This E!-looking film review struck me as a bit strange. None of these movies is even in the theatres any more. The reviewers are mixing apples with oranges (docs with fiction) and only discussing films that either did poorly or are from ages ago. “The 11th Hour” tanked, making less than a million domestically. “Sunshine” also tanked ($3.5 million at the box office with a $40 million production budget), and wasn’t even about global warming except in the most oblique way. “An Inconvenient Truth” came out last year and “The Day After Tomorrow” is from 3 years ago. That’s not much of a cinematic movement, if you ask me.

Global warming is the largest threat facing the planet. If this insipid review is what passes for coverage (complete with cringe worthy solar panel banter at the end), then we are all doomed.

One of the selling points of "11th hour" was supposedly that it shows us we have a chance to do something. This was supposed to make it more appealing that the "doom & gloom" outlook of Gore's movie as I understand it.

Frankly, people (at least in America) don't do something when they hear "Oh, we have a chance and some time". We're a people that turns in our papers just as the professor is taking off for vacation, who pay our bills late & try to sneak out of having to deal with late charges, who see the light turning red and figure we can still make it.

We are not a people who believe in preemptive on the things for which it's appropriate (no, don't even bring up that comparison). Obviously there are exceptions, but they/we are far from the majority. Most people like looking at my green activities & think "good, now I don't have to".

I was also equally annoyed by solar panel riff at the end. And yeah, "11th hour" and "Sunshine" weren't very good. IMHO the former pandered too much to the general uninterested population, who *do* need to be shaken up & scared a bit. Leo, however good his intentions, also didn't work for me, and the movie was too extreme is it's initial we're-all-going-to-die juxtaposed with the closing we'll-all-be-okay.

Sunshine had an interesting first third, so-so middle third, and abysmal last third. It might be an environmental movie, but if anything caters against global warming in a frankly kind of dumb way. Godzilla made more allegorical sense than Sunshine.

On the positive side, though, I think the point to the piece was we're more worried not about each other so much but rather out impact on the world & how it will impact us back. This kind of trend is one that would stretch over years, so older films, plus those with varying levels of success, are legitimate references.

Talking about old movies and docs with nothing new to say. Why?

Their point seems to be "it used to be fiction that scared you, but now its documentaries!" Just another genre of scary films!

This framing effectively dismisses that actual message of those documentaries, which is.... that the world is ACTUALLY ending unless we take severe and potentially painful actions. Not ending like in the movies but like, here on planet Earth, right f**king now.

Their clueless movie review guy glibness is just astonishing.

Yeah, go ahead guys, put up those solar panels and keep watching the movies. But if you think that's all you need to do, you are thinking pretty shallow.