The All Time* Top Environmental Films

* the last 35 years of satellite-based climate measurements

Special Triple Category Award!
Best Horror
Best Melodrama
Best Sci-Fi

An Inconvenient Truth (2006)

By far the most terrifying film you will ever see

A terrifying lack of facts make this a shoo-in for environmental horror film of the century. Actor Al Gore gives a winning melodramatic performance in a film that is sure to have the audience trembling with fear over what outrageous piece of science-fiction he's going to serve up next. "Gruesome, ghastly, hideous, atrocious and barbaric" said the Antipodes Daily Times - and that was just about the opening credits.

Best ComedyThe Day After Tomorrow (2004)

Now it's fiction... Tomorrow it's real

Real? Really funny that is. A laugh a minute as our hapless heroes try and keep warm as they lurch from one chucklesome climate cliche to another. After an absurdly laughable Gulf Stream shutdown, farcical ice storms lash the planet in an entertainingly riotous routine. Harsh critics thought that the list of serious scientific errors in this film was too long for it to rake in the top Environmental Comedy. But we couldn't get enough!

Best MysteryGasland (2010)

There's something in the water

Well, maybe there was something in the water. Otherwise it's a mystery how this film ever got released to even lukewarm acclaim. As top film critic Winston Churchill said: "Gasland is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." The many unsolved questions about the so-called uncertainties in this impenetrable film leave a lingering impression of romantic inscrutability and intrigue.

Best Fantasy

The Age of Stupid (2009)

Why didn't we save ourselves when we had the chance?

I don't know why we didn't save ourselves from seeing this film when we had the chance. We were warned by the critics that this was an imaginative, creative fantasy masquerading as a documentary. The Director dishes out hackneyed climate myth and invention (cloud cuckoo land) by the wheelbarrow load as we see a flooded London, a burning Sydney and other figments of the imagination. Delusional climate escapism at its best!

Best Adventure

Mad Max (1981)

Only one man can make the difference
And, yes, he surely does make the difference in this apocalyptic classic set in a future Australia that is experimenting with strict petrol-rationing. Much-misunderstood spiritual loner Max selflessly assists blue-eyed, blonde, tunic-wearing goodies (Environmentalists) escape the clutches of mohawk-sporting, leather-clad, bad-ass bikers (Ruthless Oil Company Executives). Adrenaline-pumping action includes several top-class car chases set against the haunting dream-like background of the unspoiled Australian outback.

Best DocumentaryTransformers (2007)

Their war. Our world.
The true story of two robot alien races who battle for control of a powerful artefact hidden somewhere on Earth. Includes familiar CAGW backdrops such as baking deserts and melting ice caps. This film really puts human-induced environmental damage into perspective as Optimus Prime, Bumblebee and Ratchet (with essential help from American children of course), battle Megatron, Devastator and Bonecrusher for control of the Allspark. A lot of people simply don't know that this sort of stuff goes on behind their backs.

Tags: Gongs, Environment