Tonight I saw the truth. (Al Gore's movie reviewed)

[Harper_is_Bush]

Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth released to wider audience today.
Friday, 16 June 2006

Tonight I saw the truth.

An Inconvenient Truth opened to a wider movie audience on June 16th. I just got back from the big screen, so here's the dish...

It presents the evidence of what's happening in stunning visual clarity. Factual, scientific evidence. Real scientific facts. Perhaps I'm overstating the factual, but it needs to be done. Many have been tricked to think global warming is a partisan issue or environmental alarmism by chicken littles. It's not, it's real and it's time to act - individually and collectively.

The most amazing evidence in the movie:

The levels of CO2 and temperatures are now measurable for the last 650,000 years from Arctic ice cores.
Looking at the 100 foot long graph reflected on a wall behind Gore you can see both CO2 and temperature go up and down throughout the 6500 centuries in unison. The two are obviously related, the pattern undeniable. You can see several ice ages, and the matching patterns of CO2 and temperature drop during those times. In the last 30-40 years the graph shows CO2 has risen higher than it has ever attained before. Much higher. It's rise is relentless and unprecedented, and the temperature is on the cusp..following right behind.

Scroll down to find link to movie website list of actions you can take..
http://allpoliticsnow.com/content/view/26/1

[orleans]

1. i saw it tonight also--with my daughter

good movie--everyone can learn something from this film (even if you're already into the topic)

i wish he had a bit more passion in his voice (remember that one speech he gave a couple years ago--he raised his voice--he was angry--there was such PASSION and urgency in that speech...even tho i can't remember what the speech was about now...)

i wanted a moment in the film like that--a moment where the audience is swept up in the moment and applauds. there wasn't one. the voice over was quiet and mundane.

(a line that bothered me was when he mentioned the 2000 election, and showing various clips of the election, supreme court, katherine harris, and al does a voice over saying something to the effect that he accepted the supreme court's decision. i shook my head and muttered: we didn't. why the hell did he say that?? my god! we STILL haven't accepted it. but he has. oh, that's nice to know.)

and with all the facts laid out in the film it's even more horrible that he accepted the supreme court's decision--how is acceptance possible knowing everything that this gop has been destroying (environmentally).

sorry. good film. wish he spoke more passionately--raised his voice a little once in awhile. (people around me were yawning) my 18 year old told me she really liked it and it held her attention. (and obviously i still can't get over 2000)

[gumby]

2. Here were the choices in 2000

Gore either had to "accept" the decision of the SCOTUS or he had to declare anarchy.

I would have been in the streets, but I truly believe Gore knew the score and decided NOT to throw this country into chaos. That's the kind of Patriot he is.

He has spoken out forcefully since then. But, I don't think he wanted to initiate a civil war. That was his choice. He sided with the Union.

[Bucky]

3. Oddly enough, I saw the movie with MY daughter tonight

I thought it was pretty clearly a campaign warm up film. When Gore hits the campaign trail--as he will--expect to see more missing passion. I'm not sure what it is with him, but he just never gets his dander up. That's okay, cause I don't particularly want a hothead for president.

That polar bear scene was more than enough emotion for me.

I thought he came across pretty calm, reflective, mature. He was probably going for apolitical, but he certainly wasn't that. Still, I think his line about accepting the Court's decision was presidential. A good man will always put the country first ahead of his own ambitions. He was right to phrase things the way he did 6 years ago. Doing it that way preserved his options. And a wise man always keeps his options open, too.

[orleans]

5. i know, i know, i know....(i just can't help feeling this way)

(and he DID get his dander up in some speech that was totally wonderful...if i think of it i'll let you know--it was absolutely great)

polar bears--

did you hear this (i heard it on cnn's air america news yesterday)
a couple snips:

"Polar bears in the southern Beaufort Sea may be turning to cannibalism because longer seasons without ice keep them from getting to their natural food, a new study by American and Canadian scientists has found. "

"Deborah Williams of Alaska Conservation Solutions, a group aimed at pursuing solutions for climate change, said the study represents the "bloody fingerprints" of global warming.

"This is not a Coca-Cola commercial," she said, referring to animated polar bears used in advertising for the soft drink giant. "This represents the brutal downside of global warming." "
http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/06/13/ap2811262.html

[Bucky]

7. Not that different from humans. Conservatives, deprived of a natural diet

of communists under their beds to be panicked about have turned to all sorts of strange replacement feeds in their radically altered environment.

