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zingy
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 An Inconvenient Truth An Inconvenient Truth Quote: An Inconvenient Truth is a 2006 documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim about former United States Vice President Al Gore's campaign to educate citizens about global warming via a comprehensive slide show that, by his own estimate, he has given more than a thousand times.
Premiering at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and opening in New York City and Los Angeles on May 24, 2006, the documentary was a critical and box-office success, winning Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature and for Best Original Song. The film also earned $49 million at the box office worldwide, becoming the sixth-highest-grossing documentary film to date in the United States.
The idea to document his efforts came from Laurie David who saw his presentation at a town-hall meeting on global warming which coincided with the opening of The Day After Tomorrow. David was so inspired by Gore's slide show that she, with Lawrence Bender, met with Guggenheim to adapt the presentation into a film.
Since the film's release, An Inconvenient Truth has been credited for raising international public awareness of climate change and reenergizing the environmental movement. The documentary has also been included in science curricula in schools around the world, which has spurred some controversy.
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As a film that bills itself as 'the truth' I expect it to distort the truth quite a bit, considering that it's based on Al Gore's Global Warming presentation. Guess I'll pass.
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Well, I saw An Inconvenient Truth for the first time tonight, and it is simply chilling, or should I say -- just the opposite...
It is a powerful documentary indicting the viewer as complicit through complacency in our own species' potential decimation. It is a superbly argued and presented overview of the challenging situation facing us in the next 50 years, and more critically, right this second.
This is absolutely essential viewing for each and every inhabitant of this planet, and what's more, it's entertaining to boot!
Mark my words -- this film is prophetic - it is the new dividing point between past and future. Step up to the brink, and look over...
8 out of 5.
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zingy
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8 out of 5? Is that like "best movie ever"?
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Zingaling wrote: 8 out of 5? Is that like "best movie ever"? In order to not clutter up the thread with a debate on movie rating philosophy, please see the discussion on that topic in the thread on this film over in the Foreign and Independent Film forum...
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I was intrigued, interested, entertained by it all -- but ultimately unmoved. Gore's opining is convincing and fraught with conviction: he cares, and his one-man crusade comes off as meticulous, earnest, and even emotionally rooted.
But I kept waiting for something to appear on his handy Powerpoint or come from his mouth that would enlighten me or perhaps put a new spin on something. The data is worrisome; even a small occurence of the film's warnings would effect world devastation. And yet, although we see these climate models displaying things we'd otherwise probably never have seen and some foresight and connections that undoubtedly do make sense, my world wasn't shattered -- as the film's trailers had otherwise so proudly proclaimed it would be. Everything seems relevant, important, and necessary, but it's never surprising, and in that it loses some of its impact.
It's revelatory but breaks no ground.
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The oft-mentioned frog in the slowly heated water?
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And the sad, swimming polar bear trying to pearch himself upon the chunks of floating glacier?
I actually got a big laugh out of that.
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I also think the film goes a bit graph overload at times.
At one point during the film, my sister leans over to me and goes, "If I see one more line graph, I'm gonna barf."
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From Roger Ebert's Cannes interview with Al Gore:
Quote: This interview was last Sunday.
On Monday, an Associated Press story began:
Is President Bush likely to see Al Gore's documentary about global warming?
"Doubt it," Bush said coolly.
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bradley witherberry wrote: From Roger Ebert's Cannes interview with Al Gore: Quote: This interview was last Sunday.
On Monday, an Associated Press story began:
Is President Bush likely to see Al Gore's documentary about global warming?
"Doubt it," Bush said coolly. Bush only likes convenient untruths.  _________________Buy my books! http://michaelaventrella.com
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What would possess anyone to pay good $$$ to see something like this is baffling..
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BKB_The_Man wrote: What would possess anyone to pay good $$$ to see something like this is baffling.. I guess you'd have to pay good $$$ to overcome your bafflement... 
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bradley witherberry wrote: BKB_The_Man wrote: What would possess anyone to pay good $$$ to see something like this is baffling.. I guess you'd have to pay good $$$ to overcome your bafflement...
