[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by tmiller166

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Just replace meteorite with climate change…govts won’t “look up” until it is too late, then when they (we) do react, it won’t work because we didn’t look up in time.
I worry about our grandchildren.

At least the grandchildren are able to enjoy movies with really GOOD computer-generated graphics - unlike what our generation slogged through. The closest thing to graphics back then were cartoons.....ah blia, ah blia, remember that's all folks? And can I say anything good about ALL those Rock Hudson and Doris Day movies on TV then? Probably not. They were funny, in that, during a bedroom scene they both had to have both feet on the floor. No wonder that it was a "golden age" for burlesque and x-rated movie theaters.
........And the only way to see a real intellectual, worthwhile, and worth the money movie in a theater was to go to a foreign films theater and see something (not Hollywood) by a director like Federico Fellini.
There were some exceptions to this, like "The Birds" and that movie with the famous (for its time) shower scene early in the movie - by Alfred Hitchcock. "Chariots of Fire" was good. Earlier a Charlton Heston movie about racing chariots in Rome was long and good. Those were the days of LONG movies and intermissions (something unknown today) - probably due to shorter attention spans)! My personal fav old film was, "a Boy and His Dog", which MAY (?) have been the original apocalypse movie? Sorry about the trip down "old memories lane".

[EdFNJ]

Fast (or slow) forward through the credits. The REAL ENDING is great.

Also note at ~1hr 28mins if you look carefully for a 1/2 second you can see a cameraman with a black mask and an iPhone. Read about that online, hard to find.


Edit: I see someone else mentioned the "real ending" but look for it.

[Pairadocs]

Originally Posted by AZ SLIM

Political Comedic Satire. Is that a thing?
Maybe the English teachers out there will chime in.

I enjoyed the many jabs at governmental dysfunction and manipulation we see so much of, but I don't want offer up more opinions in fear of turning this post into a political opinion and get bumped off the forums.

I did enjoy the movie although I fell asleep the first go around. I did go back and finish it the next night. That seems to be happening to me more frequently now days.

LOL... would not even want to estimate how many netflix and other movies I had to "finish watching" the next night .... LOL .....

[Dana1963]

Originally Posted by CoachKandSportsguy

On Netflix, if you want to watch a movie.

For those who have watched it:

Is it a comedy or political satire?
Who do you recognize anyone?
Do you see yourself anywhere in there?
Which themes did you see?

In September/ October 2022 will try to knock an Asteroid off course from POTENTIAL collision with Earth “ What could go wrong?”
Currently Earth is not endanger it’s just a multi million dollar game. The project is called DART

[bmarasco]

Political satire - surprised that its coming from Hollywood ?
Don’t look up - nothing to see here - ironic isn’t it ??

[slbellmd]

Lost interest after a few minutes. Lots of big name stars, but had an amateurish feel to it.

[Boomer]

EEK! Forgive the incoherent title. I tried to edit and, of course, cannot. That is a TOTV flaw— titles get obvious mistakes that can never be fixed once submit is hit. Oh well, onward with my dissertation:

I think I must have cut my teeth on satire. And I know I was in the 4th grade when I started spending part of my 50 cents a week allowance on MAD magazine. For as long as I can remember, I have been reading between the lines. Sometimes that’s a gift. Sometimes, a curse. Don’t Look Up tapped into that thing I have — and sometimes wish I did not.

I liked the movie. As satire goes, it had a lot of on-target moments — like when the man astronomer gets not only the comet by the tail — but also gets the tuned-in-to-only-screens world by the tail, along with plenty of other tail and all that entails, too. . .

Meanwhile, the woman astronomer (who discovered the comet) and the Black man astronomer get shut up and locked up in a room and grabbed and carried off in cars, with hoods over their heads.

The woman astronomer is treated as hysterical, crazy — just like intelligent women in a “man’s world” have often been treated throughout history, sometimes being hauled off to asylums when they lost their tempers because their ideas were not being heard and respected. (There was an architect whose true story is in the book Devil in the White City who was an example of that happening to a brilliant woman — to an asylum she went.) The movie subtly echoed those times — which are actually sometimes still with us, although in a slightly different form than hauling off to an asylum.

The most direct hit of the satire for me was on the shallowness of the general population of the country — all about stuff and idolizing famous people and entertainment and thinking real connections are contained in their constant screens.

Of course, there was the political satire, but it was more than that. . .satire everywhere.

Some of it just plain funny, in little ways, like what sure looked like it had to be terrible-bad extensions attached to Meryl Streep’s hair — those ubiquitous, long ringlets that I cannot help but think I can spot on almost every “weather-girl” on local television, always right in front of the ears and attached up under their real hair. They always look the same.

But there was definitely heavier satire — there were the vile creatures being put in positions of power — the pervs and the stupid, along with the purely selfish and evil, masters of manipulation. . .but wait! That part was more like a documentary than a satire.

Some of it was overly cartoonish and it was a little long, could have used an edit of a few minutes, but. . .

(Spoiler alert ahead)

I give very high marks to the ending scene at the dinner table with people actually talking to people they loved in normal, everyday conversation, and to the skateboarder’s beautiful prayer — and to DiCaprio’s line, “We really had it all, didn’t we.” (Rhetorical question worded in past tense.) I would have ended it with those words. . .

But I guess modern audiences needed that next ending with the other world that gets Meryl Streep — who, as President, had always had nothing but contempt for the American people — and the ones for whom she had the most contempt were those who blindly followed her.

There is a lot more to talk about in this movie, despite its few shortcomings, but I think I will shut up now.

Boomer

PS: Btw, thank you Chi, on your word, earlier in this thread, I will go back and catch the third ending. That same writer/director did that with Vice, too.

PPS: Anybody who wants to watch a satire that will make you laugh and even feel nostalgic, watch Alpha House. I think it is on Amazon. Ah, those were the days, my friends, 2013. (sigh)

. . .and now I really must shut up. . .

[Carla B]

Thanks to the OP for starting this thread and all the comments. Otherwise, I doubt I would have chosen to watch it. Knowing it was going to be a satire just added to the experience. Husband enjoyed it, too.

[Malsua]

I watched it and there were definitely some really hilarious parts.

Some of it was a bit long but overall I enjoyed it.

The 2nd ending "Are those feathers or scales??" LOL!

[CoachKandSportsguy]

Originally Posted by Malsua

The 2nd ending "Are those feathers or scales??" LOL!

She never really got an answer!

[CoachKandSportsguy]

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[Davonu]

Halfway through. Might finish it. Meh.

[skarra]

They should have included a part on Space Force coming to the rescue (not).

Enjoyed it, although it's a sad reflection on the state of affairs with politics and our lack of understanding of science.

[Janet Quirk]

A movie to think about... Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence were characters that put their feelings out there. With most movies like this - it brings on a bit of truth (even a hint) that just maybe this could happen.

[Taltarzac725]

I have been watching it today but have various chores to do. Definitely a political satire.