The Age of Stupid
The Age of Stupid
| 21 September 2009 (USA)
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The Age of Stupid is the new movie from Director Franny Armstrong (McLibel) and producer John Battsek (One Day In September). Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated future world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?

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GamerTab

That was an excellent one.

InformationRap

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

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Rio Hayward

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

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Neive Bellamy

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

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gottdeskinos

I didn't mind the sci-fi aspect of this documentary: Our narrator is a guy in a futuristic archive in the 2050's wondering how humanity got to this point. And then we see news clips and interviews from our time with people talking about big oil companies, natural disasters, observable climate change results, harsh living conditions and, ironically, a guy who wants to make flying in India dead cheap. The movie overall felt a bit unfocused, for example talking at one point about wars being fought over oil and then making a narrative jump to Iraqi kids talking about their wish to kill Americans to revenge their dad. Things like that gave the movie a weird political aspect that felt unnecessary - to my taste as a Central European anyway. But obviously this was made mostly for American audiences, where human- induced climate change is always a political issue as well.So, summing up: I support the cause of raising awareness for climate change and its potential consequences and it's good to show people how they can change their habits and have an impact. I liked the animation bits for that. But apart from that this movie will not deliver many new facts or aspects. And worst of all: A climate change denier will walk away from this movie probably with an unchanged opinion, because there are a lot of mixed messages. So, maybe we live in the age of stupid after all.

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delfranklin1969

The subject of climate change is often covered but rarely brought to the big screen. This ambitious low budget project is well worth viewing because it will make you think just that little more about how we're draining resources on earth.It's a neat idea. The late and much missed Pete Postlethwaite is an archivist who spends the entire film touching a computer screen showing us reasons why the planet ended up in such a desolate state in 2055.Interlaced with six separate documentary stories covering various aspects of climate change are snippets of news recordings, social commentary and animation hybrid. It all works rather well, your interest is kept high and the stories all work the grey matter into overdrive. All held together by Postlethwaite who in reality has very little to do but does it rather well nonetheless. Most certainly worth a watch and just may well tempt you to try reduce your carbon emission. A good effort all round.

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Erwin Wolff

I can be quick on this one. It is a typically "smug liberal" kind of movie where you're go in the movie as a normal person and come out of it as a hippie anti-war anti-America watermelon -green from the outside, red from the inside- liberal.I saw it accidentally here on Dutch public television. And what a shame it was. The public broadcasters broadcasting propaganda that could have have been produced by the former Sovjet Union. However the level of speculation in the movie is so high that I doubt anyone will take it serious (except smug liberals). Although Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth is obviously exaggerated, at the very least there is some scientific evidence to support it. This movie is pure propaganda because it displays a future that is pure the speculation of some hippies.And nobody should see it. Be warned for a wasted afternoon or evening if you do.

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GulforDie

Thank The Heavens!! If films like this and al gore are the force behind committing economic suicide then rest assured my follow friends who posses commonsense....we are safe for now! What a self serving holy then thou piece of nonsense this film is. It seeks only to provoke emotion and all commonsense is regarded as being evil earth hating thoughts. You may think this film will only serve to excite the disciples of global warming, but in fact it does much more.....It proves (to the independent thinker) how far the religion of global warming has come, this movie will scare most into avoiding the cult not joining it!!!

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