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Chubby movie lad Leonardo DiCaprio demands dramatic worldwide change:
Leonardo - who has made a documentary film called ‘The 11th Hour’ to highlight the environmental issue - said: “We find ourselves on the brink. We face a very bleak future, and to avoid it we need dramatic worldwide change. It needs to go way beyond politics or religion. It’s scary and it’s daunting.
“It’s clear humans have had a very devastating impact on our planet’s ecological web of life.”
But how can we fix things, Leo? Perhaps Gaia theologist James Lovelock has the answer:
At a panel on climate change at the University of Cambridge this summer, Mr. Lovelock was asked what would be the most effective action people could take. Because humans and their pets and livestock produce about a quarter of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, he said, “just stop breathing.”
(Via Randy V.)
Radio adsd have been running for this POS film here in Ottawa.
Industrial civilization is destroying the world.
... according to the ad. What does di Caprio think would be a better civilisation? One without noxious industrial movies.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 08 26 at 12:28 PM • permalink...“just stop breathing.”
The immortal words of happy hippie cartoonist, R. Crumb:
You can help sove the Overpopulation Problem this quick, easy way! This year, why not COMMIT SUICIDE!? Just think how much good you can do for the planet just by relieving it of one more human being! Life is just an endless struggle anyway! Why not become a martyr for a noble cause and go out in style?
If you’re one of those people who wake up in the morning wondering what the hell you’re living for, now you can stop wondering! Break out of your rut! Don’t be afraid! Do yourself in!
Just leave a note telling your loved ones that you did it to help stave off world-wide famine and they will respect and admire you for your courage, and some may even be inspired to follow you to the other side.
(By R, (Make more room for me) Crumb)
Posted by Mystery Meat on 2007 08 26 at 12:34 PM • permalinkMay we presume that Leo is ready to forego the trappings of an industrial society, which would necessarily mean we’ll never hear of or see his sorry ass again? Probably not, unfortunately.
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2007 08 26 at 12:44 PM • permalinkLeonardo is trying to jumpstart his moribund acting career, eh? It’s a poor choice, riding on the coat tails of a known loser, The Goreacle™.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 08 26 at 12:44 PM • permalinkUnfortunately not, Jorge. But I agree, he would he do better to feed the polar bears by parachuting into the Arctic smeared in steak sauce.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 08 26 at 12:46 PM • permalinkHey, Leo! How much carbon did the making, promoting, distributing and showing of your multizillion-dollar sobfest Titanic spew? Bet it was more than everyone on this blog could collectively be “responsible” for in a lifetime.
Posted by Blue State Sil on 2007 08 26 at 01:39 PM • permalinkThe Crumb quote is particularly telling - a fantastic example of how sociopathic misanthropy underlies the sunshine and children playing in Gaia’s green bosom piffle that veneers progressive thought. I’ve met Crumb - a more miserable, self-pitying creature I couldn’t imagine.
Posted by rick mcginnis on 2007 08 26 at 01:41 PM • permalinkSpeaking of industrial civilization, here’s something over which the handwringing greenies like Leo and Algor can get their hemp knickers in a knot. A Japanese corporation has designed a 13,000-foot skyscraper complex. Now THERE’S an impressive carbon footprint.
(link shamelessly stolen from Hot Air)
Posted by Blue State Sil on 2007 08 26 at 02:03 PM • permalinkOh squee. Let me drink in the wise words of Leonardo di Caprio. Well here are some other things he’s said:
“The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it. It’s a great outlet. As for myself, I’m not sure who I am. It seems that I change every day.”
We’ve noticed, Leo.“You can either be a vain movie star, or you can try to shed some light on different aspects of the human condition.”
Or you can be one and pretend to do the other.On fame: “As soon as enough people give you enough compliments and you’re wielding more power than you’ve ever had in your life, it’s not that you become an arrogant little prick, or become rude to people ... but you get a false sense of your own importance and what you’ve accomplished. You actually think you’ve altered the course of history.”
Which is what you appear to be doing now, Leo.As a little kid growing up in Hollywood, I was called ‘a little crazy’. And now I guess I’m still that way.
I cheated a lot, because I just couldn’t sit and do homework. I usually sat next to someone extremely smart.
Please be my role model.I like to help the whales, the otters, and the dolphins. When I’m acting and I take a break, the first thing on my list is spending time by the sea.
