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Maddie · Coach

An Inconvenient Truth

blubirde · Chanel

I've been wanting to see this but I haven't had a chance yet. It just opened last weekend in Austin, so maybe I'll check it out next week. I heard a bunch of stuff on NPR on it and the overwhelming comment people kept saying was, "where was this guy a few years ago?" and if this is his big issue (which I believe it probably is), why didn't he work on it during the Clinton administration? I personally like Gore a lot more than most people but I'm anxious to see the movie and see what everyone is talking about.

Kitty · Hermes

I kind of want to see it but I also know that if I do it will totally freak me out and make me worry even more than I already do.

rocky · Coach

I have been meaning to see this. I heard about some "documentary" the big oil companies made talking about how good CO2 was for the environment...such BS

Lilykind · Hermes

i really really want to see this. thanks for the rec.

Dizzy · Marc Jacobs

I've been reading articles for (he's saying what everyone knows but no one wants to fix) and against the movie (he's running for office in a really backhanded way...) and I really, really, really want to see it. But it wont' hit my small town for a while. If ever. God, I need to get out of the red states...

Kitty · Hermes

I saw it on Saturday and it's good. I was very freaked to see it because I knew it would make me paranoid..but, I'm glad I did in the end.

It made me about 100 times more depressed that he got robbed of the presidency and now we have a lunatic instead.

atlgirl · Gucci

I actually was very disappointed - just saw it tonight.

I feel that Gore didn't present anything new...perhaps because he's preaching to the choir with me (and my friends who saw it with me). And that the message - and call to action (saving that for the very end?? Half the theater didn't even stay to see that part) could have been much stronger. I also hated the completely political answer he gave that Asian girl when she asked for recommendations...bleh.

I'd heard that Gore was much more animated than before, but except for a segment about 3/4 the way through, I didn't really find him compelling. Plus, the movie (IMO) should have been more about the message and less about the messenger. I felt like a good part of this flick was "The Al Gore Show".

I'm not trying to be a downer about the movie. I am glad he's putting the word out there and that he's pushing the message. I just think it could have been *so* much better.

gypsyfreak · Coach

I saw it a few weeks ago and thought it was very good. I highly recommend that everyone go see it. I love Al Gore here because he comes across as personable and genuine, not at all robotic. I also thought the movie was more educational than politically charged.

Kitty · Hermes

atlgirl wrote:

I actually was very disappointed - just saw it tonight.

IAnd that the message - and call to action (saving that for the very end?? Half the theater didn't even stay to see that part) could have been much stronger.

I do agree with this. It kind of reminds me of Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn where he says the reason the 60s revolution failed was because they didn't offer a viable alternative to the problem. I think the majority of people already KNOW that there's some huge, disgusting, horrible problems happening in the world as far as the environment goes..but they don't know what a real alternative is. This movie should have spelled that out.

blink · Coach

saw it, liked it. I didn't previously know all the specific geological details, it was a lot to absorb, but like someone else said, it was kind of preaching to the choir for me, as I am already interested in environmental concerns and much of it I did already know if only in a general way. The stunning part for me was the data comparing the U.S. to ALL the other countries in the world.

I think I lost one friend when I sent a short email recommending the movie though. This friends responded by blasting me for being a "stupid liberal for listening to Al Gore" I said nothing political in my original email nor did I even mention Gore, I just said that it was a well made and serious documentary and that I liked it. oh well, good riddance, she's not just a conservative, she's a scary radical right winger who doesn't listen to any other view and I don't know why I have stayed friends with since HS anyway, I guess I thought she would come around someday. Sometimes it sucks to be from Oklahoma and now live in Texas, it is very hard to find like minded friends, I just have to remember they are here somewhere.

Bastet · Kate Spade

I thought this movie was great. But, I think that people who don't know much about global warming (or don't believe it exists) need to see it. Because even though I think it's great, I already know there's a problem. I think this movie should be required viewing in high schools and colleges.

lorelei wrote:

I think I lost one friend when I sent a short email recommending the movie though. This friends responded by blasting me for being a "stupid liberal for listening to Al Gore" I said nothing political in my original email nor did I even mention Gore, I just said that it was a well made and serious documentary and that I liked it.

It seems like a lot of people, convervative and liberal, only hear and believe exactly what they want to. Sorry about your friend.