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| Director: Davis Guggenheim
Actors: Al Gore, Billy West, George Bush, George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Rating:  1118 reviews
Sales Rank: 1043
Format: Color, Ntsc, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 100
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.2
MPN: PARD348084D
UPC: 097363480846
EAN: 0097363480846
ASIN: B000ICL3KG
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
Release Date: November 21, 2006
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Condition: disc in good shape; no scratches or skips; case & insert fine; ships 1st class.
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 The Earth is warming. Period. September 22, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Wake up, people! While there may be disagreement about the exact consequences of global warming, there is no doubt in scientific circles that the Earth's climate is changing and that we have something to do with it.
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Al Gore is awesome September 9, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This film gives excellent information that an untrained person can relate to in an everyday way. Al Gore is wonderful. He tells a story that gives one pause and then he gives you hope and an energized look at what can be done.
It's not all fire and brimstone, but this film gets serious on what matters most. The film is a wonderful example of how one person can use their power and influence to do the right thing. It also makes you wonder, deeply and sadly, what our world would look like right now had we gotten President Gore in office, as those of us who voted for him, the majority of America, wanted.
Woe is me. The folly of the American people and their so called representation.
 Ugh September 7, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Let me state, up front, I have never been a fan of former Vice President Al Gore. He was a right of center Democrat who worked in an administration whose environmental record was considered, by most ecological groups, worse than the two Republican administrations that preceded his, and held that office at a time when the earliest stages of global warming, which he now decries, were first becoming known. As the second most visible politician in the country, did he sound the alarums then? Well, no. He wrote a book or two, but did nothing of any real consequence with the power he had. However, his Johnny Come lately status as an environmentalist, which led to his winning of the Nobel Peace Prize, as well as an Oscar for the 94 minute 2006 documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, has nothing to do why it's a bad film. That's due solely to the film's director Davis Guggenheim, most noted as a network television director.... The film is basically two thirds of Gore preaching to the public about global warming by giving a slide show with some neat graphics. Again, the vast majority of what he states is incontrovertible, and the few areas where he exaggerates are minor disagreements between the scientific community where he chooses the worst scenario for dramatic effect. This is forgivable on Gore's part, and even the filmmaker's. It is also quite effective. But, where the film tanks, and also goes way beyond any reasonable standard for calling itself a documentary, is in the interspersed other third of the film, where we get the fetishistic close-ups of Gore as saint aborning, and in the hamhanded voiceovers. Putting aside the fact that the writing of the voiceovers is cringe-inducing (see above), Guggenheim could have at least put on a patina of objectivity by having the voiceovers done by someone else- perhaps another Left Winger like Tim Robbins. Instead, we are left with the unseemly deification of Al Gore....by Al Gore!
Even worse we get a parade of Oprah Winfrey-level sob stories about how tough a life Al Gore has- being born with a silver spoon, political power, and the disappointment of being out-scioned by George W. Bush for the Presidency. There are some genuine bad things that the film inexplicably digresses to, such as his sister's death from lung cancer and his son's near-fatal car crash. So? I mean, what is the point of the film- to act as a documentary about the global warming crisis, or about Al Gore's `indomitable courage'? Such courage which propels him to `walk alone' in airports- as if he's just a `regular person.' Or to spend hours on his laptop computer monkeying with graphs. Ooh, he's deep. Yup. Yes he is. Yessirreebob! But, if Guggenheim could only stop with the up the nostrils viewpoint so many of his shots have. I mean, even if Al Gore is the greatest man in the history of our species, do we really need to be able to count his nose hairs?....Overall, An Inconvenient Truth has important ideas, but is a bad film precisely because those ideas are made secondary to the ego of Al Gore. That is not Gore's fault, but Guggenheim's, yet is precisely why An Inconvenient Truth is a bad film, and not even remotely a `documentary.'
 Global warming September 1, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Was a very interesting movie. Bought it because my little brother was doing his senior project on global warming. He loved the movie
 An embarrasing lie. August 31, 2008
4 out of 10 found this review helpful
What this documentary DOESN'T tell you is that all of the big concerns that Mr. Gore uses to frighten his viewers occur *naturally*. See Global Warming: A Scientific and Biblical Expose' of Climate Change.
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