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Director: David Guggenheim
Starring: Al Gore
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Buy An Inconvenient Truth on Amazon.com

Full disclosure: I am an unabashed Whee! Green! type (though not a BANANA-ist). I was introduced to Earth Day in 4th grade and attempted to start an environmental club shortly thereafter. My friends were thoroughly uninterested (“Let’s just enjoy the earth while it’s here, ok?”) so we settled for the good, old-fashioned Girls’ Club instead. Then I went to UW-Madison, aka the Berkeley of the Midwest, where people who don’t recycle are shunned. I’ve often thought “Save the Earth” was a misnomer for the movement, because the odds of us actually physically annihilating the planet are pretty slim, but what we’re going to wind up doing is rendering the planet inhospitable for our children and grandchildren. To be pro-environment is to be pro-human, in my book.

Anyways, that was all to say that me watching this movie is totally Al Gore preaching to the choir.

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Director: Bryan Singer
Starring: Brandon Routh, Kate Bosworth
Rating:
Buy Superman Returns on Amazon.com

Superman Returns met all my expectations for a hero/action/fantasy movie: cool visuals, a few good jokes, and pretty boys.

I also got a few bonuses.

I did not hate Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane. While she wasn’t quite the Lois Lane that I was expecting, she was surprisingly tolerable and even likeable at times.

This is in sharp contrast to Katie Holmes’s Rachel Dawson in Batman Begins, who had been onscreen all of five minutes when I decided I wanted her character dead so Batman could move onto someone who could actually play a determined, ambitious woman.

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Director: Morgan Spurlock
Rating:
Buy Supersize Me on Amazon.com

As I mentioned in my review of Fast Food Nation, I was having a McDonald’s craving the whole time I was watching this movie. The movie promotes the idea that McDonald’s is addictive, and I guess my craving would be evidence for that.

For those who don’t know the premise, Morgan Spurlock eats nothing but McDonald’s for 30 days straight, just to see what will happen to him. What happens is that his health goes south very quickly and reaches a point that doctors suggest is quite dangerous.

Morgan unabashedly hits McDonald’s from all sides with art, humor, statistics, interns, his vegan girlfriend, and a small army of doctors and other experts. The DVD special feature involving the magically non-rotting fries is highly amusing, if obviously aimed at getting you to associate McDonald’s food with mold, slime, and other forms of inedible disgustingness.

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