Dismal ratings for DiCaprio's Global Warming Epic 'Before the Flood' – beaten by 'Bubble Guppies'

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The weekend ratings are out, and they aren’t good news for Leonardo DiCaprio’s Global Warming Epic ‘Before the Flood‘, which we reviewed yesterday on WUWT. Showbuzz Daily has listed the top 150 TV and Cable programs for the weekend, and in ‘the hottest year ever’, discussing the ‘most important topic ever’, Before the Flood came in at #61 for the weekend.

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Ironically, the kids show “Bubble Guppies” beat it at #53. Ouch.

Perhaps this snoozer didn’t do so well because of the stellar cast of characters?

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I mean, who wouldn’t want to tune in and have a jet-setting actor-millionaire, a government handout beneficiary, a Pope, the globe-trotting Secretary of State, the lame-duck president, the ‘Horndog-in-Chief” and the leader of the U.N. come on for 96 minutes and berate you for doing things like driving your car, eating hamburgers, and just not caring enough about the planet like they do while looking down on us from their private planes?

This review on IMDB, says it all:

Al Gore says it’s so and therefore it is?

30 October 2016 | by pete-801-834182 (United States) – See all my reviews
Basically DeCaprio was told by Al Gore (who has made a hundred millions of dollars by preaching global warming after he retired from political life, gained a bunch of weight and had nothing to do) that anthropological global warming is real, and from that point onward DeCaprio was convinced. LOL! Then DeCaprio presents the ole “97% of scientists” lie that has traveled around the world. In reality 66% of scientists have no opinion about AGW — Those opinions were conveniently thrown out of the messaged John Cook study. Then DeCaprio presents cherry picked anecdotal evidence, without ever questioning whether it’s a case of Texas Sharpshooting. Why didn’t he present the Vostok Station / Greenland ice core data to put the last 100 years IN PERSPECTIVE versus the last 5,000 years, 11,000 years and 420,000 years? And if he’s such a big fan of anecdotal evidence over temperature data then why didn’t he mention that Greenland used to be green? That 20,000 years ago New York was covered by a mile thick glacier? Why didn’t DeCaprio interview Patrick Moore, the co-founder of Greenpeace, who is not part of “Big Oil” and doesn’t buy into AGW? Because DeCaprio suffers from confirmation bias. The rest of this propaganda piece (I mean movie) continues under the ASSUMPTION that humans are causing the planet to warm and we all need to agree to tax ourselves more. No thanks.
Here’s the trailer, you can count how many times smokestacks (venting steam), gas flaring, and other images of petro-doom are presented.

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Joe E in the IE
November 1, 2016 3:44 pm

The message rings hollow when it’s delivered by a bunch of self-righteous hypocrites who shamelessly kicks Mother Earth in the face with a bigger carbon footprint than anyone reading this.

George
Reply to  Joe E in the IE
November 2, 2016 3:56 am

In one day their use of gas guzzling jets and cars is more than everyone reading this combined!!

Big Bear
November 1, 2016 3:44 pm

Surprised it did so well. I guess there are lots of people who like being scolded by millionaires.

Sulaco
November 1, 2016 3:45 pm

California tax rate added to the Federal tax rate is near 55% of income. The government wants another 6% for “green” projects. Same in WA state where a “Tax the C02 producers to death” tax is on the ballot. It will never end until we end the criminal governments first…

Gamecock
Reply to  Sulaco
November 2, 2016 3:27 am

The decadence is mind numbing. CO2 producers keep them alive.

MarkW
Reply to  Sulaco
November 2, 2016 10:42 am

A lot of socialists are talking about kicking the federal rate up to 90%.

Dennis Gaskill
November 1, 2016 3:46 pm

Another Actor ……… acting like he is a scientist , unfortunately too stupid to know how Dumb he is !

Joe E in the IE
November 1, 2016 3:47 pm

“Perhaps this snoozer didn’t do so well because of the stellar cast of characters?”
If they all cared, they’d show the rest of us how to observe Air Hour. It’s like Earth Hour but instead of turning off the lights, you give up breathing for just one hour.
Please, Lenny! Please, Mr. President! Show us hot it’s done!
The world will be a much better place if you do.

