None Like it Hot

Tuesday nights are once again movie nights. Until Nu Metro begin an initiative similar to Cinema Nouveau (Prive shows the same fils in larger seats), it seems like this will be an almost regular thing. I was running late and had to postpone seeing Little Miss Sunshine until next week. Instead, we saw An Inconvenient Truth.

I've seen quite a lot about the film, being that we carry the book at our store, that I saw Al Gore on Conan O'Brien, and that there have been a few things on T.V. about it. About ten minutes into the film I was surprised to see an excerpt from Futurama featured. Since I regard Futurama as the single greatest animated show in existence, it's needless to say that I enjoyed the reference. I re-watched the episode that it was taken from and I saw that featured "the inventor of the environment and first Emperor of the Moon" Al Gore's head.

He isn't the only celebrity to have guest starred as their disembodied-selves in the series either. My favourites are Stephen Hawking, The Beastie Boys, Lucy Liu, Beck and Conan O'Brien. "Good news everyone", gotfuturama.com reported that there are new episodes in the works. If this turns out to be rumours then at least I'll get a fix from the four planned DVD movies being produced.

Upon further reading, I found that Matt Groening et al. had produced a trailer for An Inconvenient Truth. As the person that initiated all of the recycling that we do in my home, I have a few conflicted feelings. I feel that Groening's treatment of the subject is a little too dismissive. It's perfectly fine when it's part of an episode because that is meant to be entertainment. I may be experiencing the whole thing in reverse though because I also see the need to raise awareness about the cause of global warming. If the trailer sells a few more tickets to the film then I'm at least happy about that. The film was shocking, I have to admit. I fear that the None Like it Hot excerpt may be more telling than it seems on first viewing. Will there be a "last minute fix" of half-measures to alleviate the problem? Still, I marvel at how different it could have been had Gore been inaugurated instead of Bush.


Go see An Inconvenient Truth.