Highly recommend "An Inconvenient Truth" - Political Forum

Sebelius for VP, not Hillary · 02-18-2007, 08:46 AM

Hey guys,

So I finished watching an Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore's video on global warming. I am recommending it to everyone I know and to all of the classes I teach. This is a rare exception I am making, as I generally never recommend anything to those classes. However, you really need to see the video to understand how severe this problem is.

I really think that we are bringing great ruin upon ourselves by not doing enough to fight global warming. I highly advise you all to check out the DVD or video for yourselves.

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emptypepsi · 02-26-2007, 06:07 PM

I'm pretty uneducated on this topic, to say the least. I'll look into the movie pretty soon. I'm trying to find good sources about both sides of the issue.

Daewoo · 02-26-2007, 07:20 PM

I thought it was pretty good (caught it on PPV).

I think he could have spent a little more time discussing and rebutting the arguments against global warming, but other than that I thought it was an excellent movie.

The part where he is standing in front of the big chart talking about greenhouse gasses and average temperatures and then he steps onto the platform and goes up, then up some more, was, IMO, a particularly effective visual aid. I am still not completely sold on the idea that we can stop global warming, but the image of al gore on a man lift way up there at the top of that chart pops into my mind everytime I think about the issue.

Sebelius for VP, not Hillary · 02-26-2007, 08:18 PM

Well, I didn't feel that this personal background was inappropriate. I think he was trying to show his connection to the good earth. He was speaking from the point of view of the common man, or at least trying to.

rakkasan · 02-26-2007, 08:53 PM

********totally watched it objectivley*********

bored the shit out of me.....it is an important subject dont think al gore should be its spokesman .....he is boring period

Fox · 02-26-2007, 09:26 PM

I absolutely hated the movie. I had to stop it 40 minutes through because I just couldn't take it any more. The only decent part in it was the semi-humourous clip from Futurama.

Gore said nothing I was not already aware of--indeed, a lot of what he said I would be willing to classify as "common knowledge" and it seemed that MOST of the movie was spent with him lamenting (read: whining) on his loss to Bush in 2000. Nearly half of what I saw was spent on the 2000 election; it had no bearing to the theme of the movie, and really drove-home the point that Gore's target audience was not the "American Citizen" but rather the card-carrying Democrat--his fans, so to speak.

More than a call to action, I think the movie was more of a bid for attention.

Sebelius for VP, not Hillary · 02-26-2007, 09:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Fox

I absolutely hated the movie. I had to stop it 40 minutes through because I just couldn't take it any more. The only decent part in it was the semi-humourous clip from Futurama.

Gore said nothing I was not already aware of--indeed, a lot of what he said I would be willing to classify as "common knowledge" and it seemed that MOST of the movie was spent with him lamenting (read: whining) on his loss to Bush in 2000. Nearly half of what I saw was spent on the 2000 election; it had no bearing to the theme of the movie, and really drove-home the point that Gore's target audience was not the "American Citizen" but rather the card-carrying Democrat--his fans, so to speak.

More than a call to action, I think the movie was more of a bid for attention.

Wow, I don't think we were watching the same movie.

There was like a 30 second segment in there that talked about the 2000 election, and a few times where he criticized Bush but you say that half of it was about that election.....Also, ask yourself this: how awkward would the movie have been had he NOT mentioned the 2000 election at all? That would be like Julian Bond not mentioning African-American politics or African-American history, or Gingrich not mentioning big government, or Jerry Falwell not mentioning religion.

The 2000 election defined Gore. It would have been really weird had he NOT mentioned it.

I don't agree it at all the that movie was a bid for attention. I teach a few classes and a lot of the students I spoke to from different schools told me that their classes had all gone out to the theater to see the movie. The movie is being distributed to ALL schools in the United Kingdom. I don't think people would distribute it so much if it was just much ado about nothing.

Sebelius for VP, not Hillary · 02-26-2007, 09:40 PM

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Originally Posted by rakkasan

********totally watched it objectivley*********

bored the shit out of me.....it is an important subject dont think al gore should be its spokesman .....he is boring period

Would it have been more exciting if McCain did it? Giulilani? Obama? It would have been the same thing. I don't see any other politician doing a better job on delivery than Gore.

Fox · 02-27-2007, 12:32 AM

My 1/2 thing was more my impression of what I saw, rather than me sitting there and timing it out. He came back to the election on several occasions. It was just too much for me.

The 2000 election may have been a big event for AL GORE, but it wasn't a big event for global warming. I was expecting a movie about global warming... it wasn't what I got.

Sebelius for VP, not Hillary · 02-27-2007, 01:09 AM

You paid for a movie about global warming and that is exactly what you got. The 2000 election was mentioned about two times, that I recall for a total of less than a minute for all references to that election. You may not have liked the film, but if you think it was about the 2000 election then I guess you only saw like 5 minutes of the film. It would be like saying that The Matrix was a film about Pepsi, because there was one scene where a Pepsi can was visible for 20 seconds.

Again, I don't see why this film would be standard issue in UK schools (and very much so in American schools), if it was a film about the political ambition of Al Gore, as you claim.