By: Duncan Smith
The Rotten Tomatoes (RT) reviews are in for Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power movie. According to RT, the movie is listed as a “Documentary” but as reviewers pointed out;
Truth to Power doesn’t want to drown viewers in data, but more fact-finding would have helped the movie’s purported message of progress and hope” – Gary Thompson
Philadelphia Daily News
The movie is a piece of advocacy, and it succeeds at that: The conclusive science presented is powerful evidence that there is only one side to this story” – Charles Taylor
Newsweek
The first step in convincing climate change skeptics is admitting some of those doom and gloom models were wrong. Gore just can’t do that. – Christian Toto
Hollywoodintoto.com
The movie did receive a 76% Tomatometer score but considering Planet of the Apes received a 93% Tomatometer score, for a defining issue such a Climate Change, this result is lackluster. Many of the Top Critics reviews are positive but there is discrepancy between the general public at only a 46% audience score. Keep in mind the majority of people who would pay to see this movie most likely champion Al Gore and the Global Warming perspective, these two results are dismal.
Comparing results to other movies such as “Emoji”, an animated child’s comedy with scornful ‘professional’ reviews with just a 6% RT score, the audience score was similar to Al Gore’s sequel at 43% who liked it. As I assume six-year-olds are not rating movies online like their parents, if allowed this score could actually be higher from a child’s perspective.
Could this be further evidence regular (even paying) public are just not concerned with evangelical scare stories about climate anymore. This movie appears to be more about Al Gore as other reviewers pointed out;
I’m still here and so is the issue I’ve been championing all these years.
[T]he end result feels like a runner taking a leisurely victory lap at the very start of a race, as the rest of his or her opponents sprint toward the finish line. – Mark Dujsik
Mark Reviews
The Climate message has failed to win the hearts and minds of persons outside of politics and the media even after decades of science, education and billions spent. Al Gore has pontificated on many occasions “we are running out of time”, yes I would agree, He is running out of time.
Links:
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/an_inconvenient_sequel_truth_to_power
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_emoji_movie
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It’s getting a lot of publicity from the likes of BBC and Channel 4 in the UK ahead of its premiere. Al Gore has been spouting his usual lies in front of the cameras. You’d think with all his money and his great scientific ability that he would be able to pay and get his rotten teeth fixed.
Rotten Teeth??? Probably from eating too many Rotten Tomatoes
Wow! For an Englishman to criticize someone else’s teeth them must be Awful.
But cereal folks, as I’ve pointed out before there is always a discrepancy on Rotten Tomatoes between professional critics and the viewing public on any ideological film. The critics know on which side of their bread is the butter. They pander to the political views of their editors and fellow journalists. Artistic merit are secondary to political correctness.
The whole point of doing a sequel is to get Al Gore Jr. in front of the TV cameras yammering his idiotic talking points. The critical and financial success of the film is of little concern to him.
So, who goes to see this movie? Would you take your kids? Date night? Saturday night out with the Missus? I don’t see too many folks out there who are going to shell out ten bucks for a moral flagellation job on the Western lifestyle, which most of us are empowered to change only symbolically and incrementally.
Or to put it more succinctly, this is a sermon of fire and brimstone, aimed at existing acolytes.
If fact, if the MSM wasn’t keeping it before the public eye, it would already have been gone yesterday.
I wonder what percentage of the people who actually watched this movie were critics who get paid to do so.
Or people who got complimentary tickets because they were already known to be “friendlies” for various reasons, I wonder, Mark . .
“Back in June, Paramount abandoned plans to give ‘An Inconvenient Sequel’ a wide release on July 28, choosing instead to release the film in only four screens in New York and Los Angeles on July 28 and only 180 screens nationwide a week later,” he (Washington Monthly writer D.R. Tucker) claimed.”
Salting such a small total initial audience with people known to be sympathetic to “the cause”, so as to boost early ratings, would be relatively cheap, it seems to me. And with no apparent expectation of making serious money anyway, perhaps a small price to pay for a minimal justification to push the “piece” into schools ans such . .
