I decided to go to
rottentomatoes.com to see the reviews for
An Inconvenient Truth. I noticed that there were 2 splats. I also noticed the headlines for the bad reviews. Phil Hall from Film Threat:
"A 96-minute political commercial supporting the deification of Al Gore." The other was by Tony Medley and is the title of my diary.
I would not care if this movie got bad reviews. I would care if it was bad. Man I hope not. But these two urrm, gentlemen seem to have an issue with either Gore himself or with the "left" or "leftie", as Mr. Medley put both in his opening paragraph.
Phil Hall no likey the film. This is how he ends a very short and very politcal review:
"An Inconvenient Truth" is something you rarely see in movies today: a blatant intellectual fraud. Shame on all of the people involved in this travesty.
From his second paragraph:
Yes, the man who (in his words) used to be the next President of the United States is now on the big screen in this self-serving slop where he hosts a slide show lecture on how global warming occurs and what it is doing to the planet. Looking like a corpulent Zeppo Marx and displaying all of the lethargic personality that repeatedly underwhelmed the American voters, Gore's lecture is among the least riveting stand-up routines to play the lecture circuit. If that's not bad enough, all of the facts presented in this lecture have been reported widely before and there is not one iota of new information in this offering.
Mista Medley starts off his review this way:
One thing you gotta say for the left; they never give up. With their almost total control of Hollywood, they can put out this thing which is apparently trying to prove that we are in a period of global warming, that man is responsible, and that we in the United States have the ability to stop it if only we had the will. This film, which is pop science gone mad, is the baby of leftie producer Laurie David, wife of Seinfeld co-creator, Larry.
Nice way to make sure that you are not confused or associated with the damn never giving up left. Oh but then we get this:
That something is happening is irrefutable. That it is something that can be attributed to human behavior, which is the point of the film, is much more debatable.
I was under the impression that the only "debate" going on was within the energy industry. Mr. Medley sir, thank you for um, opening my eyes?
Oh, If you are bored and can waste about 90 seconds, check
This really damned funny video out.