[AGL] an Al Gore film?

Wayne Johnson cadaobh at shentel.net
Mon Apr 17 14:59:11 EDT 2006


So.  just how "grave" can Al Gore get?  He was pretty "grave" whilst trying 
to get elected as a recall.  About as warm as a sack of cement most of the 
time.

wgJ
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> “An Inconvenient Truth” is not likely to displace the boffo numbers of 
> “Ice Age” in Variety’s weekly grosses. It is, to be perfectly honest (and 
> there is no way of getting around this), a documentary film about a 
> possibly retired politician giving a slide show about the dangers of 
> melting ice sheets and rising sea levels. It has a few lapses of mise en 
> scène. Sometimes we see Gore gravely talking on his cell phone—or gravely 
> staring out an airplane window, or gravely tapping away on his laptop in a 
> lonely hotel room—for a little longer than is absolutely necessary. And 
> yet, as a means of education, “An Inconvenient Truth” is a brilliantly 
> lucid, often riveting attempt to warn Americans off our hellbent path to 
> global suicide. “An Inconvenient Truth” is not the most entertaining film 
> of the year. But it might be the most important.
>
> <http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/060424ta_talk_remnick>
>
> 




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