Cold in Wisconsin
Reply to  Joe E in the IE
November 1, 2016 9:43 pm

Reduces carbon dioxide emissions too!

dustyrhodesax2
November 1, 2016 3:50 pm

I’m sure everyone flew to the various filming locations in their private jets.

stpaulchuck
November 1, 2016 3:53 pm

“A fool and his money are soon parted.” Scam artists like Manbearpig always wind up roping people like DiCrapio into financing their perpetual motion machines and “the next big hit movie”. Of course it helps if they are also tone deaf hypocrites as well.

zombietimeshare
November 1, 2016 3:58 pm

Said DiCaprio on this news, “I’m willing to fly on however many private jets and take however many limos necessary to promote this film. “

McCoy
November 1, 2016 4:15 pm

He flies on a private jet and enjoys huge yachts. Get over yourself.

November 1, 2016 4:19 pm

Yes there is and always will be changes to the climate. It has been this way from day one. The ones screaming bout it now want to use it as a fear factor toward power and control over all of us. they will use the money we will be taxed to build bigger businesses for then selves and leave us in the dirt. they are all a bunch of thieves and need to be put away in a safe ;place for a very long tine

November 1, 2016 4:24 pm

This whole “actor” thing reminds me of high school, where guys would do anything to get in bed with the best looking chick in school …….. even if she was as dumb as a post. Of course, as we age a few years and realize that that narcissistic dumbo had reached the apex of her emotional, spiritual and intellectual development, all of a sudden, everyone sees her as damaged goods. Such is the case with Leonardo, George Clooney, and the rest of those brain-dead Hollywood liberals.
Worse yet, these clowns have NO IDEA that the old Communist Party merely renamed itself the liberal,progressive socialist party. At least the new name sounds warm and fuzzy and they like warm and fuzzy; it reminds them of those days in front of the TV watching Barney the Purple Dinosaur.
DUMB as a bag of hammers. (Especially George Clooney, they don’t make idiots like him every day.)

Winston Bela
November 1, 2016 4:30 pm

Imagine lecturing the world on climate when DiCaprio is a high school dropout. Full disclaimer: DiCaprio did later manage to get a GED.

DennyOR
November 1, 2016 4:40 pm

Doesn’t DeCaprio realize that we’re already being bombarded with more than enough climate change alarmism. Why in the world does he believe we’re in need of more of the same. He must be totally out of touch with reality.

SerfCityHereWeCome
November 1, 2016 4:43 pm

Well, to quote Leo himself when Cal planted the Heart of the Ocean on him in Titanic, “This is horses#!t!”

Kevmeistah
November 1, 2016 4:43 pm

DiCrapio is an idiot. I haven’t liked him ever since that documentary of his childhood, ‘What’s Eating Gilbert Grape’.

arthur4563
November 1, 2016 4:50 pm

Can you imagine a debate between DeCaprio, of Hollywood IQ, and a knowledgeable skeptic?
We can tell by his transparent ignorance that DeCaprio never set foot inside a science classroom.

JackBootedThug
November 1, 2016 5:12 pm

How anyone can give credence to this putz is beyond me. Jetting all over the globe, traveling across town by limo, chartering super yachts to party with women that would normally not give him the time of day if he weren’t an actor with money, all the while giving us mere mortals the old “do as I say, not as I do” spiel about our bogus “carbon footprints”…hypocrite much?

Sam Wasserman
November 1, 2016 5:17 pm

Decrapio is a terrific actor but I’m glad most of you realize he is not a Rhodes scholar, the global warming pushers don’t even believe it, they just see it as a boondoggle to swindle more money from US taxpayers, sad for the taxpayers, sad for the intellectually bankrupt that buy into this nonsense

Velocitor
November 1, 2016 5:19 pm

To be fair, this has been an amazing season for Bubble Guppies.

November 1, 2016 5:19 pm

Better yet, 90 minutes and not one mention of Photosynthesis.. Shows how dumb they think we are.

November 1, 2016 5:23 pm

Who the heck could watch such nonsense?

November 1, 2016 5:28 pm

could it be because its bulls##t?

GC7
November 1, 2016 5:28 pm

I understand they were going to call the movie Sominex or Ambient but those names were already taken.
No such thing as “man-made” global warming.
There is absolutely nothing man can do to affect the climate of the entire planet….you know, cause it’s a planet.
https://youtu.be/BB0aFPXr4n4 – for a brilliant and funny take on environmentalism by the great George Carlin.

Heywood Jablome
November 1, 2016 5:38 pm

Obscurity richly deserved.
People are sick of being told how to conduct their lives by supercilious snobs who heed none of their own dicta.
Obama has a pet dog flown to a vacation spot on a 747 as he lectured on carbon footprints.
Leo earns Chief Hypocrite award. Flies to an environmental confab aboard a gas guzzling private plane.
Etc., etc., etc.

Ray Davies
November 1, 2016 5:43 pm

Thanks famous actors