If I had to create a movie to discredit something in the general audiences mind - it would be similar to this. Just ridiculous movie- and even worse has Jake Gyllenhall and Dennis Quaid
The AMOC collapsing would definitely be catastrophic beyond imagination and is the right setting for an apocalypse film. I like that they were probably the first piece of mass media to take climate change seriously as an existential threat. I wish they hadn’t used instantly-dated CGI to depict that with disaster porn. Show westerners choosing between death by starvation or hypothermia. It would have worked well and meant something to environmentalists if they portrayed it like The Road but named the crisis.
For sure, hindsight is 20/20, the alarmism is there, but the backing logic makes it seem dated and easy to poke holes in.
But yeah- it’s disaster schlock- the actuality wouldn’t make for good television , a bit too depressing
I was too young then to actually understand the public debate, but I remember Al Gore being ridiculed to the same degree we’d currently shit on a flat earther for taking climate change seriously. It was so absurd that South Park mocked it with the same sincerity they currently mock Trump. Just mentioning climate change as an actual immediate threat to McMansions and SUVs was the equivalent of saying you’re a vegan now in terms of how hostilely people took you. Even if they completely missed the mark with tsunamis destroying Manhattan, and at this point it’s such a chaotic system that fuck if I know that won’t be some tertiary consequence of some denary climate process I can’t even name, the only movie I can think of since which had the same kind of theme was Don’t Look Up. Both fell really short in the execution of it but you can’t tackle climate change accurately without it being the most depressing film ever made. Come and See would be wholesome and uplifting compared to the truly adequate climate change film.
Yeeeeaaaaahhhhhh. It’s a real result of the times. My friends (who I’ve known since grade school) like to remind me of my ‘edgy’ anti climate-change phase as a pre-tween lmao. I’m now over a decade into a climate science career 😭 lol
making heaven on earth.all is right with the world
I was actually thinking about this movie the other day and I came to the opposite conclusion you did. I don’t remember the characters or the plot line but it’s one of the first mass market movies to ever visualize apocalyptic climate change and I think it deserves immense credit for the mental imprint its left on so many people even if few consciously attribute the visuals to their idea of climate change and just how terrifying it is
IMO, it hasn’t aged well movie-wise, which I think obscures its overall message. But it’s possible that as I was a child when it came out, I conflate it with Inconvenient Truth and the South Park interpretations enough to poison the well for all lol
The Cheney stand-in and Americans being climate refugees in Mexico were pretty funny.
I read this entire comment thread thinking it was about The Edge of Tomorrow and was ready for some juicy stuff like theorizing the capitalists actually have time travel and that’s how they put down revolutions
Never heard of that one somehow - gonna add it to the ol list though
It’s not amazing or anything but it is a cut above average sci-fi/action schlock
I like listening to Tom Cruise scream and die
We’re all parasocial enough here to know I’ll be asleep within the first 15 minutes of a movie anyway 😴
