I mean they did.
Don't Look Up was huge. It had an all-star, ensemble cast and was one of the biggest releases of 2021.
How many times do you expect them to best the drum?
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)
Don't forget wall-e
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.
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.
The room next door is an "assisted cancer suicide" personal movie, but has as punchline that US empire climate terrorism justifies suicide.
Not to mention the entire series of “Scorcher” movies, starring the famous Tugg Speedman.
If anything they beat the drum too much, I didn't see "Don't Look Up", because of Trump Fatigue. Like so much media from 2015-2020 that got made had one note, and that note was "Orange Man Bad", and I'm like "I know, I couldn't be more aware that orange man bad. I did everything I could to stop it, but Americans are idiots."
It's like.. I get it everything is fucked. You can stop blasting the despair in my face any second now.
Like I'm actually glad Hazbin Hotel got delayed for so long, because I just know Adam was basically just "Donald Trump with a harp and a halo" in an earlier draft, there's no way in literal Hell he wasn't.
Learned a new term the other day, The Doomscroll Industrial Complex
And the message went completely over the heads of the people it needed to reach.
the message went completely over the heads of the people it needed to reach
You had a series of very cynical and deliberately manipulative media coverage of the film which tried to spin it as anything but a climate change movie. And then you had a bunch of "man on the street" pieces intended to make viewers appear stupid.
But the core theory of media influenced economic change is rooted in the idea that a movie can shift people from their profit motives. No oil executive is going to watch a slapstick comedy and decide to shift his business's core financial model because of a few jokes. No bank executives are going to divest from carbon emitting industries because some Hollywood starlets made fun of them. No senior member of political leadership is going to change how mining permits and environmental regulations are written because Adam McKay posted big numbers at the box office.
The Network didn't change how Americans consumed their news media. Soylent Green didn't cause Americans to reconsider our policies on factory farming. Jarhead didn't cause any military personal to exit Iraq or Afghanistan. The only movie that seems to have really moved the dial on public policy is Idiocracy, the inspiration behind Elon Musk and Peter Thiel's quest to get more IT people to fuck.
Pretty much, see the endless amount of idiots who unironically see themselves as the antagonist and think it's a good thing.
(Trump's kids unfavorably comparing the Left to the Resistance in the newer Star Wars films which very blatantly had the First Order be a stand-in for America's Alt Right and Kylo Ren a warning about toxic masculinity, now that's something I'll never forget)
How many times do you expect them to best the drum?
*gestures at all the recycled crap hollywood puts out.
I tried to watch that movie. But I quit it 15 minutes in.
What was even the point? It wasn't funny, it wasn't enjoyable, it wasn't dramatic.
It's like "look, here is a blatantly obvious metaphor on climate change" that's our whole movie.
It seemed aimed for a very particular subset of people that wanted to feel a pat on the head or something. I feel like it's the same people who enjoy that big ass climate change doom clock.
Just too much virtue signalling for my taste. Without actually making anything useful.
Your comment is now an extension of that movie’s plot.
It probably needs a movie where red cap wearing idiots are made angry and Farquaated repeatedly in increasingly ludicrous ways before any sinks in.
Yes, because we haven't been calling them fools for years, maybe we should try it! Maybe it'll work and not just drive them further and further away from sanity out of spite!
I agree that the mocking approach doesn’t work in terms of enacting change. I’m still in favor of it for our own sakes just because it’s fun.
Americans love nothing more than to wallow in their own filth while pointing and laughing at their neighbors.
I am smart. You are dumb. That's why we're in this mess together.
Maybe some climate change disaster movies are a good idea to make actually
Plus, disaster movies are fun
I'm trying to get it, and it isn't working, and I'm thinking maybe it's not me.
The author appears to erroneously think that regular people who watch movies are most responsible for climate change, as opposed to corporations.
Road Warrior
The Road
Telling myself that this is metaphorical and not some boomer taken in by the AI images of the Hollywood sign burning to keep myself from going on an unhinged rant about the exact location of Hollywood, the Hollywood sign, and the fires.
Me: I wish life was like a movie
Also me: Not that fucking movie.
Kinda wish mine was a cartoon, but not a political cartoon. I mean the kind where everyone has an unlimited food budget, no one dies or gets seriously hurt they're just brusied for a scene then fine the next, and I can make my tits bigger by plugging air hoses to my nipples.
Sadly I live in a political cartoon, I hope my nightmarish existence is serving a good purpose, but I have feeling it's a Chick Tract from 1962 about how the future year of 2025 will be full of ignorance and vice because America was mad enough to elect a gasp Catholic for President the previous year. Why? Because I'm a transchick accustomed to tragedy, full of imposter syndrome, full of paranoia, and constantly disgusted with my own existence. So a Chick Tract about how evil, crazy, and sinful I am scans.
If you're listening pen that draws my existence. JFK was actually quite based, and he was assassinated by the CIA for trying to shut down the Federal Reserve and establish single player, it's not too late to become a furry and do a wacky story about how I turned into a fat-assed foxlady because I ate at a chinese buffet ran by a mischevious Kitsune.
Yes I know Kitsune are Japanese and Chinese Buffets are Chinese... Well they're not REALLY Chinese because Chinese Food in America and what people eat in China are vastly different, I just really like Chinese food and... don't know Chinese animals well enough to... oh wait, pleasantly plump lazy panda, I could work with that.
Ya listening to me you demonically devoted demiurge?
The fires that couldn't stop (there's a bus in this one too)
80mph, a story of fire and destruction
The fire tornado...what could happen if all them sharks burst into flames
Smoke. A horror film of what is left.
Just a few titles. Just trying to help.
The Fallout TV series is a rather explicit jab at Big Oil.
People were pretty upset about it too. Also, it was good.
Shoulda voted for a Republican mayor
Why? So that he could sell marshmellows to the people who lost their houses to the fire?
