Wildfires in Hollywood

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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."

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Me: I wish life was like a movie

Also me: Not that fucking movie.

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Many people forget that the reason everybody is trying to find a new planet in interstellar, is because climate change made theirs unhabitable.

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I really like the first half of the movie. That feeling of outrage as they try to get attention is just so well done. But the second half just gets too painful. I can’t watch it

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Yeah, one of the few good movies I watched that felt emotionally draining. Joker is another good example.

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The people it needs to reach are world leaders, and that's just not going to happen. World leaders aren't blind to the problem, they're just fine with burning the earth for money.

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Your brother-in-law is an idiot.

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Was it explicitly climate change? I thought it was “blight” or whatever fictional disease killing crops.

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Don't forget wall-e

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If anything they beat the drum too much, I didn't see "Don't Look Up", because of Trump Fatigue. Like so much media from 2015-2020 that got made had one note, and that note was "Orange Man Bad", and I'm like "I know, I couldn't be more aware that orange man bad. I did everything I could to stop it, but Americans are idiots."

It's like.. I get it everything is fucked. You can stop blasting the despair in my face any second now.

Like I'm actually glad Hazbin Hotel got delayed for so long, because I just know Adam was basically just "Donald Trump with a harp and a halo" in an earlier draft, there's no way in literal Hell he wasn't.

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Pretty much, the problem is Hollywood can only choose between "Make a good movie" or "Have a good message", when "Make an entertaining movie that deliver the message without being overly preachy" was always an option, gaming does it all the time. (Which is probably why Video Game Movies are such big money makers now)

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Pretty much, see the endless amount of idiots who unironically see themselves as the antagonist and think it's a good thing.

(Trump's kids unfavorably comparing the Left to the Resistance in the newer Star Wars films which very blatantly had the First Order be a stand-in for America's Alt Right and Kylo Ren a warning about toxic masculinity, now that's something I'll never forget)

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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.

And even then I have to remind people that saying "Idiocracy is a documentary!" that they're being too optimistic.

We are NOT in a fully-automated sex-positive polygamous future with leadership that acknowledges society's problems and places its best and brightest towards a solution, one where free speech is so alive you can even name your restaurant "Buttfuckers" and no one's even slightly offended, one where even the least educated people in our society can get good quality high-paying jobs.

And I don't understand why people think we have it anywhere near that good.

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Ellen DeGeneres saw Trump watching Finding Dory and tried to explain that the movie was about how it was wrong to separate families.

Trump loved it and had a viewing party at the White House.

ICE illegally separated families at the border, kicked parents back to Mexico, and adopted the kids into white families.... And those were the lucky ones, the unlucky ones died in a concentration camp composed solely of children where the teenagers were expected to take care of the kids who were in turn expected to take care of the toddlers.

Trump and his wife Melania showed up with the latter literally wearing a shirt that read "I don't really care, do you?"

You cannot appeal to the conscience of someone who doesn't have one, no matter how good your movie is or what it's about.