Good point about the sermon. How many non-Baptists sit there for a stem-winder Baptist fire and brimstone sermon?
Channel 4 interviewer referred to President Trump as ‘denier-in-chief’ while having a cosy chat with gore.
Such casual insults are what tv news has come to.
‘The movie did receive a 76% Tomatometer’
My guess is that anyone who actually went and saw it is already a died in the wool marching broom. They could have put pretty much anything on screen and gotten a positive rating.
Lock-step conformity.
Goose Step Conformity!!!
Lemmings. Knee-deep in Gore.
Weren’t Lemmings also Deep in Geere
But they did not get a positive from those who actually saw the movie (article says 46% positive)
Good friend of mine is a confirmed “libtard,” as some of you knuckledragging deniers would say, who has contributed to Democratic politicians, loves gun control and will likely own an electric car someday. He received an invitation with free tickets to attend a showing in Dallas. …. I must be having some positive effect on him — he chose not to go. … My question is, does the box-office number lump complimentary tickets in with paid tickets (in other words, do they extrapolate a dollar figure from seats filled, i.e., tickets taken in, or from actual dollars received)? Anyone know?
I’m sure the numbers are gerrymandered to get the most inflated bang for the bucks with no real connection to reality.
“dyed” in the wool
“As I assume six-year-olds are not rating movies online like their parents, if allowed this score could actually be higher from a child’s perspective.”
As would Gores sequel, from a child’s (ie: AGWA) perspective.
Common sense once again has overcome intellectual haughtiness.
When it comes to critics, the more they like a movie, the less likely I am to watch it.
Movie critics qualify as “intellectuals”?
You are right I should have used the term pseudo-intellectuals. Or half-wits. Or twats. Or …
An Al Gore movie about Al Gore. What could possibly be less interesting?
Al Gore.
+1
Green Al G. = Another term for pond scum.
I think Resourceguy left out a few orders of magnitude.
The sequel
Gore the bore.
Gore the idiot:
http://www.fearalgore.com/aldunce.jpg
Being connected via his dad probably saved him from a career as a used car salesman.
@ur momisugly I Came I Saw I Left …. Or as an Assistant Manager at Jack in the Box.
The choir likes the preacher. Imagine that!
I know, I was thinking that this is like rating a “movie” consisting of Joel Osteen’s favorite sermons. Osteen’s fans will flock to see it and unanimously say it was great, Osteen’s critics would deride it, and most of America would say “Joel Who?”.
Joel Who???
Auto
In the UK, never mind the USA.
Right, care of Wikipedia – the absolutely authoritative source, which even I can mangle, or improve – Joel Osteen is ‘The Smiling Preacher’, and “His sermons (are) also broadcast 24 hours a day on Sirius XM Satellite Radio, Channel 128.”
Well, now I know to be cautious of tuning to Channel 128 – anywhere!
Auto – enlightened – yes.
Enriched – maybe less so.
if you stand in the middle of a busy street in a white robe with a megaphone and repeatedly shout that the world is coming to an end next Tuesday, for a while people will stop and listen. But most people have their own lives to live, jobs to go to, mortgages to pay, children to raise. After a while most people will start to ignore you.
“After a while most people will start to ignore you.”
Especially after next Tuesday.
There will be no “after next Tuesday”
There will be if global temperatures turn down, or even if they Pause for long enough.
We’ve had at least 6 “after next Tuesday”‘s already. A dozen more are about to happen.
Roger, even if temperatures don’t turn down, none of the scary predictions are going to happen.
“Roger, even if temperatures don’t turn down, none of the scary predictions are going to happen.”
Right. I was just making the point that if temperatures turn down, people will start ignoring the prophets of doom, because their predictions of things getting warmer and worser will have been falsified.
“After next Tuesday”: That’s probably the day after tomorrow – and just as irrelevant, and untruthful..
Come on now, it was a great success as a 30-second previews placement in front of unsuspecting audiences. That is their main tactic as out-of-context inserts into the psyche whether they want it or not.
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Is this one of those fun stories that doesn’t amount to much.
