More Like "I Need to Shut Up"

About a year ago when I first saw ads for An Inconvenient Truth (which deemed it "The scariest movie [I'll] ever see!") I already knew that there was some false advertising going on. As soon as I realized it was not a horror movie but a documentary about global warming, I also knew that tons of people would go see it, accept everything in it at face value, and walk around self-righteously for months afterward acting as if watching the film reduced carbon dioxide emissions. I have to be honest, though: I never guessed that it would win the Academy Award for Best Original Song.

What? There's a song in that movie? After doing some intense research I found out that it's hidden as an easter egg during that part of the movie where words scroll up the screen. I also found out that the song even has a title: "I Need To Wake Up." Don't bother looking up the lyrics, though. I did, and regretted it-they actually rhyme "wake up" with "shake up" and then "break up." That's all you need to know.

No one cares about that academy award anyway, though. What's getting more attention is the fact that it won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature. I don't really see why, though. What competition was there? Two films about how we screwed up Iraq (like that needed an exposé), one about a Christian summer camp, and one about a Christian child molester.

Now some people are suggesting Gore run for president in 2008 just because his film won an Oscar. Who cares? March Of The Penguins won the best documentary award last year; which documented the long, annual journey emperor penguins make over the course of an entire year with a 24 twist: they made it feel like real-time.

The pair of awards that it won is indeed a strange one, especially compared to last year's winners in the same categories: An Inconvenient Truth's "I Need To Wake Up" vs. March Of The Penguin's "It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp."

All sarcasm aside, though, AIT isn't that bad. It just isn't that good, either. About half of it is interesting statistics, and half is boring sentimental stuff about the Earth crying; and a third, mathematically impossible half is Al Gore whining about losing the 2000 election.