[orleans]

9. the speech i'm thinking about might be the one gore gave

recently--january 16th--

this post has links to the audio

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x153319#153330

[Demit]

10. I saw Gore speak in person the Sunday before the election in 2000

and he had passion then. It's just that the persona the media colluded to attribute to him was too firmly planted in people's minds. That speech I saw contradicted all the negative things the media was feeding to us. Yes, you saw (a clip online perhaps?) his passion in that recent speech. And how did the Mighty Wurlitzer of conservative pundits characterize it? Al Gore is strangely angry, Al Gore must be off his meds. He seems unbalanced. What a wacko.

This is not Al Gore's fault. We were conditioned from the get not to accept Al Gore as he was. The deck was carefully stacked against him. I hope every pundit who pushed the idea that having a "wonky" guy as president was a bad thing finds themselves in a special circle of hell for delivering us the hell on earth that is George Bush. By the time it's all done, I suspect the majority of the country will have had the fleeting fantasy that if only we could go back eight years and do it again and this time get it right. Oh, what could have been!

It is such a shame for you to suggest that people's yawning in the movie theater is Al Gore's fault. It sounds like, even after 6 years of this debacle, you still yearn for an entertainer instead of an intelligent leader. That is exactly the mindset that the people driving this country off the cliff need you to have. It doesn't bode well for our future.

[longship]

4. Opened today in Ontario, California.

My wife, her best friend, and I went to the 7:30 showing at the AMC megaplex at Ontario Mills Mall. They have five showings a day from today until Thursday. There were about three dozen people in the theater for the showing we saw.

All were transfixed throughout. This is a very good flick. Gore's arguments are very good. His stock presentation is interleaved with personal glimpses of his life, focussing on the influences which make his appeal on global warming to be so important to him.

My wife was concerned about the movie being a "bring down", but commented after the fact that it was quite uplifting. I had more faith in Al than she.

If you haven't seen "An Inconvenient Truth" you need to see it. It is that good. This is very compelling stuff and it gives people a look at Al that you've likely not seen before.

Go see it as soon as it comes to your area. You will *not* regret it.

[Liberty Belle]

6. I saw it in San Diego. The house was packed and gave a standing ovation.

Later I talked to a Congressional candidate, who said "Al Gore has become quite a statesman."

It's true, the man has traveled the globe as a self-appointed diplomat speaking out against global warming -- and he has a far more presidential semblance than the resident-in-thief.

I sure hope Gore will run again! After all, he won before--and just think how many more voters are fed up with Bush and ready to vote Democratic. Plus Gore has improved his speaking skills and seemed quite personable in this film. He's as close to a slam-dunk as Democrats can muster up.

[Harper_is_Bush]

12. I hope he doesn't, at least not in '08.

His work with Global Warming is more important.

[struggle4progress]

8. An excellent movie -- Gore says what needs to be said and says it well

[Lisa]

11. he comes across as very approachable and human ...

Film was well-received when it opened yesterday in my Canadian city. It was interesting to see a clip of Bush on the news, after I got home that night -- he seemed stiff, phony, and unconvincing next to Gore's passion for the issues.

And I agree with what an earlier poster commented -- for all the frightening stuff in the film, it does NOT come across as a downer. Gore's effort to show that we can do something about this (just as we did about the ozone layer) is not in vain.

Biggest laugh from our audience -- when Gore is pretending to decide between the gold bars and our planet. (I nearly jumped up and yelled something about Robert Constanza's work on ecosystem valuation ... that just a few of the basic ecosystem services, like photosynthesis and clean water, would use up the entire global GNP each year if we had to pay for them.) Second-biggest laugh was when he matter-of-factly pointed out the place where he'd totalled the family car, when he was much younger.

[Cookie wookie]

13. I saw it last week in Atlanta

I dreaded going, but did it because I wanted to support him and the film. I though it would be really a downer -- just another awful truth to pile on top of all the other awful truths we're having to live with now. Yet although the facts presented have been clearly on my mind since seeing it (I might even go so far to say they've haunted me), I left the theater feeling uplifted. Hearing the truth is amazing to begin with in this lying society we live in, yet Gore seemed to think we can still turn this thing around. He comments on how much thought he began to put into HOW to deliver the message so that people would get it. That work shows in this film.

[Harper_is_Bush]

14. kttt. Go see this movie and take as many people with you as you can. n/t