 inconvenient troof. Monday, February 26, 2007 the oscars were last night. you probably knew that if you are breathing this morning. safe to say that i am at times overtly passionate about films and the making of films. it ebbs and flows at varying levels of interest. i have seen a few of the films being touted as 'best' this or that. The Departed, Little Miss Sunshine, Pan's Labryinth, Half Nelson to name a few. i'd like to see Last King of Scotland, Babel, Little Children and Notes on a Scandal. you couldn't pay me to set through Dreamgirls, The Queen or the Pursuit of Happyness. just not my cup of tea and these sort of TV movies gone big screen lead me to believe that just seeing the trailer is plenty enough. I know Dreamgirls is broadway come to life with a bunch of derivative music, helen mirren looks like the Queen, nuff said. will smith, sorry, i just don't buy the fresh prince as much of any thing other than the fresh prince, seeing him homeless with a jheri curl ain't gonna change my views...but I didn't sit down to rant on mainstream cinema, it has its place and as blind, dumb entertainment--it is just fine. i did appreciate one film that 'won' its category. VP Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. little more that documentation of Gore's traveling PowerPoint presentation, the film garnered viewers from across a wide spectrum (when you see the DVD packaged at Wal-Mart in recycled cardboard with a free pro-environment light bulb you know it is bigger than just us nutty libs) and did something that every movie at the oscars, fact or fiction, hoped to do...it made us think about the world beyond just what is perched upon our noses. the film's popularity urged this retarded administration to actually acknowledge 'climate change' as an issue. it forced a few more people to walk the walk instead of just yakking the yak on the environment. just ask toyota the success they've had with hybrids...it ain't just old hippies driving them either. it's popularity forced the critics out of the woodwork to label all believers as 'environmental wackos' something i was called by the likes of rush limbaugh a dozen years ago. politicians and pundits on the right will do anything to protect the interests of big energy, oil, manufacturing and the war industry by continuing to deny that there is such a thing as a climate change issue. my favorite bit of right-wing 'debunking' on the part of greenhouse gases is that the real culpirt isn't man at all...all natural sources; volcanoes, animal and plant respiration, and the oceans. they frighten the populace with the money arguement that to cut back carbon monoxide emissions 20% in the next ten years, we would have to spend about 100 billion dollars a year...sure turning off the hall light when you leave for work and riding your bike could cost us tons of our (gasp!) tax dollars...after all, we have a war and more wars to fight--we need all we can get for bombs. But even you cutting back and us raping the pork barrel means that we would still leave one of the biggest polluters untouched: TREES! yes, trees and plants only clean the air while they are growing. once fully grown, they actually give off carbon dioxide! the right-wing, anti-warming argument is like a bizarro world version of soylent green...GLOBAL WARMING IS.....TREEEEEEEEEES! so as the ice melts in the artic, you are to believe that the traffic, smog and pumping smokestacks are less harmful than the pin oak papaw planted on the front lawn in '68. i'm buying, how about you? global warming is not about al gore or politics or the UN or scientists with or without agendas...common sense, just plain old common sense, use less energy, make less waste and so on and so on and shoobie doobie doobie. monday...who needs it? polar snow cap. Yashica Electro 35. Kodak Ultra Color 400. VOTE--JPG! Beauty Redefined and Entropy. how about them 2007 Photobloggie nominations? screw you oscar! donate. win a rollei, get some art, help a kid. Comment (6) | Permalink |
