The ugly side of fracking barely showed it's polluted head in this film... Star power can be quite influential and often brings much needed public attention to important matters. Unfortunately this film missed the mark...
shareI highly suspect the intention of the filmmakers was to do anything except make a few bucks.
shareI'll bet the original intention was to make it black and white. The oil companies are evil, they want to screw people over and destroy the land. Once they delved into the issue, it became clear that most natural gas areas have a minimal environmental impact when done properly.
My reaction was the opposite. I thought it was going to have a liberal bend. I really think Damon, the Office guy and Van Sant realized that making the characters black and white did not paint a proper picture of the issue.
My respect for the filmmakers went up a notch especially since Hollywood has never had a problem making movies about corporate profit or environmental waste just as long as its not depicting Hollywood profit or Hollywood waste. How many homes does Matt Damon have? What kind of environmental impact does that have? And he is one of the good ones.
I disagree. When I first saw it I thought it was fairly mediocre 'message' movie, but I saw it again recently and I've decided they did a very good... as good as could be done... job of making the case without turning everyone into complete caricatures.
This is a VERY tough kind of movie to make. The arguments on both sides are compelling.
The idea is to change hearts and minds. If you please the people who already 'believe' you'll just alienate everyone else. NOBODY wants to be lectured to these days.
The ugly side of fracking barely showed it's polluted head in this film...I agree, but it's kind of funny reading your comment, whilst noting on a couple of the other threads posters are claiming the movie is all part of a dastardly socialist, environmentalist conspiracy. LOL!