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Even those who appreciated former vice president Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” will find themselves squirming at just how blatantly the filmmakers stack the deck.
Like "An Inconvenient Truth" for the 12-and-under crowd, "Dr.
Emma Bell (2007's " Gracie "), Shawn Ashmore (2008's " The Ruins ") and Kevin Zegers (2005's " Transamerica ") deliver terrific performances equaling the intensity that writer-director Adam Green ratchets, embodying specific individuals rather than easy types.
Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)
Directed by Matthew Vaughn
influenced by An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
It's as if An Inconvenient Truth had ended with Al Gore saying, "Nothing we can do, so let's cheer ourselves up," then started showing photos of LOLcats.
The Simpsons Movie (2007)
Directed by David Silverman
influenced by An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
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The film manages to lampoon An Inconvenient Truth even as it is obviously on the same side as the Al Gore documentary; that pretty much describes the show in a nutshell, bringing up the issues with just enough self-deflation so that the message and not the preachiness gets through.
Political stuff's here, too, like when Lisa uses a scissor-lift to show how bad the pollution in the lake will get, a la An Inconvenient Truth, but by the end, the townsfolk are really only convinced they need a new lift.
The writers (eleven are credited) take shots at global-warming deniers as well as tweaking An Inconvenient Truth, and there�s some sobering stuff about mob mentality, but mostly the film ends up being character-driven � and nicely character-driven at that, though nothing much that die-hards haven�t seen before.
Lisa Simpson, the family's do-gooder daughter, creates her version of "An Inconvenient Truth" – it's called "An Irritable Truth" – but again, the barbs are blunted.
An Inconvenient Sequel is no An Inconvenient Truth.
"Hugo" is essentially Scorsese's "An Inconvenient Truth," a triumphant rallying cry for his personal passion -- getting audiences to care about protecting and preserving films.
For audiences, the big question about the documentary "The 11th Hour" undoubtedly is: How is it different from "An Inconvenient Truth"?
The first feature by cinematographer Wally Pfister (“Inception,” “Moneyball,” “The Dark Knight Rises”) suffers from a script aiming for present-tense future shock that mashes up an unholy hybrid of movies past and clichés everlasting, notably “The Lawnmower Man” and “An Inconvenient Truth.”
Of course, such things can be said of most stories these days, but with Avatar it seems even more obvious — a bit of Aliens here, a bit of The Matrix Revolutions there, a bit of An Inconvenient Truth for good measure, and so on with countless other recognisable tropes.