The Age of Stupid

2009
7| 1h32m| en
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The Age of Stupid is the new movie from Director Franny Armstrong (McLibel) and producer John Battsek (One Day In September). Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated future world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?

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Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.
VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.
Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.
blissdragon I have deeply studied the climate science, and have been presenting this information publicly. I had no idea there was a movie already made about this...the new time lines of the climate crisis are precisely conveyed by this movie. In a way that is *accessible*. And that is even entertaining. This is humanity's very last chance to redeem himself to the planet/nature/god (call it what you will). As a species, we are flunking out. Of course, there are plenty of comments below about the preposterousness of climate science. These commenters have been hornswoggled by the propaganda of the right wing of American politics, and their funding fathers, the fossil fuel corporations. These commenters know not what they spew.
acronim Well , This is that kind of a movie that you are going to come away with a feeling of responsibility. And its not plain brainwashed kind of responsibility , its something we all know in our gut , we need to do .The movie is about global warming , with some of the best editing I have seen in a documentary , with real nifty 2d animation . I have to say , this movie was made with passion . It is a mission statement. You might find the director picking on a few big names , and though that might seem like nitpicking on a few big bad corporations , I think thats okay . You really cant find time to to go after every big corporation house. The beauty of the movie is - set in the future , we are recalling one bad decision after another , and all made by the 1 % of the population of the planet. The rich and the powerful .The movie shows who is to blame . And we all know who they are . It just nudges us to act to not play the blame game , but to start solving the problem at hand. "I just find it surprising that after so much effort the final act of our existence should be suicide. " ----> Possibly the best written sentence in the movie, that sums everything up nicely. Very good movie.A must watch
Framescourer This is a good documentary. As agitprop, it's raised to the level of a must-see by the sharp manner in which honest, location documentary footage is intercut with a meticulously built up store of pertinent images and some really rather good animation (I had already seen a making-of video concerning the animation and it's actually better than I was expecting).Clearly, the 'gold'-standard for a polemic documentary such as this is the work of Michael Moore. For me this film is a cut above his oeuvre as there is a greater internal consistency about it. The voice-over is better tempered, a news- like patter delivered by a clearly on-board Pete Postlethwaite (although I didn't like Fanny Armstong's contrivance-curdled script with which he was saddled). Still, with the film rolling out at its own pace, the stories accrue credibility and one can see the clear difference between a blinkered oligarch-assumptive (Jeh Wadia) and the likes of Layefa Malini, a class apart in her poverty but a cut above in her optimism and positive humanity. 6/10
lheckerman Another arrogant, falling sky interpretation of climate change. Don't waste your cash unless you are one to kneel at the alter of prophet Gore. I believe that we need to be good stewards of this planet to preserve it for future generations, but the planet itself will kick our butts without any help from mankind. That's just the way it is and nothing can be done to stop it. In order to have any meaningful impact on climate change, you would need to change nature itself. Tilting at windmills comes to mind. The human race is not a virus and films like this perpetuate that extreme mindset. I new what to expect regarding the message and was hoping that the film would present an intelligent and entertaining perspective, but left the theater disappointed.