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BKB_The_Man wrote: bradley witherberry wrote: BKB_The_Man wrote: What would possess anyone to pay good $$$ to see something like this is baffling.. I guess you'd have to pay good $$$ to overcome your bafflement... How much press results from a movie on The Weather Channel?
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BKB_The_Man wrote: bradley witherberry wrote: BKB_The_Man wrote: What would possess anyone to pay good $$$ to see something like this is baffling.. I guess you'd have to pay good $$$ to overcome your bafflement... I see most movies on the big screen in their original release, but I also realize many people wait to see movies when they're finally shown on commercial television.
However, I doubt there are any of those kind of people on WOKJ...
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Dkmuto wrote: BKB_The_Man wrote: bradley witherberry wrote: BKB_The_Man wrote: What would possess anyone to pay good $$$ to see something like this is baffling.. I guess you'd have to pay good $$$ to overcome your bafflement... How much press results from a movie on The Weather Channel?
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I ended up wanting to like the film more than I ultimately did. There's an issue with Gore's narration, too much Ben Stein for my taste. My friend and I decided Bill Curtis should have narrated the film. I watch A&E's Investigative Reports just to hear his voice.
Also, I'm not sure the film allowed enough time for the bits of Gore's personal story. His sister, his son, his upbringing, all seemed rushed. I would rather they left all that to the side and focused on more graphs (kidding, about 10 graphs too many actually).
Still, it's the scariest film I've seen since Aeon Flux.
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My biggest impression after this movie was why couldn't this have been the guy who ran in 2000? There may have still been moments where he came off as too smart for the average American, but on the whole he actually had a personality.
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I went to see An Inconvenient Truth for the third time tonight - my upgraded review and rating can be found here...
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BKB_The_Man wrote: bradley witherberry wrote: BKB_The_Man wrote: What would possess anyone to pay good $$$ to see something like this is baffling.. I guess you'd have to pay good $$$ to overcome your bafflement... Right!
And the new Superman movie? Why don't they just put it on the Sci Fi channel! And Cinderella Man should have been on one of the sports channels instead of in the theatre. And don't get me started on animated films -- there are, after all, a couple of cartoon channels they could have been on.
Not only that, I understand that some people are actually reading books and magazines to learn things too, and some of these subscriptions are even more expensive than a movie ticket! Why someone would ever pay to learn something as well as being entertained is ridiculous.
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Groucho wrote: BKB_The_Man wrote: bradley witherberry wrote: BKB_The_Man wrote: What would possess anyone to pay good $$$ to see something like this is baffling.. I guess you'd have to pay good $$$ to overcome your bafflement... Right! And the new Superman movie? Why don't they just put it on the Sci Fi channel! And Cinderella Man should have been on one of the sports channels instead of in the theatre. And don't get me started on animated films -- there are, after all, a couple of cartoon channels they could have been on. Not only that, I understand that some people are actually reading books and magazines to learn things too, and some of these subscriptions are even more expensive than a movie ticket! Why someone would ever pay to learn something as well as being entertained is ridiculous. Yeah, I agree, BKB, it's a mystery why everyone doesn't think exactly like you. Its mystery why we all don't post in bold or that we post at all 
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Very, very, very timely and very relevant but also slightly underwhelming. One thing is for sure, this is no Michael Moore style film, though the filmmakers use an animated segment in an attempt to draw laughter. In reality though, An Inconvenient Truth is rather cut and dry and sometimes a bit akward. Some of the times when Gore's personal memoirs are interjected feel a bit out of place, as though they try to draw a sort of emotional connection that ends up not quite working.
In the end though, the relevancy of the films outweighs the downsides, its truely a film that commands a viewing, not necessarily theatrical but in some format. A strong documentary though certainly not the best in its class. B+
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I was somewhat bothered by the memoir thingys, but they all did connect in the end, it was just the way they segued (or failed to) that didn't work.
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bradley witherberry wrote: I went to see An Inconvenient Truth for the third time tonight - my upgraded review and rating can be found here... Wow, a 9 out of 5. That's, like, double-perfect. I must see this film (too bad it's playing in so few theatres and of course is therefore nowhere near me here in Canada...)
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