Posted on 06/04/2024 6:29:52 AM PDT by rktman
Aquaman might not mind if the oceans rise, but moviegoers might.
That’s one of the takeaways from a new study conducted by researchers who set out to determine if today’s Hollywood blockbusters are reflective of the current climate crisis. The vast majority of movies failed the “climate reality check” proposed by the authors, who surveyed 250 movies from 2013 to 2022.
The test is simple — the authors looked to see if a movie presented a story in which climate change exists, and whether a character knows it does. One film that passed the test was the 2017 superhero movie “Justice League, " in which Jason Momoa’s Aquaman character says, “Hey, I don’t mind if the oceans rise” to Ben Affleck’s Bruce Wayne.
But most movies fell short — fewer than 10% of the 250 films passed, and climate change was mentioned in two or more scenes of fewer than 4% of the films. That’s out of touch with a moviegoing public that wants “to see their reality reflected on screen,” said Colby College English professor Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, lead researcher on the study.
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1. Define the “correct” temperature range for the planet.
2. Define the “correct” humidity range for the planet.
3. Define the “correct” mean sea level for the planet.
4. Define the “correct” amount of precipitation for the planet.
5. Define the “correct” makeup of the atmosphere.
6. Define the “correct” amount of sea ice at the N/S poles.
7. Define/explain past glaciation and subsequent warming without any input from humans.
We'll wait.
They rarely reflect God....and the “EVER CHANGING” world HE created.
Good for the researchers. I hope they force Hollywood to include some climate change propaganda in every film as a “good citizen” gesture. After all, how can they ignore the biggest threat facing humanity? It would be a great way to get more people to watch their movies.
What a bunch of jackasses.
Communists are very good at solving imaginary problems.
According to the “science” and the propagandists we are supposed to be under a mile of ICE right now, why did the impending ICE AGE change in to global warming in 1985???
Bull! We watdh nothing but turner classic movies because movies of today are so vile and stomach turning- but even movies from the 40’s and 50’s were blatting on about climate change, and shows from that period were also doing so as well! Later shows like mutual of Omaha sanctimonious preached about the evils of man, claiming that we were destroying g the planet, and were nothing more than viruses preying on the saintly Animals and planet.
I watch a show I haven’t seen in d3cades, and am astonished at how political they were- back then we didn’t see it beczuse we watched shows for entertainment and content, not for their self sanctimonious, self-loathing preaching.
Apparently, movies with racial or homosexual themes don’t lose enough money to satisfy Hollywood loons. If’s time to drop the big one.
As if filmmakers need another arbitrary box to check on the Official Comprehensive Activist Matrix of Mandatory Themes.
I am coming around to the view that we are now past peak woke and that the major studios will begin to back off the extreme politicization. (Aside from Disney, which seems determined to turn the House of Mouse into a rainbow flag fortress.)
Time will tell, but if the major studios don’t straighten up, independent films and foreign films will be the future.
And just what climate change crisis is that?
Oh, yes. We don’t get enough left wing propaganda in entertainment. It’s up to those geniuses to show us cretins the way
“And just what climate change crisis is that?”
The one that causes big Hollywood stars (and top politicians) to buy mountain properties and shun the oceanside properties? It is the crisis that has led the wealthy of Hollywood to live in Oklahoma...
LOL, what would we do without them?
But they are certainly getting money from somewhere. How are all these loser movies being made? It can’t be to make money.
Exactly.
The one that they mistakenly believe was caused by capitalism and that in order to fix it, we must embrace socialism despite its horrible track record.
Put a chick in it and make her gay and make the whole plot about climate change.
“make her gay”? LOL! Pretty sure that’s why ‘woke house’ spokesperson, creamy john pee-air got her/their/thems job. Plus she gets points for being a bipoc.
Bollocks; any end of the world or disaster movie always pipes climate nonsense into the plot.
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