Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

jag999 This review had been deleted due to a report of "abuse" by another reader. Typically, there is no argument, just a report to authorities of "abuse", where there is none. Sadly, nowadays, having an opinion that looks at things from a different perspective is reported by the ignorant as abuse. More sadly, those that review the complaint agree with the complainant, again, where there is no "abuse".Visual depiction, things change. There has been more CO2 in the air in the past, the earth survived. There are natural mechanisms that deal with CO2. What natural mechanism deals with the dumping of tons and tons of barium, aluminum, thorium, cadmium, chromium, and nickel in our skies? If you're interested in thinking outside the CO2 box, check out multiple internet sites related to 'chemtrails' or 'geoengineering' that I'm not allowed to cite here.Example: "For more than a decade, first the United States and then Canada's citizens have been subjected to a 24/7/365 day aerosol assault over our heads made of a toxic brew of poisonous heavy metals, chemicals, and other dangerous ingredients. None of this was reported by any mainstream media."Rather, planes (fitted with special nozzles) release aerosols "lines" in the sky that do not evaporate. At first, these lines are thin; but soon they expand and, in a short time, merge together. Our once-blue sky has vanished and has been replaced by a grayish-white toxic haze that blots out and greatly diminishes our usual sunshine.

eddie_baggins Chasing Ice joins the list of growing environmental themed documentary's (see also An Inconvenient Truth, A Crude Awakening, Who Killed The Electric Car etc) that look to highlight the effect global warming is having on our fragile planet. Ice presents an insightful look into a particular aspect of this issue or non-issue if you see fit that while interesting isn't particularly involving.Ice Centres its story on National Geographic photographer James Balog. Director Jeff Orlowski (who made the fantastic and somewhat scarier documentary The Cove) follows Balog and his crew's quest to document for the first time over a period of years the decline of some of the world's glaciers and ice capped territories from Greenland to America. The journey this crew of men take is a brave and commendable effort but as a film Ice just doesn't feel that structured or interested in making you the viewer feel a part of the mission. A major plus for Ice and an undeniable scary beauty is the images it captures both through Balog's lens and through Orlowski's filmmaking eye. The viewer is in no doubt that what is being captured by these men and therefore witnessed through this film is haunting, one particular segment of night time images is sure to make the most jaded of viewer stand up and take notice. Being nominated in the best documentary category in this year's Oscars ceremony it's clear Ice struck a chord with viewers and critics alike. At a short running time of 70 minutes Ice never outstays its welcome and provides another intriguing look into the Earth as we know it today. 3 and a half icicles out of 5For more reviews and movie opinions check out – www.jordanandeddie.wordpress.com

SnoopyStyle National Geographic photographer James Balog wanted to test his skepticism about climate change. With his Extreme Ice Survey, he was able to photograph undeniable changes in some glaciers. In this documentary, Balog deploys a series of time-lapse cameras to capture a long term visual record of the world's changing glaciers. The lengths to which this is accomplished is mind boggling.It's a compelling watch and an important work. But it's the shocking final result that will amaze you. The visual of these glaciers actually melting right before your eyes will shake you to your core as it did to me.

evening1 Ever wonder how the Titanic iceberg got there? It's believed it broke off of a specific glacier in Iceland. "Calving" continues, only it's happening at a faster pace than ever before. These days ships aren't the main object of concern -- but rather the survival of everything that needs air to breathe.That's the message of this visually dazzling documentary from National Geographic photographer James Balog. He argues that rising levels of carbon create atmospheric warming that is destroying the world's great ice sheets.Softening, receding glaciers are raising sea levels so rapidly it's believed that 150 million people -- roughly equal to half the population of the United States -- will become displaced this century.Balog presents awe-inspiring pictorial documentation for the shrinkage of ice shelves in Greenland, Iceland, Alaska, and Montana. At one point, we witness a vast and craggy terrain collapsing into a roiling cauldron of ice soup. Balog and his team put their lives at considerable risk to capture such amazing sequences. Part of the interest in this film is the somewhat obsessive personality of Balog, who battles extreme weather conditions to complete this self-imposed task as well as a bum knee that doesn't take well to clambering up ice mountains and rappelling back down.Balog wants the world to know that radical environmental changes are happening as you read this. The time is past, he argues, to debate whether global warming is real.His message is urgent, and everyone should take heed.