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icklefickle

An Inconvenient Truth

Jul 14, 2006 23:33

So I finally got around to going to see An Inconvenient Truth. I've got to say, it's a damn good film. I mean, the science wasn't really new to me and it wasn't as detailed as what you'll get from Scientific American. But for a movie.... I think I might have to eat my words about movie theaters not being the place for serious political discourse ( Read more... )

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lowfatsourcreme July 15 2006, 22:01:20 UTC

Glad you liked it. I actually almost saw it yesterday too, but we decided on Wordplay as no one was really in the mood to be depressed/lose hope. (Maybe if I had known it ended optimistically...) But still definitely want to try to see it soon.

icklefickle July 16 2006, 02:49:29 UTC

Is Wordplay good?

lowfatsourcreme July 16 2006, 02:51:46 UTC

Quite. Nothing deep, but anyone who is that devoted to crossword puzzles is nerdly and weird in that nice kind of way, so a movie full of them is pretty fun. And there're some interesting tidbits of trivia in there (eg. the puzzle on Election Day '96 had a clue: "tomorrow's headline" which could work both as "CLINTONELECTED" or "BOBDOLEELECTED" and then they have both Clinton and Dole talking about it). In a vague sort of way, it's a bit like IC for adults in that it's a total festival of nerds, but in a rather different direction.