• By Scott Thill

September 18, 2009  | 

Blurring the boundary between sci-fi and documentary, Franny Armstrong’s The Age of Stupid peers back in time from a climate crisis-wracked 2055 to lament our current inaction on the mother of all conflicts: The war on terra. The film premieres globally on Monday.

“We’re not at war at the moment,” explains Piers Guy, a British wind-farm developer who serves as one of The Age of Stupid’s compelling subjects. “But if people actually recognized the full implications of what’s happening to us, they would be treating it like a war.”

Armstrong’s docu-film isn’t shy about examining those implications. Beginning with the Big Bang, The Age of Stupid’s evocative CGI hurls toward 2055 at light-speed, only to find Earth’s once-mighty metropoles annihilated. From a drowned London to a buried Las Vegas and a burning Sydney, its dystopian imagery conjures up disturbing visions of humanity and hyperconsumption gone seriously awry.

 

London drowns and Sydney burns in The Age of Stupid's destabilizing dystopia. All images courtesy Spanner Films

Well, it might be a bit of hogwash - do we really think London will be flooded and Sydney burning in 2055? Seriously?? This movie - come - docudrama (errk!) really is just about putting fear into the voters so that their Governments react according to our Enviro-Economists in Copenhagen.

But since the special effects and CGI are meant to be awesome - why the hell not! Read more at wired.com's reviews section.

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Third dimension ... Sony's 3D TV prototype at the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers conference and exhibition in Sydney / Courier-Mail

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BREAK out your TV-watching goggles. The next big thing in home cinema is 3D and it could arrive in a big way next year.

With more and more feature films being made in 3D, Hollywood studios are lobbying to bring the full immersive experience into lounge rooms, and TV manufacturers are striving to meet those demands.

What are we? Back to the Future of 1955??? 3D is just a tad passe' in my view and until holographivision becomes a reality - really, what is the point of this?

The basic premise of the technology has not changed in 50 years. This is not a good thing. Money should be invested in projected vision entertainment for the home, not just a means of bringing cinema into the home the same way it is delivered in theatres.

Why do our bigshot entertainment and tech houses insist on focussing on reinvention...where is the new stuff? where is the future?? Stop taking us back in time please.

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TOM Cruise and Katie Holmes have arrived at Melbourne's Essendon Airport in their private jet and are staying at Crown Casino in a private suite.

Seriously, does anyone really care????

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