Don't Look Up (2021)
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I’m currently an hour in, they are about the launch and checked the time…
i was expecting I’m into the last 1/3rd or final arc of the movie but there is 1hr and 22nd minutes left!
i was expecting I’m into the last 1/3rd or final arc of the movie but there is 1hr and 22nd minutes left!
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This was brilliant… its commentary on pop superficial nanny safe space culture was spot on
Watched about 15-20 minutes and turned it off. What is up with this new trend of adults acting like children? Watching the president and her son act that way was so cringeworthy. Sure we had trump in that office for a while, but surely even he would not react that way to such news? Just turned it off after that.
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… it’s called satire
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That was alright, it hits some notes, missed in others but overall it’s a bit too long.
Well there is a place for it and this was not one of them imo.
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Satire has no place in a satirical movie?
Satire is supposed to be funny, this felt more like anger trying to be funny and failing. I think something like Bill Burr's style of "angry humour" would have worked well here but the man writing, screenplaying & directing went too far into the "anger" side and not enough into the "funny" side, for me at least i.e. I didn't find the caricatures funny, they just made me annoyed at them.
However fair play to him getting such highly rated overtly political celebs (Streep/DeCaprio etc) to lampoon themselves, probably unknowing of the films true intent, in a film which can't hide the directors absolute disgust of everything those celebs stand for.
However fair play to him getting such highly rated overtly political celebs (Streep/DeCaprio etc) to lampoon themselves, probably unknowing of the films true intent, in a film which can't hide the directors absolute disgust of everything those celebs stand for.
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I turned it off after a about 45 mins. I'm not sure what this film is trying to be. It started off fairly serious and then just morphed into some weird cheesy storyline aimed at morons with zero logic being applied by any of the characters.
I guess it's aimed at the average American.
I guess it's aimed at the average American.
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Satire mate!
Shame, you missed some boob towards the end
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Wife and I watched it last night, thought it was fairly good. Some funny bits and the way it portrayed social media, normal media and the general public was pretty much spot on in my opinion. One gripe was the sound. I had it through my TV speakers but we kept on turning it down because the music was so loud. We couldn't hear what the cast were saying a lot of the time. When there was background music or incidental music it drowned out the dialogue. Ended up using subtitles.
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And ass and willy..Shame, you missed some boob towards the end
After the poor reviews my expectations were lowered slightly. I actually quite liked it in the end. 6/10. Not as funny as it should have been but it was a nice satire on how crazy peeps on either side of the political spectrum can choose to just ignore cold hard facts and go about their merry way inventing alternative realities (or "alternative facts" if you will). I like the way towards the end that the title made more sense. It's a movie written by someone who clearly has got sucked into too many arguments with crazy right wingers 
"Just look up! FFS!"
I didn't like Mark Rylance's character though. It was too much of a caricature and would have been more powerful if he was more normal and believable.
"Just look up! FFS!"I didn't like Mark Rylance's character though. It was too much of a caricature and would have been more powerful if he was more normal and believable.