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(More customer reviews)The framework is a little hard to swallow: archaeologists in the year 2210 with more advanced technology than we have--do they really not know how civilization collapsed 200 years previously? (The swimming pool example did force a laugh.) I did, however, like the concept of someone else trying to figure out all of our Achilles heels, just as we currently are trying to figure out which problems truly threaten our existence.
At any rate, I haven't finished the book yet, but found that the movie really glossed over important points that the book made. It seemed like the NG adaptation of Guns, Germs and Steel followed Diamond's book much more accurately than this movie did. The movie felt watered down and seemed like the producers put more effort into making post-apocalyptic urban landscapes look realistic than into creating cohesive, informed arguments about how our society might fail.
Michael Ruppert's "Collapse" documentary/interview was much more thought-provoking.
Overall, it was disappointing, but there are worse films to waste your time with out there.
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Studio: Uni Dist Corp (music)Release Date: 09/21/2010
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