Bummer: Very Few Top Movies Mention Climate Doom

Well, why should they? What if they have nothing to do with global boiling? Are they supposed to just interject the cult for the heck of it? Just randomly have a character make a Speech?

Only 32 of the Top Movies in the Last Decade Say Climate Change Exists — Study

Last month, non-profit group Good Energy launched what it called a Bechdel Test for Climate Change, a simple set of criteria designed to determine if it was clear climate change was present in a film. The real Allison Bechdel even endorsed it.

Good Energy, in launching its “Climate Reality Check,” said just three movies nominated for Oscars this year passed the test’s two simple rules: “Climate change exists” and “a character knows it.” Now in a more extensive study, the group analyzed 250 of the top grossing movies between 2013 and 2022.

Global warming has been with us for a while now, but only 12.8 percent — 32 of the 250 films studied in that time span — even passed the first criteria saying that climate change exists. Only 24 films, or 9.6 percent, passed both criteria of the test.

Good Energy and researchers at Colby College’s Buck Lab for Climate and Environment picked 25 films from each year between 2013 and 2022, looking at the total number of IMDB ratings to determine the most popular. They only looked at fictional films, not documentaries, and they filtered out any that weren’t set in the modern day or the near future, which includes films set after the year 2006, before the year 2100, and ones that are actually set on Earth. So no, Westerns, period pieces, and intergalactic sci-fis are excluded from needing characters to be aware of climate change.

Better yet, why is this important? Why was it necessary to do this study? It pretty much shows that this is a doomsday cult.

In fact, only six of the 32 movies had three or more scenes in which climate change was mentioned. The winner with six scenes was “Happy Death Day” (2017), which because of a “Groundhog Day” style repeating day syndrome, the character has to hear over and over again from an activist about saving the environment. Bong Joon-Ho and Christopher Nolan were the only two filmmakers who had two movies that each passed one of the criteria, “Parasite” and “Snowpiercer” and “Tenet” and “Interstellar.”

I looked it up: they’re talking about the environment in Happy Death Day, not Hotcoldwetdry. Great movie, BTW. There’s a short list at the link with the movies that passed both cult criteria, and, really, a good chunk had nothing to do with it, like “Midsommar,” “Marriage Story,” “Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw,” “Pokemon: Detective Pikachu” in 2019. But, this is a cult.

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