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Wildfires in Hollywood (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 18 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Movies are important aspect of the culture

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 16 hours ago (5 children)

The Day After Tomorrow had a dude that was basically a stand-in for Dick Cheney so Dennis Quaid could tell him that he should have done more sooner.

Waterworld, earth covered in water after the ice caps melted.

Geostorm took for granted that we needed a global network of satellites to battle climate change.

And who can forget The Happening or Birdemic?

Oh, you wanted good movies? (tho I lowkey love Geostorm)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

Not even a mention of Happy Feet. C'mon. Lol

This is a great though, and if anything, yeah, "pollution apocalypse" has become such a common trope at this point it's almost lazy writing now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Pretty much, the problem is Hollywood can only choose between "Make a good movie" or "Have a good message", when "Make an entertaining movie that deliver the message without being overly preachy" was always an option, gaming does it all the time. (Which is probably why Video Game Movies are such big money makers now)

PS: Waterworld is sadly the best movie you've listed here, TDAT is the second best.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

One of the reasons I love Spec Ops: The Line. It’s marketed to the correct crowd. The exact type of person that needs to understand killing your way through a situation rarely works is the one who will see the cover and think “Aw cool, a shooting game about killing your way through an adventure”.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 hours ago

Don't forget wall-e

[–] [email protected] 26 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Many people forget that the reason everybody is trying to find a new planet in interstellar, is because climate change made theirs unhabitable.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago

Also the inciting incident to the 'verse of Firefly:

Mal: "Here's how it is: (The) Earth got used up, so we (moved out, and) terraformed a whole new galaxy of Earths, some rich and flush with new technologies, some not so much. (The) Central Planets, them as formed the Alliance, waged war to bring everyone under their rule; a few idiots tried to fight it, among them myself. I'm Malcolm Reynolds, captain of Serenity.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

Was it explicitly climate change? I thought it was “blight” or whatever fictional disease killing crops.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I thought Tomorrowland was good. Not great. But good enough.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

I actually really liked the premise behind that one, the idea that collectively since we flooded our entertainment with cynical grimdark media, we all just accepted that ill use of technology leading to an apocalypse was an inevitability, and apathy let it happen.

It was an interesting message that I would've liked to see in a different vehicle.