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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Mikeyj
November 2, 2016 6:45 am

A true believer would kill himself to save the planet.

Susan
November 2, 2016 6:52 am

LEO is a two-faced hypocrite who is the epitome of “do ad I say not as I do” jerk. His carbon footprint is bigger than my entire family lineage.

SerfCityHereWeCome
November 2, 2016 7:11 am

Attention all climate deniers: We here at the Ministry of Truth have determined that we have fallen out of orbit and are spiraling in closer to the sun, meaning that all of your children will be charbroiled to extra-crispy cinders within days. All hope is not lost, however. Your generous donation of your entire net worth, liquidated into cartons of small, unmarked bills please, will allow us to employ millions of of forward-thinking progressives to face the sun and blow really hard in unison to push us back away from it. Please drop off your generous Earth-saving donations at your nearest DNC campaign headquarters. Allah, er, Gaia bless you.

Bill
November 2, 2016 7:24 am

The arrogance of all of these players, backed by their own globalist agenda is a turnoff from the beginning. I have no interest in being “gas lighted” by these crooks.

carl samuelson
November 2, 2016 7:31 am

next time make it a cartoon
1-6 month has a captive audience
keystone cops as environmentalist
show barney and big bird suffocating from pollution
caprio will die asking people do you remember me i was once a somebody star

Fed Up
November 2, 2016 8:02 am

Hmmmm, who was the director again, Lani Reifenstahl?

BallBounces
November 2, 2016 8:04 am

This is entirely understandable. It’s a well-known fact of the scientific variety that bubble guppies have a much smaller carbon footprint than DiCaprios. Warmists are voting with their feet, er, eyeballs.

November 2, 2016 8:13 am

Leo you need to stick to movies.

netset
Reply to  Warren Rose
November 2, 2016 12:20 pm

You should buy some condoms and don’t procreate

networth
November 2, 2016 8:15 am

Quite frankly, I’m surprised it pulled .15. The trailers for the show were over-the-top ridiculous. Even a person who was otherwise inclined to believe it man-made global warming would recognize it was nothing but hype. Chicken little exists in every generation. It used to be global cooling. It used to be acid rain. It used to the ozone hole. Now it’s global warming. Once global warming fades from consciousness some new looming environmental catastrophe will take it’s place and some pampered, aloof celebrity will take up it’s cause. You can count on it.

Hillary for Prison!
Reply to  networth
November 2, 2016 3:28 pm

The Next scaremongering trend will be Global Flooding.

rfriverrat
November 2, 2016 8:22 am

Since mankind is responsible for global warming (per DiCaprio, Gore, etc.) Isn’t the solution to simply kill off the human race?
Maybe they should solicit ISIS to help them.

November 2, 2016 8:25 am

MGW is no longer on anyone’s list of important things to worry about – why you say? How about there is no PROOF of it and all past methods to PROVE it turned out to be fraudulent. I think they’ve even given up on this topic in high school science classes as the teachers were being laughed out of the room. So what IS going on out there you ask? 1) no rising seas 2) more polar bears than ever 3) highest levels of Artic ice in decades 4) sun cycle moving toward solar minimum in three or four more years 5) ouster of left wing fanatics around the globe and 6) a return of common sense. Do not think for a moment however these preening “scientists” will slow down their efforts to hog the stage and pretend someone cares about them.

AGW is not Science
November 2, 2016 8:25 am

Leonardo DiCaprio is such an a–hole that I won’t even watch his regular movies any more, much less this crap.

Reply to  AGW is not Science
November 2, 2016 8:29 am

A bunch of whores and prostitutes telling us how to live? That’s not much of a life.

November 2, 2016 8:27 am

SpongeBob is the best thing on TV. He’s not a creepy Grifter trying to rip everyone off. That would be Mr. Crabs.

Henryttt
November 2, 2016 8:42 am

Seems appropriate since the dayum earth is NOT warming !!!! The progressives tried the same crap in the 1970’s except it was “Global Cooling and the Coming Mini Ice Age” Research it for yourself !!!!!!!!!!!!

TonyG
November 2, 2016 8:44 am

Leonardo . . . . . It is time you stick with something you know . . . . . . ahhhhhh! I’m having trouble figuring that out too! Sorry!

November 2, 2016 9:28 am

I think some of you are forgetting how restricted the internet and public information are in places like China.

Heath Williams
November 2, 2016 10:03 am

This is why we got rid of our Nat Geo subscription. Page after page of bullshit.

Mitch Rapp
November 2, 2016 10:10 am

Leo’s movie would have done better if it had been marketed as children’s fiction instead of a documentary.

ilovevictoriasbows
November 2, 2016 10:33 am

From Phil Jones To: Michael Mann (Pennsylvania State University).
“I can’t see any of these shows being in the next report. Kevin and I will keep them out somehow — even if we have to redefine how weekend ratings are calculated!”

Cosmin
November 2, 2016 10:46 am

Climate change is real. You have no idea what you are talking about. Let me tell you something, don’t take into consideration all the scientific FACTS that prove global warming IS real, just get out of the house and take a look. The temperatures in the summer are huge, in the winter I can barely see some snow now..in our country we used to have huge snow falls every winter..now it barely snows at all. And that’s not happening from last year. It’s been like that for the last 10 years…are you really that blind??

Casey
November 2, 2016 11:31 am

I see a lot of the film’s makers must have voted it up – 8.5 out of 10??

November 2, 2016 11:32 am

I liked it I thought Leo did a great job he was humble and he didn’t come across as a know it all and I felt his conviction is true. Good job Leo you have my vote.

Ima
November 2, 2016 11:38 am

Leo DiCopralite belongs on Shutter Island as a patient.

November 2, 2016 11:52 am

Leo took it in the butt in Eclipse. Now he wants to do the same to us. If you want ratings try dumping Obama out of the picture.

Common sense
November 2, 2016 12:01 pm

This article is a fail and obviously biased.
Already 6 million views on YouTube and even more on Facebook.
The lack of ratings on cable tv has no bearing on the content and truth of the actually documentary.
[from the TV ratings standpoint though, the movie is a fail and obviously biased, which is the point of the article -mod]