An Inconvenient Truth opens in Los Angeles and New York today. (I think.) Eli Pariser's www.moveon.org says "how it does on opening weekend will determine how the movie is received in the press and even how many other cities get to see it." He's right, and if you want to help pledge to see the film and urge your friends, etc.
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on May 24, 2006 at 10:14 AM
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Daniel Zelter says ...
I think they should wait a couple months, because X 3 and Superman Returns are going to steal the show. Anyway, I hate getting ripped off by the Arclight, even if it's for a good cause, so I'll wait 'til it plays at a better theater.
Posted by Daniel Zelter at May 24, 2006 12:08 PM
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Daniel Zelter says ...
Anyway, I don't need to see the movie after living in L.A. for the last few years. I know for a fact it's getting hotter here. There was a particularlyunusual hot day sometime between February and March, and my boss was joking about it being July.
Posted by Daniel Zelter at May 24, 2006 3:48 PM
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Chris says ...
Why do I have to "pledge" to see a movie? Is this binding? Can I pledge to see it, and then decide it's the worst kind of junk science drivel and not see it without incurring some kind of penalty? Can I see the film and NOT see the movie? If 20 million people pledge to see it but it only makes a few hundred thousand dollars, do the pledges count for something?
I think there's a lot of rational people like me who are kind of creeped out by MoveOn and their ilk. It's all kind of Stalinesque. Weird.
Needless to say, I won't be making any special efforts to see this movie. Maybe when it's out on Netflix. Probably not though.
Posted by Chris at May 24, 2006 6:20 PM
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Daniel Zelter says ...
Intelligent design is junk science. Global warming is real. No one believed nuclear power was a danger until Chernobyl, either. Do we really need to kill off half the arctic wildlife for us to realize this one, too? And why is MoveOn more threatening than PNAC?
Posted by Daniel Zelter at May 25, 2006 11:30 AM
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Don Mynack says ...
Note that Gregg Easterbrook destroys this film in Slate, and Easterbrook is a Global Warming believer.
http://www.slate.com/id/2142319
Posted by Don Mynack at May 25, 2006 1:51 PM
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Steve Rhodes says ...
Jack Shafer might not have destroyed Easterbrook
in Slate, but he certainly did some damage
http://www.slate.com/id/2090091/
And FAIR took apart his environmental record
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1307
and another critique
http://loom.corante.com/archives/001156.html
The reason to get people to pledge to see a movie opening weekend is obvious. How widely the film expands and how much the studio puts into marketing it will be determined in the first few cities it opens in.
And it seems to be working. It made $79,000 in four theaters on a Wednesday.
http://www.climatecrisis.net/blog/?p=10
Moveon certainly has flaws, but the input members have both through online polls, discussions, and with their dollars is about as far from Stalinesque as you can get.
Posted by Steve Rhodes at May 25, 2006 3:10 PM