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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He’ll always be ManBearPig to me..
In round numbers, CO2 is 400 parts per million. Simple arithmetic says that’s 1 part per 2,500 which is easier for a person to visualize.
If I fill a fish tank with 2499 white ping pong balls to represent non CO2 and 1 red ping pong ball to represent CO2, I’d like someone that believes in CO2 warming causation to explain the physical mechanism for warming. If CO2 were some kind of lid on the atmosphere, I’d agree that it is capable of retaining heat. But CO2 is in such a minor concentration and is heavier than “air” that I see no way for it to affect the temperature in any measurable way.
Please, someone explain the physical mechanism for one heated CO2 molecule to influence the temperature of the other 2499.
Another analogy is to imagine a stack of five reams of copy paper (each ream consisting of 500 pages) compared to one sheet of paper representing CO2.
The weekend box office data is upon us already. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?view=&yr=2017&wknd=32&p=.htm says the film has 3X the theaters it did last week, but the weekend gross dropped
17% to $800,000.