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Auntiemike
Member
09-17-2001
| Sunday, July 02, 2006 - 8:22 pm
I love the title to this movie. Just saw it tonight with DH. It was good but not quite as hard hitting as I've read from other sources about global warming effects. One must stay through the credits to read the ways to respond to this crisis. And, it IS A WORLDWIDE CRISIS. However, it seems the U.S. plays the largest part in escalating the global warming effects and needs to get behind some things politically. This probably should be shown at every mid or high school in America.
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Jan
Moderator
08-01-2000
| Friday, July 21, 2006 - 10:08 am
I saw it yesterday. I expected to be bored (went to keep a friend company) but I thought it was excellent!! I agree it should be shown in the high schools.
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Calamity
Member
10-18-2001
| Friday, July 21, 2006 - 10:25 am
*Gasp* Bored?! I still haven't seen it. Far as I can tell, it's only showing at the Cedar Lee around here and that's pretty far from me. Kinda seems wrong to drive so far to see a move about how driving so much (among other human activities) is harming our climate. P.S. I sure wish Gore was president.
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Jan
Moderator
08-01-2000
| Friday, July 21, 2006 - 10:40 am
I thought I'd be bored because i thought it was just a film about a speech. But I was definitely NOT bored!! The time went very very quickly. It was extremely well done. I told my friend, if gore had been that good doing speeches during the campaign he might have become president!!!
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Faerygdds
Member
08-29-2000
| Friday, July 21, 2006 - 12:54 pm
Jan: I said the same thing to my hubby on our way out of the theater. Cool thing? My nephew is a movie buff and I am trying to turn him on to the whole documentary world. Started with March of the Penguins... Now he is 12 and getting all mature on me. We talked last week and he asked me what movies I had seen and I told him I saw this great movie that I thought would be good for him to see. When I told him the name he said, "Isn't that a documentary on global warming and climate change?" I think I was just shocked that he knew what those things were. I told him he was right and that we had seen it and recommended it to his grandparents. Cool part - He told me he thought it sounded like a really important film and since they (grandparents) hadn't seen it and his parents hadn't mentioned it... that he was going to try to get all 4 of them to take him. Then he asked if I would babysit his siblings! Man they grow up fast! And it looks like my evil plan to get him hooked on the world of documentaries has paid off! 
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Jan
Moderator
08-01-2000
| Friday, July 21, 2006 - 2:49 pm
good for you, Faery - if we can convince the 12 yr olds, they can change the world!!
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Faerygdds
Member
08-29-2000
| Friday, July 21, 2006 - 2:58 pm
That's why I sort of "targeted" him. When I was in Jr High School I had a History teacher that was had his PhD. He WAS a professor, but opted to teach Jr high kids because, "their minds are still open." I never forgot that, so I want to get the kids interested in social issues when they are still open to change. Of course... my Mom did that and now she tells me I was born in the wrong era -- should have been a flower child... LOL
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Calamity
Member
10-18-2001
| Saturday, July 22, 2006 - 11:28 am
That's my sneaky agenda with my nephew. He just turned two and I got him a subscription to a nature magazine for ages 1-4 (his big sister is 4 so they can share it). My s-i-l doesn't like animals or caring about the ecology so I know they won't be exposed to it from her! So it's up to me, lol. ETA: There's been some interesting documentaries out recently - Why We Fight, the one about the electric car, this one, etc.
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Faerygdds
Member
08-29-2000
| Saturday, July 22, 2006 - 12:47 pm
Who killed the Electric Car... Yeah.. that's the next one I want to see... So are we good aunties or just sneaky ones?
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Fabnsab
Member
08-07-2000
| Saturday, July 22, 2006 - 9:32 pm
calamity, the cedar lee has bargain mondays- $5 all day and free popcorn. Thats when we go. That deal might be worth the trek for you. also, amc has bargain tuesdays- $4 and popcorn. We haven't made it to see this movie yet but I am planning on it.
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Calamity
Member
10-18-2001
| Tuesday, July 25, 2006 - 10:50 am
Faerygdds: We're both (good AND sneaky), lol! Fabnsab: Thanks for the reminder .
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Vsmart
Member
02-10-2003
| Wednesday, July 26, 2006 - 11:02 pm
The solutions proposed in the credits were simplistic. It avoided the real hot potato of birth control. Fewer people on the planet would affect the environment less.
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Calamity
Member
10-18-2001
| Thursday, July 27, 2006 - 9:01 am
That is another inconvenient truth, Vsmart. I've posted in News & Views about it and it's definitely a controversial topic. We're going to see this next week, I hope.
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