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wyldwolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 08:01 AM
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Partisan reviews of Al Gore's movie at supposedly neutral sites?
Edited on Fri May-26-06 08:02 AM by wyldwolf
Look, I know movie reviews are nothing but an editorial, but this one is a bit over the top from movies.com:

OK, here's my beef with Al Gore, and then I'll talk about the film's message: He's a hypocrite. During the Clinton administration, the causes of global warming were chugging right along with help from the government. Global warming didn't stop when the first Bush left the White House and start up again when the second Bush stole the place back for the Republicans. Gore himself gave the Tellico Dam project a waiver from the Endangered Species Act. George W. Bush might be a nightmare for the EPA, but the Democrats weren't their wet dream by a long shot.

OK. This has WHAT to do with the movie?

http://movies.go.com/movies/review?name=inconvenient-truth_2006&genre=documentary&studio=Paramount%20Classics

BUT you can leave your OWN response...

http://movies.go.com/readerreviews/movie?name=inconvenient-truth_2006&genre=documentary&studio=Paramount%20Classics
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eShirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 08:08 AM
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1. Hmmm... now I'm trying to figure out what the Endangered Species Act
is supposed to have to do with global warming. Or how a dam project might have increased global warming.
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Shadowen Donating Member (742 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 11:51 AM
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2. For movie reviews...
I like the Flick Filosopher. She's usually got her head on straight, and in her own words is a member of the liberal media.
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question everything Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 12:26 PM
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3. From the WSJ
Davis Guggenheim's documentary is framed as a teaching film with motivational, even inspirational overtones; it's an expansion, with elegant visual aids, of the lecture Mr. Gore has given more than a thousand times all over the world. The film succeeds powerfully, even though it's short on practical solutions, makes some questionable statements of fact and, given Gore's current ambiguous position in public life, requires a tighter focus on the message than on the messenger.

The greatest value of "An Inconvenient Truth" is the cumulative force of its graphic images (glaciers melting, ice caps shrinking, myriad species in retreat from rising temperatures) and the gravity of its projections -- whole civilizations beset by changes of a biblical scale in the all-too-foreseeable future. Though many voices in government and industry continue to question the causal link between carbon dioxide emissions and rising temperatures, the film insists that the basic facts are no longer in dispute, and casts the call to action as less of a political issue than a moral one. Allowing catastrophe to overtake the world inherited by our children, Gore says, is "deeply unethical."






http://online.wsj.com/article/SB114860010578363675.html?mod=weekend_journal_secondary_hs

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