The Age of Stupid

2009
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Released: 21 September 2009 Released
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Official Website: http://www.ageofstupid.net
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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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Ersbel Oraph Shell pays a PR company to paint them well.This is a group of social media hacks making money and selling their wares. If you don't believe look at the reviews. Most good reviews have many likes and come from fake accounts.This is a piece of junk. Like Zeitgeist, The Age of Stupid is a big work of montage to serve a religion in the hope of getting paid for preaching. It caters to a sectarian movement. Like the Christian or Muslim sects, the eco crowd I know prefers putting others through slavery and hunger, never themselves.So save your time and money and get a book from somebody who knows there is a climate change and not from some social media informed believes.Contact me with Questions, Comments or Suggestions ryitfork @ bitmail.ch
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.
5h4d0w ... and also thanks to the ratings and comments on the message board. (i want to point out that there was a lot more negative ratings/comments about this movie when i first reviewed it)the film shows multiple stories which cover different aspects of how people contribute climate change and how they are affected in return. the nice thing is that it isn't a emotionally distanced documentary that just shows the results in a rather cold manner but also shows motivations of people and parts of their personal life.a similar assumption to the one being made at the end of "diary of the dead" is being made in this movie: maybe humanity isn't worth saving. this thought is underlined by examples of ignorant and egotistical people.some here say the movie is preachy - i think it is not preachy enough. you can't break the brainwashing of stupidity outlets like fox news with just showing facts. there should be texts saying "YOU are killing people right now". well, maybe not quite as harsh but still... the majority of the people need a metaphorical slap in the face to wake them up.which brings me to the way in which this movie has changed my thoughts (and behavior). while watching these idiots protest a wind farm because their precious "view" might be destroyed, something finally clicked. i always knew that the majority of people are like that but the thing is - there is no appealing to them. their comfort is more important than anything else. and because of that, humanity truly deserves to perish. i've always tried to help and my biggest goal in life was to somehow improve life for people - but i now realize that they don't deserve it.
Framescourer This is a good documentary. As agitprop, it's raised to the level of a must-see by the sharp manner in which honest, location documentary footage is intercut with a meticulously built up store of pertinent images and some really rather good animation (I had already seen a making-of video concerning the animation and it's actually better than I was expecting).Clearly, the 'gold'-standard for a polemic documentary such as this is the work of Michael Moore. For me this film is a cut above his oeuvre as there is a greater internal consistency about it. The voice-over is better tempered, a news- like patter delivered by a clearly on-board Pete Postlethwaite (although I didn't like Fanny Armstong's contrivance-curdled script with which he was saddled). Still, with the film rolling out at its own pace, the stories accrue credibility and one can see the clear difference between a blinkered oligarch-assumptive (Jeh Wadia) and the likes of Layefa Malini, a class apart in her poverty but a cut above in her optimism and positive humanity. 6/10