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The film's synopsis contains emotive language - it needs to be made less emotional and more formal in its description
Copyvio problem!
The "Detailed Synopsis" is a blatant copyvio of the "Synopsis" on the FX site for the movie ("blatant" as in copied virtually verbatim). I don't really have the time to fix it right now, so I'm posting in the hope that someone else can catch this. —
Dale Arnett03:48, 29 August 2005 (UTC)reply
It's a start, but that's still a serious lift from their site — a few changed words don't mean that it's no longer plagiarism. It may be better to cut the synopsis down to a paragraph or two and direct those interested in more details to FX's site; at the time being, it's still a huge copyvio.
Deadsalmon06:54, 1 September 2005 (UTC)reply
An observation
I find it peculiar that after a natural disaster on the scale that this movie imagines (and the one just experienced in Louisiana), that gas prices merely double (if that) in the aftermath to 3 or 4 dollars a gallon. This, it is postulated, creates a measure of panic both from the citizenry and the government (in the form of various "deals" with Saudi Arabia and Russia). Meanwhile, people in Europe regularly pay upwards of 10 dollars a gallon, and there is no sense of panic. Granted, the situations are different (especially mass transit), but it's a peculiar phenomenon nonetheless. -
Jersykotalk 21:06, September 2, 2005 (UTC)
People in Europe usually pay $6-7/gallon but it's not really problem for them since everything is close there. Everything in the US in spread out and we need the means of transportation. Which leads to having our own transportation or using public transportation.
Douglasr00703:06, 21 September 2005 (UTC)reply
Yes, distances travelled by car in Europe tend to be lower (the average US commute sounds daunting for a European planning a weekend trip). But higher fuel efficiency also figures. Furthermore, the fact that taxes on petrol/gas are generally much higher (a) reduces the proportional impact of oil price rises and (b) provides scope for reducing taxes to offset the oil price rise. Which doesn't help much if you're facing a large shortage, of course - prices will have to rise, as in the film, to high enough to price some people out of the market, which economically is bound to be horrible.
Rd23218:45, 4 October 2005 (UTC)reply
The panic comes because it's a rapid change, not because of the absolute numbers. Europeans have been paying high prices for a long time. ~~ N (
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18:56, 4 October 2005 (UTC)reply
Another Milestone
Feb. 24, 2006 - Car bombs explode in
Buqayq. Initial mixed reports about temporary oil disruption followed by denials that anything interrupted operations.
This was way after Xmas and didn't lead to war but another threshold has clearly been breached and you can't go back only further on.
Russian propaganda movie?
Get out a copy and fast-forward to 59 min 30 sec. The plot becomes "weak little US goes to big strong Putin for oil".
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01:13, 4 December 2022 (UTC)reply