Helping them.It’s a weird adjustment living alone, because you don’t realize how much you really miss Mumsie until she’s not there.
This from the little German boy with the Italian name, who plans never to marry.I don’t have emotions about a lot of things. I rarely get angry, I rarely cry. I guess I do get excited a lot, but I don’t get sad and enormously happy. I think a lot of people who talk about all that crap are lying.
I’ve read about this in case studies of sociopaths. It’s called “flat effect”, not really a good quality in actors, IMO.#11 I like to help the whales, the otters, and the dolphins.
Wait until the eco-dorks hear about that! He’s a mammal-centric bigot! If you aren’t warm blooded with a vertebrae then screw you!
I for one can’t wait for Leo’s remake of the Aviator where he pantomimes flying a plane and provides his own vvvrrrrrrrooooommmmmmm sound effects. It’d probably be nearly as funny as his vanity documentary.
“I was the embarrassingly contrived bad boy on TV’s Growing Pains so I am an authority on
thisany subject”Posted by Col. Milquetoast on 2007 08 26 at 05:10 PM • permalinkI’ve met Crumb - a more miserable, self-pitying creature I couldn’t imagine.
When you watch a laudatory biographical documentary about a person you know nothing about, and at the end of the picture you thoroughly despise the little worm, you know you’ve been introduced to a complete a-hole.
My favorite part was when he was sitting in a sidewalk cafe, sneering at the passers-by and remarking in that nasally-dismissive tone about how stupid it was for people to wear sports-team logos on their clothing. “What is that?”, he whined. I dunno, Crumb, maybe they’re using their clothing to express something about their interests and personalities - for instance, a person might wear a drab suit jacket and Fedora everywhere to advertise that he is a quirky outsider unconcerned with mass fashion. It’s called “branding”, you twerp, and you’re a blatant practitioner.
I’m sorry, isn’t this the same Leonardo DiCaprio who starred in a film called “The Beach” which massively damaged a Thai island?
Leonardo has long campaigned on environmental issues and set up the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation in 1998.
Oh. Well that’s okay then.
#8 Sil, Titanic is one of my all time guilty pleasures.
From a technical point of view it is wrong on so many levels - the CGI is good, but after watching it a few times you can’t ignore the flaws in it.
James Cameron just repeats himself in every film - watch the Abyss next to Titanic and you’ll see what I mean. The same shots of women running through waterfilled corridors….
And then there are the acting and dialogue…
I won’t go there, but it’s like a trainwreck and I can’t look away.
But best of all?
Leo dies.
That makes the pain worthwhile.
He is an idiot, and when he signed on as a card-carrying eco-warrior during the filming of The Beach (I think) he lost any minor appeal he may have had for me.
Not that I’m into spindly, whiny brats in the first place.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 08 26 at 08:09 PM • permalinkAnd if you want to [s]see[/s] hear some genuine recycling in the movies, watch Titanic and Braveheart back to back.
Swap the soundtracks and you won’t notice any difference in the music.
Forget James Last! If you want true genius, check out James Horner’s scores for those two movies.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 08 26 at 08:27 PM • permalinkBugger. One day I will perview properly.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 08 26 at 08:28 PM • permalink#19 Hahahahahaha! Team America has forever altered how I view certain actors.
I can never watch a lot of them in quite the same way.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 08 26 at 09:37 PM • permalinkSpeaking of Team America, Hans Blix is in town. Media outlets are naturally giving coverage to his moonbat boilerplate about Iraq, but they’re less forthcoming about his enthusiasm for nuclear power. This morning on Radio National (credit to them), he pointed out that more people are killed by hydroelectric than by nuclear.
I like Sharon Stone’s The Quick and the Dead most because DiCaprio dies slow and whining in it…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 08 26 at 11:10 PM • permalink#23 Regarding Hans Blix’ failure to find WMD in Iraq - i saw a video wherein a guy who knew Blix said that he was a nice guy but very easy to fool….
Interesting description, I thought.
Apparently much of the weaponry was hidden in trucks being driven around Iraq.Posted by carpefraise on 2007 08 27 at 03:49 AM • permalink
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OK, it would be really easy to point out that Leo owns an estate with a carbon footprint of at least 1.7 Algores, but he’s offsetting that by destroying other people’s mansions. So it’s a push.