An Inconvenient Truth

A hint I think may be gathered by the various comments on this thread.I was quite amazed at the number of people who liked this film who want to make it "mandatory" or "compulsory".I think this gives us a little... Full review

Something very strange happens when you talk about Global Warming: science goes out the window and "belief" and "consensus" becomes the topic of discussion. It's because of that fact that I give a failing mark to Al Gore's documentary. Instead of... Full review

Before seeing this movie I thought that it might sway the debate on global warming. I assumed that the entire movie was going to be about global warming, and if it had been it would have been much more effective.... Full review

I thought that this was on the whole a good film - I can imagine it being an EXCELLENT film for teachers to show to a class to explain global warming, actually. It explains the facts very well, explains away... Full review

... If you do not, and you have grandchildren, you should explain to them why you decided not to." - Roger EbertAfter the closing credits to An Inconvenient Truth rolled, I walked out to my car in the theater's parking... Full review

Let me start by saying that energy conservation and incentives to stop pollution are A Good Thing.Too bad the film isn't about that topic until the final credits are rolling.Al Gore is on a mission; however, it's not to save... Full review

Is Al Gore is doing a Chicken Little act in "An Inconvenient Truth"? I wish he were. This stunning documentary about global warming is a well-reasoned, clearly-proved, intelligent, cogent, irresistible torrent of scientific data, in a curiously warm, engaging, often... Full review

I just got out of a sneak preview of this film, and I must say that it is the best movie I've seen in the last year. Go see it!Whether you're a fan of Al Gore or not, he isn't... Full review

Plain and simple - all the negative comments here are from people that simply haven't seen it. See the movie before you try to disprove points that it's not trying to make. See the movie even if you think the... Full review

This is an aspect of Environmental Science 101 that everyone should learn. If you aren't big into charts and graphs, you may have a hard time sitting still by the end of the film, but that's the point. Cold, hard... Full review

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It was a well put together film," said Thomas Zorabedian, a professor of film studies. In the movie, the ice breakup triggers climate shifts that send massive tornadoes into Los Angeles. ... Full Review

of this year, there was nothing really planned, resulting in some great moments (although perhaps too few for some music lovers) in the documentary It Might Get Loud, by Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth). I just enjoyed seeing Jimmy Page play up close, it was the kind of thing that made me want to play music in the first place. ... Full Review

The film emerges, more skillfully than "Flock of Dodos," as an exceedingly clever vehicle for making science engaging to a general audience, and also presents climate-change science in a more complex light than the overtly partisan "An Inconvenient Truth. ... Full Review

An Inconvenient Truth didn't move me as it did many others, but it would be interesting to see if Guggenheim could make something that would liven up the convention broadcast. Davis Guggenheim , who won an Academy Award for his documentary An Inconvenient Truth , is reportedly working on a film about Senator Barack Obama that will be shown during the Democratic National Convention in late August, according to The Huffington Post . ... Full Review

Winter's Bone , a film about a teenage girl who must venture deep into the wilderness to find her meth-making father, took home the grand jury prize for U.S. dramatic film at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. ... Full Article

A strong statement but an unsurprising one, given Redford's high-profile support for Native American rights, his energetic environmentalism and a political curiosity that stretches right back to his stalking Woodward and Bernstein for their story long before the dust of... ... Full Article

In a rather fitting Darwinist turn, non-fiction films about the environment are evolving. The mutations are evident here at the Sundance Film Festival, considered by many as the Petri dish that spawned a subspecies of documentary when Al Gore and... ... Full Article

PARK CITY - AFTER his Oscar-winning An Inconvenient Truth spotlighted climate change, Davis Guggenheim is hoping to do for the US public education system what he did for the environment. ... Full Article

LOS ANGELES - At the Sundance Film Festival four years ago, the global-warming debate took center stage with the premiere of an alarming work, the director Davis Guggenheim's documentary "An Inconvenient Truth." ... Full Article

LOS ANGELES -- Midnight at the Sundance Film Festival is usually when most Hollywood types are just starting to party. But at this year's showcase of independent film, many film buyers will be heading in a different direction: late-night sales... ... Full Article