It looks like a pretty good movie. I will check it out. You guys just get so caught up in wanting a realistic movie but Hollywood is about make believe. Some of you have a hard time with that concept.
I don’t give a rat’s ass about the movie or whether it’s realistic. Its purpose is to disseminate supposed ‘facts’ about fracking and it has already been debunked as utter malarkey on that count. Not to mention numerous reviews giving it the thumbs down in terms of film making quality. Only an idiot would dismiss its purpose and potential effect as propaganda which is what it was made to be.
The tiger is right. I have been in the oil and gas business 35 years, and started out as a “Landman”, as Matt Damon does in the movie, buying oil and gas leases from farmers and landowners. The movie sensationalizes falsehoods about frac technology which has been safely used my entire career, and the movie propagates falsehoods about evil intentions of energy companies. One thing I am absolutely sure of is evil intentions of the Federal regulators re frac processes. Somebody must want us to not develop American natural resources, and depend on imports instead. Who do you suppose would benefit from continued energy imports to the USA?