dullatron

Saw this on Sundance and it wasn't bad but was a little more hippieish and disjointed than I expected. If you're looking for a primer on peak oil, I'd definitely recommend "Collapse" before seeing this. Then this is a worthy counterpart to follow the detailing of the problem by humanizing it and discussing some potential solutions. It's definitely the more hopeful, if less polished, of the two films. Perhaps my ambivalence toward this documentary is intensified by the fact that, as it seems to me, the problem of declining fossil fuels and humans' relative inability to adjust and adapt seem like intractable, unsolvable problems. And it's also probably unfair to expect a low-budget documentary to present definitive solutions to those problems rather than vignettes about how people are trying to cope and deal with this -- localizing food sources, conserving fuel, looking into alternative fuels and so on. Anyway, worth a look, especially if you're already convinced of the problem -- that we're arriving at (if not already past) levels of peak oil production and consumption, and that the world, its economies and our lives as we know it are going to change within our lifetimes.

I mean to tape this sometime along with "The First To Go" and watch with my friends a double-feature of astonishingly bad movies. I don't know if they'd hate me for it afterward though. Everyone is either shrieking her lines or chewing the scenery in this movie, grimacing painfully and overacting like it was their last dramatic job on Earth. Come to think of it, for some of these people it probably was. And if you want to read a working definition of a shill, it's the earliest comment in this thread. You'll never again see such a nakedly transparent endorsement. It had to be a family member, friend or agent, if not the actress herself. Wow ... wait till there are a couple of other posts first, huh?