[ABC] AOC climate change film flops, makes roughly $80 per theatre on opening weekend

I thought this bit about Dave Chappelle was appropriate

I’m like a lot of people in that I watch a latter-day Chappelle special in the naive hope that I’ll get an unfettered hour of his old genius without him half-assedly turning his set into a free speech rally for assholes. Outside of 8:46, which is some of the best standup I’ve heard from Chappelle or any other comedian, my hopes are always dashed. The clip you see above is representative of what we almost always get instead. Chappelle comes out, tells the audience, “Hey man, remember my old Comedy Central show?” and then everyone claps, and then he goes, “Remember when all the gays were mad at me? Well I blame Y’ALL for that.” And then I roll my eyes so forcefully that my optic nerves detach. I watched Chappelle’s last Netflix special and it wasn’t even a standup special. It was him receiving a ******* award from his ****ing high school, and it opens with this epigram, courtesy of Duke Ellington:

“Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: When it ceases to be dangerous you don’t want it.”

Now that’s a great quote, and a true one. But it loses its shine when Dave Chappelle uses it as his surreptitious defense for gleefully screaming “F****T” at the top of his lungs in one of his earlier Netflix specials. That’s the art that this fossil finds so dangerous, and Chappelle steadfastly refuses to excise this counterfeit reverse outrage from his bit in favor of legitimately good material. He’s ****ing hopeless now. Washed up. A hack. Watching Chappelle live in 2022 is like waiting for your uncle to bring up AOC at Christmas dinner. You know it’s coming, you’re just hoping he does it when you’re taking a piss.​

 

Given that nobody here knew it was coming out, or was being created in the first place, I would say the marketing was next to nothing and relied on social media from AOC mostly. Then there is the film itself which seems to be mostly interviews, excerpts from CSPAN and clips from events. Not necessarily a big budget Avatar 5 Summer blockbuster.

So I doubt they care about movie theaters earnings honestly and probably only factored in streaming which is where something like this would have a home. It looks like something that would be produced by CNN for a Friday night special.. and that’s not really a put down because often their specials are quite good, but many of us have lives so we don’t spend our weekends watching political documentaries.

So that’s to say the burn the OP is looking for here is not what he think it is. The fact that a doc like this even made it into the theaters is a hallmark achievement… or it says a lot about how few films are being released at the moment. Usually this time of year we are flooded with amazing movies because of the Oscar push. The film industry really must be in a dire state.

I like AOC, and would watch a doc about her probably… but I don’t really need to spend 2 hours of my life watching CSPAN replays on the Green New Deal. In the end Biden delivered by doing DC the Biden Classic DC making way and he was the one strong arming Joe Manchin and Kirsten Sinema… not AOC. I don’t think Biden cares much about the activists coming after him… I think he actually just cares enough himself to get a bill done which he did. The activists were important but the science is really what spoke volumes.

 

This article says absolutely nothing - no facts or data - it's just ramblings of an individual who played the role of contrarian to get her 15 minutes of fame that has now flamed out.

Anyone can cry out that "it's uncertain" and "we just don't know" for a decade plus but in 2022 the data doesn't fit that narrative. Thus she is reduced to writing this sort of stuff. I can't believe people still readh this stuff. She's now basically saying its all mass hysteria lol. Guess she got her PhD of neuroscience as well.

 

You can debate policy all you want. You can criticize liberals for using planes or driving Jeeps, or eating beef. That's totally legit.

But for me, the whole thing loses credibility when people start trying to muddle reality. Whatever you want to BELIEVE, the REALITY is that mankind is raising CO2, is the PRIMARY driver of the CO2 increase, and yes, that CO2 increase is DRAMATICALLY changing our climate.

This is FACT. It's not stubbornness, arrogance, or bad science. We've long crossed the point of 5 sigma on this one - it's as factual as gravity at this point.

 

I don't get it then. If we caused this mess, certainly we have the capacity to start cleaning it up.

 

@Xerobull

 

I'd think B relates directly to C & D, no?

As for A...I don't know why young people are having all this fear. Maybe because they realize they are inheriting a far less stable world and stability is something older generations took for granted. No, no one knows the future for sure, but to think that well things can't get worse because in the past people who said it would were wrong isn't exactly the best reasoning.

I don't think the answer is to guilt people for taking flights or eating meat or driving a Jeep. Clearly personal lifestyle choices aren't going to impact the coming crisis. I'm not a believer in collective shared sacrifice because I know humans just don't work that way at a mass scale.

What is the line between fear mongering and building legitimate awareness of a major problem? I don't know, but it seems to me that the focus shouldn't be on that but rather what are the steps we can take to make sure fears never become realized on both ends. We don't want to live in a world of instability caused by climate change and we don't want to live in a world that is economically stunted by draconian policy.

 

If I spammed the GARM with a dozen threads about how I think TyTy should be the starting PG I think it would be safe to assume that I think KPJ and Nix aren’t great starting point guards.

You aren’t a very complicated enigma dude.

 

I don't think raising awareness about what is happening is fear-mongering. People who say they aren't having children because of the climate crisis are lying. I know a lot of these people. They just don't want to have kids and it's a great rationalization. Saying things that are not true is fear mongering. But the potential impacts from climate change are very real.

Because we created a problem collectively, and we have to solve this problem collectively. Individual action is not going to solve it. Nor it trying to impose restrictions on people in democratically elected (or even authoritarian) gov'ts. It doesn't work as a practical solution. Rationale people understand this. If you don't listen to the crazies on either side, you'll see a rational approach. That's what is needed. That's what is being advocated for.

An alarm should be raised. But the reaction to that alarm isn't to get depressed and feel the future isn't worth living. The alarm should be to find solution to the problems we face. Why do we need to run from challenges because one side fears it will cost them their way of life and another side fears there is no hope no matter what????

We've got to find a way to lower the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. It's a technological problem that will require smart policy. Will there need to be some sacrifice? Perhaps, but not to the level people think if we address the problem and take action sooner than later. One way or the other the impacts of this is going to be felt. But if we want to enjoy our way of life amongst a planet driving towards 10 billion people or whatever it is, we have to start addressing the problem versus debating whether or not it's giving us depression.

 

"Mess" is overloaded in the sense that the proof in our over-pollution of global eco systems extends beyond the dumping of greenhouse gases.

So you could categorize the "mess" into three buckets greenhouse gas emissions, rapid expansion of people into previously pristine biomes, and the pollution/waste caused by urban/industrial/agricultural development.

Compartmentalizing one of the three is standard for this type of debate but all three are individually complex and interconnected.

"Solving climate change" by returning to climate patterns seen decades ago won't necessarily stem the decades long species collapse happening before our eyes, but it sure as hell will reduce the rate it's happening