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Green Movie in the Red
Story submitted by Kevin D Knoebel
The movie is The Green Inferno. NYC student activists travel to Amazon to save the rainforest, meet natives. Hilarity ensues.
It was suddenly pulled from the release schedule, and was supposed to be out September 5th. It’s said the financing company doesn’t have the money for the release:
Bloody Disgusting writes:
Deadline is reporting that Green Inferno, the Roth-directed film about student activists who travel from Gotham to save the Amazon rainforest only to be pursued by a cannibal tribe, has been taken off Open Road’s release calendar. The film was scheduled for wide release on September 5. We’ve been supporting the film heavily here on the site after we posted this positive review last September.
They write that this happened because financier Worldview Entertainment is balking at ex-CEO Christopher Woodrow’s commitment to provide the P&A.
This is a very important movie to showcase the joys of being a student activist who has traveled to underdeveloped countries to help indigenous people combat the effects of climate change and greedy multinational corporations.
I suggest we should petition the distributor to hold a Kickstarter to fund the release. As the incentive gift for donors, I propose an e-booklet (to save the trees) filled with info for combating the real myths about climate change.
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At least they are trying to portray the message of global warming in a tasteful way….
Sounds like a South Park episode. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x75Dd9N65N0
Gives another meaning to the phrase, “He gave her the finger.”
Is it cannabis, or cannibals ??
Thanks, Kevin D Knoebel. This is a good post, thought-provoking, as proven by the comments it has gotten. I like science-fiction.
And thanks, Gentle Tramp. Michael Crichton’s “State of Fear” was his most important book, I think. It has a lot of Web references that challenged the consensus before it was even born.
The reasons why it was not made into a movie are obvious to me.
rogerknights, anything opposing the consensus, even science-fiction, should be given a voice.
should NOT be given a voice. I should have written.
u.k.(us) said on August 10, 2014 at 7:52 pm:
Both. Smoked long pig, special recipe, has medicinal properties.
See, there will be no food shortages among the indigenous peoples even with climate change.
Now if only there would be a sequel:
To Serve Mann.
Science Officer 7:20 pm
Now that was really funny!!!!!
I think the “green” in the title might be making people draw mistaken conclusions about this film’s subject matter. Eli Roth is all about gore, but not necessarily THAT Gore. I doubt there’s much in terms of politics or statements about environmentalism in the movie. Just a bunch of kids getting hacked up and eaten, would be my guess.
Silly cannibals! Haven’t they heard of ‘food miles’?
I saw the trailer, and it seemed pretty funny. I really enjoyed the Blair Witch Project, not for the story so much, but for the audience reaction. The theater was filled with 20 year-olds and they really were scared. Still just kids after all, just a little older. So same deal here. Kids think they’re all grown up and in charge. Going to save the world. And get eaten instead. If only they knew that’s pretty much what will happen to them living under socialism. The process will just be slower and the pain will go on and on – at least until the life is finally sucked out of them.
I knew a guy from Burma who claimed he was a Scot by absorption.
Claimed his grandfather had eaten a Scottish missionary.
Look, I’ll kick in a few bucks to save the epic – just as long as we can send the natives a few bottles of Chianti and some Fava beans.
Pointman
I’m so confused… IMDB says that this ‘film’ was released last year. There are reviews and everything.
At 6:54 AM on 11 August, LeeHarvey writes:
The impression I’ve gotten is that it had been made available for viewing on the small-audience artsy-fartsy circuit, internationally and in the “Blue” (predominantly leftard “Liberal” fascist) metropolitan areas of these United States, but that the corporate officers with the authority to put it into the suburban multiplexes are balking at according The Green Inferno the sort of advertising and promotion (A&P) budget that would make theater owners willing to give it a screen that might otherwise be gathering popcorn-consumers by way of a more commercially viable offering.
The people who effectively own this film seem to have read the broad market potential – reviewers’ ratings notwithstanding – and think that it’s simply not going to earn back the A&P costs needed to get it into wide release, and they’re probably right.
Perhaps they went to save the rainforest from being destroyed by multinational corporations who were clearing huge swathes to plant palm oil crops to meet the EU’s biofuel targets. Now that’s a theme I could get behind.
Two guys are sitting in a cannibal stew pot, and the fire’s been lit. Suddenly one yells, “Oh my god, it’s already boiling – see the bubbles? The other one says, “No, that was me”.
Rename film to “Infernal Greens.”
The ratings on IMDB aren’t that bad — I’ve seen major theatrical releases with worse. It appears to be a shock/gore film and the environmental activism of the protagonists/victims is just a means to get a bunch of college students in conflict with cannibals.
So this has all the prerequisites to be officially a CULT Classic.
On his way to the river, a cannibal passed a green activist in the woods…
rip
Pamela Gray says:
So if she was pursued by cannibals did she get eaten? Or at least gnawed on? Which begs the question, was she advocating that the tribes turn to a vegetarian diet to save the rainforests? And was her inclusion on the menu a sort of tit for tat? Inquiring minds want to know.
+++++++++++
Pamela, your comment is filled with naughty bits. It is like looking at a 30 pound stuffed turkey – I just don’t know where to start.
Didn’t Little Red Riding Hood (a suggestive name if ever there was one) get chased through the Amazon by a Big Bad Wolf intending to satiate his hunger(s)? Its a classic. Having despatched the chaperone he waited for her in drag, ultimately giving her no more than a couple of lame pick-up lines. Wolfie met with no success and capital consequences.
Speaking of (missing) capital, I don’t think ‘Green Inferno’ can top that plot. I am going to give it a miss. They should at least have changed the locale.
It’s rare that cannibals get to eat imported food. They were so looking forward to tasting some Chuck roast, and some surfer and turfier – baby back ribs, and muscles. Then for dessert, a few Ladyfingers. Scrapple seemed like a wonderful dish but it was discovered the global warming activists had no brains. Alas, back at the village, the poor disappointed cannibals had to settle for eating their dates.
An informed cannibal would recommend you start with the Pope’s nose.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_is_turkey_tail_called_pope%27s_nose&src=ansTT
@HankH
I will file that under the tab, “Things I didn’t really need to know but might pull out my back pocket at a party.”
Pamela, I forgot to directly compliment your wit. Thanks.
The late, great, big game hunter Peter T Forbes promised to one day write a book called, “A History of Swaziland: Who’s Eaten Whom.” There are still those who take a nibble now and then, apparently.
“….salty, like leopard.” – Idi Amin