Hollywood Movies Are Toxic In More Ways Than One

The Stiletto ^ | November 15, 2006 | The Stiletto

[Sundog]

REALLY...

[Skylus]

One guess why this story will never gain traction...

[Borges]

AP ran it! I saw it in the Chicago Sun Times today. Not really surprising.

[rlmorel]

"...For instance, production companies for the films "The Day After Tomorrow," "Syriana" and "An Inconvenient Truth" planted trees and took other steps to “offset” some of the emissions they produced. And nearly all of the concrete, steel and lumber used to construct the sets for "The Matrix Reloaded" and "The Matrix Revolutions" was recycled..."

These people are whacked.

[SteveMcKing]

"laudable as these efforts are, much more needs to be done to counteract the pollution generated by Hollywood."

Ie. counteract the hypocrisy.

[Intolerant in NJ]

...only petroleum manufacturing created more air pollution in the five-county Los Angeles region than movie-making...and of course the actual content of many films, from car chases to explosions, don't set the best environmental-friendly examples either.....

[A message]

A two-year UCLA study finds that the film and television industry creates more greenhouse emissions than the aerospace, clothing, hotel and semiconductor industries.

I knew it, I knew it, I knew it.

I've been telling my clique of friends and acquaintances this for a couple years and since I'm in an aspect of the entertainment industry I tell the global warming zombies I work with that if I was President the first place I would cut emissions would be Hollywood and other entertainments.

Bookmarking !!!!

[theothercheek]

No kidding! They produced tons of greenhouse emissions - more than an entire forest could have absorbed. But as long as they feel good about themselves ... the smug bastards.

[theothercheek]

Yay! Glad I could back you up!

[A message]

Good post, thanks.

[GSlob]

"much more needs to be done to counteract the pollution generated by Hollywood.""
As Michelangelo Buonarroti wrote some 440-something years ago, "Clear them out of your life as the scandalous and evil-living lot they are". Most certainly he must have meant them, for the description fits them to a "t". Clear them out of your life and boycott them and everyone who even remotely looks like them.

[Borges]

I don't think Michaeangelo would endorse cutting the Arts out of your life.

[upchuck]

Similar: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1739162/posts

[theothercheek]

I was walking through Rockefeller Center a couple of weeks back - or trying to - and found Fifth Avenue and all the nearby side streets jammed with trailers, very bright klieg lights, all sorts of electronic equipment (plugged into the light poles - my tax dollars at work). Apparently Will Smith was shooting a scene near St. Patrick's Cathedral. I think it is some sort of global warming film because there were fake palm fronds and tropical looking vegetation strewn everywhere - even though the backdrop was clearly supposed to be New York City. If it is a movie about environmental disaster, then this UCLA report adds a touch of irony - wouldn't you say?

[Jaysun]

I don't care about their hypocrisy, I just want them to shut up. There are other people that make as much money as they do for relatively little effort (sports stars, for example) but you don't hear them rambling on about "war for oil" while receiving their trophies.

[theothercheek]

Yes, but that's just the AP article posted in its entirety, whereas this is a commentary.

[theothercheek]

You're most welcome!

[Future Snake Eater]

I would disagree about sports stars. Those folks put a LOT of work into what they do that goes way above and beyond memorizing and repeating dialogue in front of a camera.

[upchuck]

Like I wrote, similar.