Governor Jeb Bush Says He'll Pass on Al Gore's Movie

Gov. Jeb Bush met with scientists last week to discuss the role of global warming on worsening hurricane activity. He remained moot on the controversial topic, but said he was intrigued and suggested Florida should host a "forum where there's airing out of these ideas."

That led a reporter to ask Bush if he planned on seeing former Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore's movie on global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth." "No, I'm not going to be doing that," he said, before offering a thumbnail review of "X-Men: The Last Stand," which he called "excellent."

Bush then noted that Gore's movie had about $500,000 in ticket sales compared to more than $130 million for X-Men. "So I was in the majority of opinion, apparently, on that," he said, before quickly adding, "in terms of entertainment. I respect Vice President Gore's advocacy. I think he's very sincere and I don't want to joke about that."

Bush, a devout Catholic, was then asked his opinion of "The Da Vinci Code," a movie that has drawn some rebukes of heresy from Catholics. "I liked the book a lot better. The movie was disappointing," he said.

He then hinted that he was finally ready to end ceaseless media speculation about his career after he leaves office in January due to term limits. "Movie critic. That's what I'm going to do," he said.