No matter what is happening, the climate cult will attach itself (I’ve intentionally left the links in the article in the excerpts, when I usually scrape them)
2024 Was the Year the Climate Movie Grew Up
Whether you agree probably depends on how you define “climate movie” to begin with.Climate change is the greatest story of our time — but our time doesn’t seem to invent many great stories about climate change. Maybe it’s due to the enormity and urgency of the subject matter: Climate is “important,” and therefore conscripted to the humorless realms of journalism and documentary. Or maybe it’s because of a misunderstanding on the part of producers and storytellers, rooted in an outdated belief that climate change still needs to be explained to an audience, when in reality they don’t need convincing. Maybe there’s just not a great way to have a character mention climate change and not have it feel super cringe.
Whatever the reason, between 2016 and 2020, less than 3% of film and TV scripts used climate-related keywords during their runtime, according to an analysis by media researchers at the University of Southern California. (The situation isn’t as bad in literature, where cli-fi has been going strong since at least 2013.) At least on the surface, this on-screen avoidance of climate change continued in 2024. One of the biggest movies of the summer, Twisters, had an extreme weather angle sitting right there, but its director, Lee Isaac Chung, went out of his way to ensure the film didn’t have a climate change “message.”
The cult’s definition of “climate movie/show/book” is pretty expansive. I’ve read where some of the zombie and scifi books I have read are about/include climate doom, when that is not what they are about
I have a slightly different take on the situation, though — that 2024 was actuallyfull of climate movies, and, I’d argue, that they’re getting much closer to the kinds of stories a climate-concerned individual should want on screen. (smip)
But what if we widened our lens and weren’t so prescriptive? Then maybe Furiosa, this spring’s Mad Max prequel, becomes a climate change movie. The film is set during a “near future” ecological collapse, and it certainly makes you think about water scarcity and our overreliance on a finite extracted resource — but it also makes you think about how badass the Octoboss’ kite is. The same goes for Dune: Part Two, which made over $82 million in its opening weekend and is also a recognizable environmental allegory featuring some cool worms. Even Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, a flop that most people have already memory-holed, revisitedThe Day After Tomorrow’s question of, “What if New York City got really, really, really cold?”
Mad Max never had anything to do with ‘climate change’. Dune damned sure had nothing to do with it, as written. The planet Arakis was a desert planet. There were no fossil fueled vehicles that destroyed it. And the Ghostbusters? Good grief.
Two 2024 animated films with climate themes could even compete against each other at the Academy Awards next year. Dreamworks Animation’s The Wild Robot, one of the centerpiece films at this fall’s inaugural Climate Film Festival, is set in a world where sea levels have risen to submerge the Golden Gate Bridge, and it impresses on its audience the importance of protecting the natural world. And in Gints Zilbalodis’ Flow, one of my favorite films of the year, a cat must band together with other animals to survive a flood.
No idea on those two. Wild Robot did do well at the box office, I believe. A nice way of indoctrinating the kiddies.
Perhaps this is how we should also consider Chung’s comments about Twisters. While nobody in the film says the words “climate change” or “global warming,” the characters note that storms are becoming exceptional — “we’ve never seen tornadoes like this before,” one says. Despite the director’s stated intention not to make the movie “about” climate change, it becomes a climate movie by virtue of what its audiences have experienced in their own lives.
Tornadoes never happened before YOU decided to drive a fossil fueled vehicle. Oh, and they are not getting more extreme. Anyhow, that’s it for the movies. A couple minor TV shows are mentioned. So, how is this “growing up”? Sounds like the same old BS.
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https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2024/12/why-nativity-family-friendly-christmas.html
Texas to the rescue. Yet again.
Biden is trying to sell all the left over border wall which is still in great shape and ready to begin installation again.
Trucks are rounding it up to take it to auction.
Texas stepped in and put a nix on this, and right now, there are 50,000 panels sitting at an auction house waiting for Trump to be Inaugurated.
I can guarantee you Biden did not order this. His fuking lunatic, unelected cronies. Hell these people werent even vetted for their jobs or confirmed by congress and they are running our government.
Elon Musk: Fuking lunatic; unelected crony. Hell, this person wasn’t even vetted for the job or confirmed by Congress and he is running our government.
Yeah, sorry loser Hillary says that too.
Guess the Clinton Global Initiative is starting to run low on cash.
Keep crying, loser. You sound like all the other liars and grifters who now see their careers ending. FLASH! Nobody believes your bullshit any more. It’s funny how all your “unelected” billionaire cronies are just fukin wonderful but ever since Musk went Republican he became a curse word. You are a loser.
LBJ
You’re the loser, and we don’t need to reiterate why, do we?
Musk invested over $270 MILLION to get a ‘man’ in office to manipulate. Elon has as least 200 times Trump’s wealth. Trump peddles Bibles, tennis shoes. trading cards and self portraits. What would he do for $10 BILLION?
Yet even with that, the Trump campaign was outspent by Mrs Emhoff and her minions.
Our socialist from St Louis doesn’t get it: President Trump has all the money he needs. He’s not a huge industrialist/developer/whatever like Mr Musk, and knows that he’ll be filthy rich right up until the day he croaks. He likes his stuff, but hasn’t gone nuts over it the way Jeff Bezos has since he dumped Mackenzie Scott for Lauren Sanchez. He’ll be perfectly happy in the White House, with all of the presidential trappings, and if he survives another four years, he’ll be happy enough back at Mar-a-Lago.
Rimjob’s just upset that life as he knows it will end on January 20.
All the political prisoners will be released from Merrick Garland’s gulag and boy will they be looking for some payback. Especially in Affton, MO.
Be afraid, fatboy!!!
Be very afraid.
Our fascist from Fayette doesn’t get it. Big Donnie may have all the money he needs, but hardly all he wants. Why sell Bibles and basketball shoes?
Yes, he’s and old man and happy to stay out of prison for all his felonies. He is already arranging building a Trump Tower in Saudi Arabia! Our Prime Minister Elon has billion dollar financial deals in China that should make one suspicious of his motives. Poor old Jimmy Carter had to sell his little peanut farm!
Donnie is a scammer, the PT Barnum of politics, full of shit.
The American right has always favored ‘strongmen’ – and in today’s world BILLIONAIRE equals ‘strongman’. This explains the right’s adoration of The Donald – not policy, not ideology. But he plays to the prejudices of the right, your discomfort with foreigners, gays, trans, migrants, blacks, Muslims, homeless, atheists… He wants to make America like it used to be. Renaming mountains, drill baby drill, seizing the Panama Canal, buying Greenland, eschewing all efforts to stop AGW, insulting our neighbors…
Yet, he wants to end the debt ceiling, the mainstay of conservatism to restrict spending. Ending the debt ceiling has been a Dem staple. He’s flip-flopped on EVs. About the auto industry: “These jobs they’ll become roaring back. We’re going to be making autos at a level like you’ve never seen before. We’re going to be making cars bigger, better, more beautiful, stronger, faster than ever before.”
Unless they rape someone, few incels (the mass of conservacommenters) have a stake in the future so they treat their lifespan as Earth’s. To those with children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren the future is actually of some significance. So the science deniers can pound sand as well as their puds.
“Denying science” What science? First of all, a difference of opinion isn’t “denying” anything. It’s simply a low-info way to try and stifle debate.