That's one of the takeaways from a new study conducted by researchers who set out to determine if today's Hollywood blockbusters are reflective of the. The vast majority of movies failed the “climate reality check” proposed by the authors, who surveyed 250 movies from 2013 to 2022.The test is simple — the authors looked to see if a movie presented a story in which climate change exists, and whether a character knows it does.
The 2022 whodunnit"Glass Onion" and the 2019 folk horror movie"Midsommar" were others to pass the test. Some that were more explicitly about climate change, such as the 2021 satire"Don't Look Up," also passed. But"San Andreas," a 2015 movie about a West Coast earthquake disaster, and"The Meg," a 2018 action movie set in the ocean, did not.
“The audience will be more open to hearing a dialogue about what is right and what is wrong,” Winer said. “It's a conversation starter.”