Nailed it! Needed to lighten things up here a bit here sometimes.
If only there WAS a little sound and fury.
I think one of the things hurting this movie is the title. You don’t call a sequel a “sequel”, Al. You should have named it something like “Son of Inconvenient Truth” or “The Return of the Inconvenient Truth”. How about “Inconvient Truth II”? That would open up the possibility of coming back with III, IV, etc. You get the picture. Otherwise, you’re stuck in a rut of your own making. How are you going to name the next one? The sequel to the sequel? It sounds weird.
He wanted “The Inconvenient Truth 2”, but Mel Brooks told him that since it already embodied the concept of the Spaceballs sequel, he couldn’t also use the numeral in the title without copyright infringement.
Try “The Rictus of Al Gore.”
Inconvient Truth II : Electric Bugaboo
Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Blackouts
^¿^
More accurately it could have been called “The Incontinent Truth”.
The truth that dare not speak its name.
The Return of the Son of Shut Up and Play Your Inconvenient Truth
Meh, I’ll wait for the prequel. “The Ice Age Endeth”
Well clearly 54% of the country are shills for the oil companies. Or was there a confusing ballot this time too?
Oil companies OWN wind plants and solar plants. Why would they have shills out there? The free money from the government is great. They recycle it. Duke Energy loaned $10 million to the DNC for the 2012 Denver Democrat convention, then forgave the loan after the election. Obama believed in AGW. Yet it was worth $10 million to Duke to get him elected. I do NOT see oil companies opposing AGW. I do see rampant imaginations and inuendo, but no evidence. I see much support by oil companies.
2008 Investor Summit on Climate Risk, Feb.14, 2008, NYC, Final Report, 40 pages
Co-Hosted by : Amir Dossal, Mindy Luber, Timothy Wirth
Pp.17-20, Keynote Luncheon: Featured speaker Al Gore.
Remarks by Al Gore:
https://www.un.org/ga/president/62/ThematicDebates/gpicc/isfinalreport.pdf
Note others who were in attendance at this Summit.
UN News Centre, 14 June 2012
Rio + 20 Feature: Seven Issues, Seven Experts – Energy
Interview with Tim Wirth on Energy and Sustainable Development.
Read at:
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=42232
Generation Foundation
‘Building a long term shareholder base: Assessing the Potential of Loyalty-Driven Securities’, 2013, 36 pages.
The Generation Foundation has a connection to the U.N., U.S. & Canada Roadmaps 2016 & 2017.
http://www.genfound.org/media/1387/building-a-long-term-shareholder-base-mercer-stikeman-elliott-2013.pdf
Here is my Tribute to Al Gore’s New Sequel. https://youtu.be/MOzht91No_8
Nice job.
Brilliant as always. Just permalinked in favorites.
thats beautiful. thank you very much!
Poor Al and the movement….got two things going against it
More people are educated about GW now…which means more people are over it
+1
True. Go on The Daily Caller, Breitbart, Drudge, Fox etc. and the comments sections to every article are running about 98 to 1 against AGW alarmism. Alan Watts’ little dog has pulled back the curtain from the smoke and mirrors man Gore, and the proverbial cat is loooonnnng out of the bag. I’d bet the number of True Believers is now roughly equivalent to the number of NPR/Atlantic/New York subscribers, which is to say under half a million net. Everyone else has ceased to believe this is a “thing.” Or have resigned themselves that “what will be will be,” otherwise known as Common Sense.
Anthony has a brother “Tony”?
Lets all believe the doom and gloom, if you really think that your country/region is at risk of imminent boiling/freezing/flooding or drought would you: (A) spend large sums of money trying to change the composition of the atmosphere, or (B) spend that money on improving your resilience to whatever is the most problematic extreme weather for your region?
I choose the Al Gore option.
(C) Spend large sums on a beach-side house in Malibu so I can more closely monitor sea level rise.
“The movie is a piece of advocacy, and it succeeds at that: The conclusive science presented is powerful evidence that there is only one side to this story” – Charles Taylor
Newsweek
Talk about a tautology. You only present one side of the story so it seems there is no arguments against it. Therefore, there is only one side of the story. I guess Mr. Taylor never heard of propaganda.
