The Best -- And Worst -- Eco-Movies Of The Year

The best eco-movie of the year is Disney/Pixar's Wall-E -- easily one of the best movie dystopias ever. It ranks with Blade Runner, Brazil, A Clockwork Orange, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, the Matrix, Planet of the Apes, Soylent Green, and the first two Terminator movies.

Yes, Hollywood loves dystopias. Perhaps because it is one (okay, technically Hollywood is an anti-utopia).

The worst eco-movie of the year for me was Quantum of Solace. I had been somewhat hopeful upon learning the villain was a green-washing "eco-entrepreneur." But as a huge James Bond fan, I was quite disappointed. The writing and directing were dreadful, among the worst of the entire series. The story line was incoherent. The characters' motivations were opaque. And the direction of the action scenes suffered from the Jason Bourne syndrome -- way too much fast-cutting.

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See also:

::The Real Green Message Of "Quantum Of Solace"
::8 Movies Featuring the Environment: Time to Hibernate with DVDs

Comments

[Drjimmy72296]

12:40 AM on 12/30/2008

I don't get how anyone could call Quantum of Solace a bad James Bond movie. World Is Not Enough? Moonraker? Octopussy? View To A Kill? Those are awful, soul-killing movies that make you want to gouge your eyes out or at the very least go home and take a very long shower.

Wall-E was deep by Hollywood standards. Pretty much everything Pixar does is world's ahead of other studios.

[LMPE]

12:28 AM on 12/30/2008

"Wall-E"? Sorry, never saw it. I didn't see "Quantum of Solace" either; the James Bond movies died after Sean Connery left.

[LitDr2B]

11:04 PM on 12/29/2008

Wall-E was certainly a good, entertaining flick with something to think about. But I think it's going a bit way too far to put it in the same category as the very thought-provoking other dystopias that the article also names--especially Soylent Green. The short story upon which that film was based ("Make Room, Make Room" by Harry Harrison) is even more horrifying than its film reinterpretation.

[ynp7]

03:23 PM on 12/29/2008

Wall-E is most bullshit "eco-movie" I've seen. It's empty sloganeering pasted on top of a boring, paint-by-numbers Pixar film. After the first 30 minutes it becomes utterly terrible. If not for Seven Pounds it would have been the worst film I saw all year.