Wildfires in Hollywood

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It probably needs a movie where red cap wearing idiots are Farquaated repeatedly in increasingly ludicrous ways before any sinks in.

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Not to mention the entire series of “Scorcher” movies, starring the famous Tugg Speedman.

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Yes, because we haven't been calling them fools for years, maybe we should try it! Maybe it'll work and not just drive them further and further away from sanity out of spite!

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You should try setting an example next time.

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And the message went completely over the heads of the people it needed to reach.

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Telling myself that this is metaphorical and not some boomer taken in by the AI images of the Hollywood sign burning to keep myself from going on an unhinged rant about the exact location of Hollywood, the Hollywood sign, and the fires.

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Shoulda voted for a Republican mayor

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That movie is so amazing

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We've also been trying to explain facts but that's even less effective.

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That movie was so difficult to watch

It physically hurt to watch.

edric

How many times do you expect them to best the drum?

*gestures at all the recycled crap hollywood puts out.

JaggedRobotPubes

I'm trying to get it, and it isn't working, and I'm thinking maybe it's not me.

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the message went completely over the heads of the people it needed to reach

You had a series of very cynical and deliberately manipulative media coverage of the film which tried to spin it as anything but a climate change movie. And then you had a bunch of "man on the street" pieces intended to make viewers appear stupid.

But the core theory of media influenced economic change is rooted in the idea that a movie can shift people from their profit motives. No oil executive is going to watch a slapstick comedy and decide to shift his business's core financial model because of a few jokes. No bank executives are going to divest from carbon emitting industries because some Hollywood starlets made fun of them. No senior member of political leadership is going to change how mining permits and environmental regulations are written because Adam McKay posted big numbers at the box office.

The Network didn't change how Americans consumed their news media. Soylent Green didn't cause Americans to reconsider our policies on factory farming. Jarhead didn't cause any military personal to exit Iraq or Afghanistan. The only movie that seems to have really moved the dial on public policy is Idiocracy, the inspiration behind Elon Musk and Peter Thiel's quest to get more IT people to fuck.

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Americans love nothing more than to wallow in their own filth while pointing and laughing at their neighbors.

I am smart. You are dumb. That's why we're in this mess together.

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The Day After Tomorrow had a dude that was basically a stand-in for Dick Cheney so Dennis Quaid could tell him that he should have done more sooner.

Waterworld, earth covered in water after the ice caps melted.

Geostorm took for granted that we needed a global network of satellites to battle climate change.

And who can forget The Happening or Birdemic?

Oh, you wanted good movies? (tho I lowkey love Geostorm)

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Some people have been trying, sure. But most just choose to try and prove their superiority by being as obnoxious as possible.

And no, saying what you believe to be right in a condescending matter is not "trying to explain facts".

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The author appears to erroneously think that regular people who watch movies are most responsible for climate change, as opposed to corporations.

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You lay out the bare facts. Proof is demanded. You lay out proof: studies, papers, data. The response is that the data is made up and that these so-called scientist and experts are not to be trusted. That's followed up that it's all the fault of Kamela anyway because she slept her way to the top or something similar. Oh yes, great conversations.

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I thought Tomorrowland was good. Not great. But good enough.

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My brother-in-law explicitly thought that the movie was commentary on "the liberal media."