Who expects a “piece of advocacy” to accurately portray both sides of a story?
They don’t call it “Newspeak” for nothing.
Perhaps Mr. Taylor forgot the sarc tag?
More of a “crockumentary” really.
Mockumentary I believe is the term for bogus documentaries.
George Will once referred to them as doctored dramas.
Could any one of these film critics even tell you the difference between mean, median and mode? If not, their comments are useless except from a film making angle.
I might not give their opinions even that much credit.
Mean = bad review
Median = the strip in the middle of the road
Mode = style
The Houston Chronicle gave it 3.5 stars out of 4…. I don’t remember a rating that good in ages. The review was fawning to say the least.
I guess it only takes 3 stars to make a black hole
Or a former Vice President the size of a small planet.
Here’s the review. Would have sent it sooner but I was gaging. http://www.houstonchronicle.com/entertainment/movies/article/An-Inconvenient-Sequel-balances-urgency-and-hope-11748766.php#photo-13671314
…gagging
I thought maybe you meant gaging how awful it was.
The movie “balances urgency and hope”
… analogous to the to the guy that ate the bad fish at the Indian restaurant, as he is doing the quick walk toward the restroom.
“The movie “balances urgency and hope””
Only what you’d expect from a movie called, “An Incontinent Sequel.”
From the first sentence of the review:
All I could think of was how Gore has changed his lifestyle. Jet-setting around on private charter jets along with multiple mansions. Must be nice.
Who could forget that posh $10 Million seaside condo in San Francisco less than 1 meter above the water line.
Sea level rise, much?
Nah, no problem.
I do tire of the Global Warming wars, but this time I could not stop laughing.
August 7 New Republic has an article explaining that Al Gore’s footprint doesn’t matter. Individual contributions are irrelevant. Only companies and governments can save the planet. (No, sadly, this is not sarcasm.)
What Sheri reports makes sense: The amount of CO2 that anti-CO2 advocates use is irrelevant if there is no change in the total production of CO2. It doesn’t really matter if they produce more CO2 or none at all.
But if their advocacy is successful, they will reduce CO2 production despite their personal CO2 production.
Sort of like fighting a war for peace.
ReallySkeptical: I agree. It makes no sense. However, it is an argument that was put forth in the public theater, supposedly as a rebuttal to Al Gore’s hypocrisy.
RS: “What Sheri reports makes sense:”
Sh: “I agree. It makes no sense.”
Okay.
Not.
It makes no sense. However, my comment should have read “I do not agree’. My bad.
The local movie guy referred to the August Dump. Apparently distributors dump their really bad movies into theaters in August because they expect them to tank anyway.
That explains a lot.
Funny. When I saw the acronym “RT” I thought it was the other RT – the Russian media organization.
Griff would have seen it at least 3 times by now, he’s got a wood for the guy.
Naw.
don’t like the man.
I don’t pay much attention to US politicians (same for most Europeans – I’d be surprised if many people know who he is)
The film I suspect is all very well, but with the same faults any presentation has these days -a tendency to over dramatisation and over simplification.
which I guess is down to the audience – the general public – we have these days.
Movie reviewers see themselves as part of The Entertainment Media. As such, they are required to be liberal.
If a major documentary filmmaker created a global warming movie that accurately laid out the skeptical, scientific case and did it with skill, style, and humor in a way that was absolutely unassailable, movie critics would give it an overwhelmingly failing grade.
“Movie reviewers see themselves as part of The Entertainment Media. As such, they are required to be liberal.”
Is it required that liberals can say nothing wrong about the movie, and conservatives can say nothing right?
What ever happened to reality? One can no longer express a scientific fact about climate without being labeled a liberal or a conservative, as if reality was determined by political ideology. Reality doesn’t give a hoot about our politics. It is what it is. Have we completely lost the ability to talk about reality? Are we now a post-reality species?
At least a post-modern species living in a post-modern age.