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| ‘Don't Look Up' movie review: A Trumpian Attack on America's Corrupt Establishment |
| 2022-01-05 |
| [Breitbart] Co-writer, director Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up will accidentally please establishment-hating Trump fans. Of course, that might sound counter-intuitive considering all the This-is-about-Global-Warming! hype around it. The truth, though, is that (except for a few minutes), Don’t Look Up is such a brutal attack on the media, D.C., Big Tech, the FBI, and the ethically-compromised scientific community, Trump himself could have produced it. The plot is pretty straightforward. Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) is a Midwestern Ph.D. candidate observing the skies who discovers an unknown comet. At first, she’s excited. This is an amazing find, and the comet will be named after her. But during the big celebration that follows, her professor, Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio), does the math and discovers the Dibiasky Comet will destroy the planet in about six months. From here, Kate and Randall, two very smart but down-to-earth people from the rustbelt, attempt to sound the alarm. They start with the White House, then the media, then social media, then raising awareness through celebrities, then, then, then… The good news is that there’s enough time to save the earth. The bad news is that 1) no one wants to acknowledge this reality, and 2) our media/political/Big Tech/celebrity/science establishment are so compromised and self-involved, nothing happens. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #3 Did he have Ron Burgundy reporting the news. That might have been funny. Maybe. Will Ferrel has been mostly miss lately. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2022-01-05 16:23 |
| #2 Don’t Look Up is a half-hour too long and never all that funny. It’s also not terribly deep — nothing close to a Network (1976) or Dr. Strangelove (1964). You’re basically watching a series of skits. With a couple of dumb, over-indulgent post-credit scenes, McKay also steps all over what would have been a perfect ending. We really did have it all. This is true. Still, there were many times I thought dang, how did they get away with making this? There were some yokel moments thrown in as what looked more like foils but for the most part brutal. If it was supposed to be a Trump hit piece, it earns the coveted Paul Verhoeven Award. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2022-01-05 11:15 |
| #1 Blah. Read the story in a better form, when the comet was named Hamner-Brown. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2022-01-05 08:52 |