The Rageahol-Fueled Car
Marie and I went for a double-whammy of liberal porn this week, seeing both An Inconvenient Truth and Who Killed the Electric Car? with some other like-minded, effete Berkeleyans. And boy are we outraged!
Actually, both were highly enjoyable, but I was especially fond of the ... Electric Car, which was one of the better documentaries I've ever seen, though I've seen embarassingly few. Al Gore gives a good talk, to be sure. I wanted to see real numbers on more of his ordinates, but all-in-all it was some excellent powerpointery, (and I can say that in full confidence, having seen an ever-growing number of exceedingly bad powerpoint presentations). And of course, it's an incredibly important message which everyone should think about seriously, but for my movie dollar the EV-1 is just too cute to be denied. While it's a similar tale of corruption and greed, Electric Car remains lighthearted with a more redeeming ending. The good guys just might kind-of win, you think, and GM's comeupance seems all but assured. Contrast this to Doomsday Al, who leaves us with the sobering message that we might... just maybe... if we try hard enough... keep everyone from dying. Hardly the feel-good movie of the summer.
Anyhow - two thumbs way up to Electric Car. There's no mention of the Stonecutters, (highly suspicious!), but Mel Gibson is sporting *the* 2006 Beard of Summer.
And with that, I end my months-late movie commentary. It's been swell.
Comments
powerpointery
Keynotery, actually. The whole movie was more or less an ad for Apple (Gore sits on its board). I've heard that he actually had the Keynote programming team introduce new features in order to accomodate his talk, as it evolved over the years.
Posted by: tom | July 31, 2006 07:42 AM
Well... yeah. You could never make something that looked that good in powerpoint. But as verbs go, I think "powerpointery" encompasses all slideshow based software. At least, that's how I roll.
Posted by: jeff | July 31, 2006 08:55 AM