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I didn't see it in the theatre, but I did see it. I thought it was odd that so many neo-liberals (I'm an extreme leftist) flocked out in droves to the theater to see it. My partner had the idea that they should have put "Ride your bike to come see this move!" on the movie posters.

I as well was already an environmentalist and the movie did not change my life. It seemed like it praised Al Gore WAY too much for my taste. I really seemed agenda-pushing (not a word - I know) to me.

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I wasn't an environmentalist before and I think of myself as politically independent, but after seeing A.I.T. on DVD I was pretty convinced of the science behind climate change (the graph showing the relationship between temperature and CO2 levels going back 650,000 years and the ginormous spike in the levels in our current time was what did it for me). Since then I've been doing everything I can reasonably do to change the way I live that's better for the planet.

I didn't see the movie as being an "end of the world we're all going to die!" scare-fest (and I don't buy into Gore's 'Climate Crisis' fearmongering). I saw it as a wake-up call that we need to do something.

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It was as much of a documentary as a Michael Moore film.

BTW, Gore used fake ice melting shots to sensationalize his point. The shots were phony and taken from the movie, The Day After Tomorrow.

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I saw it, but it didn't really make me change my way of life. I just don't get affected by films like that.

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i saw "an inconvenient truth" and liked it despite its blatant dramatization. could there be any more shots of gore pretending to compile all his power point slides?

see "the 11th hour" instead. the conclusions drawn by those interviewed are even scarier than gore's but the movie is very well done. it's also a less self aggrandizing.

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Why would I even want to see this movie? It just tells me a lot of things I already know. (And besides, there's no nudity or violence.)

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It changed mine. I dropped out of music school, came home and went into green architecture. :)

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i haven't seen it because i don't want to spend money to rent it or see it in theaters just to have to sit there for an hour and a half or more of people yelling at me because using my hair spray is killing poor little penguins (fyi i use pump spray hair spray, just needed an example). plus i dont want to have to decide whether or not it's a publicity stunt. i've heard it makes some good points, but my social studies teacher told us that for the scene w/ the polar bear stranded on the iceberg, after they were done filming the bear jumped off the little chunk of ice and swam right back to the mainland (again idk if its true, this is just what i've heard)

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