The B&B Presents: Ecological Apocalypse
After a somewhat tenuous run these days Brendan – and a reluctant BJ - have decided to try to give Sunday night movies another chance. Also, for the first time, members of my department have been invited. We hope too have a good turnout, because tonight we are showing the thrills and chills of climate change. In a double bill that starts off serious and later turns a bit wackier.7:00 pm
An Inconvenient Truth (2006) USA
The immensely powerful and honest and from all accounts accurate portrayal of climate shift made yet to date. The fact that it focuses on - Inventor of the Environment and First Emperor of the Moon - Al Gore should not be something that scares you off…
This portrayal is way more charismatic than any of the spin on him as former vice president and former next president of the United States from years past. Do not also be run off due to the fact that it is a movie about a power point presentation… Think of it more as a well-edited concert movie with more engaging action going on than environmental groupies and guitar solos.
9:00 pm
Slipstream (1989) UK
Mark Hamil’s first foray back onto the silver screen since the Star Wars franchise is as a badie villain cop in the future, trying to recapture his prisoner from a bounty hunter who intends to get the bounty for himself. This all likely mediocre story unfolds on a planet Earth devastated by human generated pollution, floods and ravaging winds known as “the Slipstream”, and where humans are left only as small pockets living in canyons and where kites that pick up on these high powered storms are the most reliable form of transportation.
It was a hard decision of what to add as the second half of the double bill, two other top contenders were, and, if Slipstream is terrible without any B-movie hilarity, still are:
Gojira tai Hedorâ AKA "Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster" (1971) Japan
The Day After Tomorrow (2004) USA
posted by B-Town @ 10:19 p.m.
2 Comments:
I'm not sure how Mr. Gore's movie managed to make it to my little corner of the world for exactly one week this summer, but I'm glad I took the chance to see it .. I never thought I'd call him charming, but he certainly is in this flick that's as entertaining as it is thoroughly terrifying
The "Charm" and "Humility" is one of the necessary elements that I have been trying to capture when talking about human induced climate change. I have found that those who speak from a "you're wrong, and I know better", platform get the door closed on them, by those who often are wrong. The tragedy that is the end of debate - the action that can change strongly fixed minds - happens because people's emotions (base or not) which come from real places haven't been acknowledged. What has given me the esteem for Gore comes from his ability to connect with those basic motivations.
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