Gore's documentary.
Yes Dean, volcanic eruptions are natural and periodic events that release tons of harmful materials into the atmosphere. Thanks for stating the obvious.
Wow, I see your logic now Dean - stating this somehow detracts from the fact that we humans are spewing billions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere at an exponential rate on a daily basis. (not natural, not periodic...)
I saw you're list of reviews, and man, according to you works by Ann Coulter are "LOADED with hard facts!"
Loaded with hard facts? Then it must be just like your review of Mr. Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, where you state that Al Gore got his "but" handed to him in the 2000 election.
Actually Dean, Gore barely lost the election in the Electoral College, after the results of the popular election showed Gore had won, with 48.4 % of the votes going to Gore, and 47.9% of the votes going to Bush. He really got his "but" handed to him there.
Don't believe me? Look up some of those "hard facts" on [...].
You finish your review of Ann Coulter's "Treason: Liberal Treachery" by stating that "I don't read a whole lot of books but I could not put this one down."
No need to be modest now Dean, its quite apparent to the rest of us you "don't read a whole lot of books"
Last but not least Dean, my favorite part of your review was your title - "Global warming my a**!"
Man, reading that title just made me envision a political discussion amongst a group of angry, middle-aged Texans with beer bellies hanging out of the wife beaters they're wearing. You, the smart one of the group, just heard about Mr. Gore's documentary on global warming. You decided you must discuss this matter with some fellow Texans.
You walked across your trailer park in the sweltering heat where you meet up with two of your buddies. You take a sip of your beer, scratch your stomach, burp, and then proclaim aloud "Global warming my a**!" Your buddies take a sip of their beer and nod their heads in agreement.
You then took the time to find a computer and write a review. Do us a favor next time and don't bother. Keep your "insights" within the limits of that trailer park in Texas.
Listen people, if you want to understand global warming, then watch An Inconvenient Truth. If you want to be like Dean here, then don't watch it, and don't learn anything.
Movie Review: I Just Threw Up In My Mouth - Thanks to Dean from Texas.
Summary: 5 Stars
Hey "Dean" from Texas, thank you for sharing that insightful and articulate review with us. It was just full of valid points about Mr. Gore's documentary.
Yes Dean, volcanic eruptions are natural and periodic events that release tons of harmful materials into the atmosphere. Thanks for stating the obvious.
Wow, I see your logic now Dean - stating this somehow detracts from the fact that we humans are spewing billions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere at an exponential rate on a daily basis. (not natural, not periodic...)
I saw you're list of reviews, and man, according to you works by Ann Coulter are "LOADED with hard facts!"
Loaded with hard facts? Then it must be just like your review of Mr. Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, where you state that Al Gore got his "but" handed to him in the 2000 election.
Actually Dean, Gore barely lost the election in the Electoral College, after the results of the popular election showed Gore had won, with 48.4 % of the votes going to Gore, and 47.9% of the votes going to Bush. He really got his "but" handed to him there.
Don't believe me? Look up some of those "hard facts" on [...]
You finish your review of Ann Coulter's "Treason: Liberal Treachery" by stating that "I don't read a whole lot of books but I could not put this one down."
No need to be modest now Dean, its quite apparent to the rest of us you "don't read a whole lot of books"
Last but not least Dean, my favorite part of your review was your title - "Global warming my a**!"
Man, reading that title just made me envision a political discussion amongst a group of angry, middle-aged Texans with beer bellies hanging out of the wife beaters they're wearing. You, the smart one of the group, just heard about Mr. Gore's documentary on global warming. You decided you must discuss this matter with some fellow Texans.
You walked across your trailer park in the sweltering heat where you meet up with two of your buddies. You take a sip of your beer, scratch your stomach, burp, and then proclaim aloud "Global warming my a**!" Your buddies take a sip of their beer and nod their heads in agreement.
You then took the time to find a computer and write a review. Do us a favor next time and don't bother. Keep your "insights" within the limits of that trailer park in Texas.
Listen people, if you want to understand global warming, then watch An Inconvenient Truth. If you want to be like Dean here, then don't watch it, and don't learn anything.