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Don’t Look Up (Netflix)

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Cornettoninja · 25/12/2021 13:21

I watched this last night and can’t stop mulling it over.

It’s received mixed reviews but I loved it. Apparently it was written before the pandemic and was originally an allegory about global warming but they made edits based on recent times during the pandemic. Some of it hits quite close to home tbh.

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colouringindoors · 02/01/2022 22:05

I think it's cleverly and depressingly brilliant.

LOLeater · 02/01/2022 22:13

Loved it. Best film I’ve seen in a while.

iwanttobeonleave · 02/01/2022 22:16

@Christmasmorning519

Loved it . Didn’t think it had anything to do with global warming though ?
Really??? For me that's exactly what it WAS about.... That said I'd read about it before watching the film.
colouringindoors · 02/01/2022 23:16

Wow.

Omicrone · 02/01/2022 23:20

Watched it the other day and thought it was really good. I was only really thinking about climate change through most of it, which made the ending really depressing.

I think it's partly because I feel totally helpless with it really. Nothing I do is going to change a thing in the grand scheme of things, I know if everyone feels that way nothing will change, but as individuals, what do we actually do that is going to stop this juggernaut? I feel like I'm looking up, but I guess I'm not really?

PamelaDoov · 02/01/2022 23:27

I really liked it, don’t understand all the hate. The ending was surprisingly moving.

IWannaWishYouANutNutsChristmas · 02/01/2022 23:41

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Don’t Look Up (Netflix)
Madhairday · 04/01/2022 17:37

I thought it was genius.

Youngatheart00 · 04/01/2022 21:06

Amazing film, first epic I’ve seen for a while, it made me laugh out loud and also a few teary moments

merrymelodies · 04/01/2022 21:15

We started watching it but quickly lost interest... Confused

NeurologicallySpeaking · 04/01/2022 21:22

I'm very surprised the climate change allegory was missed - I thought it was pretty sledgehammer with all the pictures of animals about to become extinct, finding a new planet to live on etc?! Also it is has been highly publicised in the media as a climate change allegory (among other messaging about the fucked up state of the world)

I did enjoy it despite not being subtle at all to me but maybe that is because I knew it was about climate change before watching it- I mean the director and lead actors have discussed it extensively in the media. It's not just a theoretical interpretation!

www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2021-12-15/dont-look-up-netflix-leonardo-dicaprio-jennifer-lawrence?_amp=true

theleafandnotthetree · 05/01/2022 10:39

@NFLwidow

Love Jonah hill but Christ I thought it was awful. Get the premise but it’s it was too long and Leo (forgot his character name) cheating on his wife was unnecessary. He was quite a relatable and decent character until that bit.
I think the point being made was that he too had his head turned by the world the movie is satirising.
Omicrone · 05/01/2022 10:47

And once again, Leonardo Di Caprio is pictured living it up on a private super yacht, which allegedly costs 250,000 grand just to fuel, and hanging out with Jeff Bezos.

Don't Look Up Leo!

meteoric · 05/01/2022 10:59

In fairness, the movie's only real solution to it all is "eh, live it up while you can and party with your loved ones because we're all doomed". So Leo's being pretty consistent Grin

Coronawireless · 05/01/2022 11:13

I loved it! Best film I’ve seen for ages. I had heard it was supposed to be about climate change but imo it was just a satire on anything you choose really. A satire on humanity…with timothee’s prayer at the end giving us a sense that we didn’t exist for nothing.
Btw Meryl (fantastic and soo funny!!!) changes her outfits from red to blue and back again during the movie. This is not just a satire of Trump but of Hilary and the Democrats too, and all of us. As in the Simpsons (at their best) no one escapes.

Coronawireless · 05/01/2022 11:19

Responding to a pp who said the Guardian hated the new Annie movie with Jamie Foxx - I loved that too!
So will never listen to Guardian reviews again.

Medievalist · 05/01/2022 12:55

Another article in the Guardian today. Written by an environmental activist describing the frustrations of getting people to understand what is happening to the planet. And the vacuousness of the media. Love the opener -

"No wonder journalists have slated it. They've produced a hundred excuses not to watch .... But they will not name the real problem: it's about them".

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/04/dont-look-up-life-of-campaigning?CMP=ShareiOSAppp_Other

Tulipomania · 05/01/2022 17:29

an environmental activist aka George Monbiot Grin

MrsLargeEmbodied · 08/01/2022 23:40

i enjoyed it very much.

BewitchedBotheredandBewildered · 11/01/2022 23:42

I liked it a lot but didn't believe the de Caprio character would have his head turned by the newsreader, and was intensely annoyed that the imbecilic president was cast as a woman!

Coronawireless · 12/01/2022 08:16

@BewitchedBotheredandBewildered

I liked it a lot but didn't believe the de Caprio character would have his head turned by the newsreader, and was intensely annoyed that the imbecilic president was cast as a woman!
Oh come on. Meryl Streep was fantastic. Are you saying all characters in films should be good and perfect and only the men should be flawed?
Tulipomania · 12/01/2022 09:27

Casting Meryl Streep as the Trump character was brilliant - if the role had been given to a man if would have been harder not to make it a straightforward impersonation of him.

theleafandnotthetree · 12/01/2022 09:35

@BewitchedBotheredandBewildered

I liked it a lot but didn't believe the de Caprio character would have his head turned by the newsreader, and was intensely annoyed that the imbecilic president was cast as a woman!
I think the point of that plotline was to show how even a serious minded person could have his head turned by the glamour and superficiality of the world being satirised in the movie. It wasn't 'about' infidelity. And the casting of Meryl Streep was perfect. There is a strong message on gender in this movie - the different ways in which the male and female scientists are treated, packaged, etc - but the president being female isn't it.
Strokethefurrywall · 13/01/2022 02:58

I think it was brilliant satire with a really fucking desperate message, because desperate messages and measures are what we need now.

It was a brilliant allegory and very cleverly done, and yes it was “in your face” because that’s what the world needs right now.

Honestly though, my very favorite part was Ariana Grande signing that absolutely brilliant song. Voice of an angel singing “We’re all going to die, turn off the shit box news” was fucking comedy genius.

HoliHormonalTigerlilly · 18/01/2022 21:20

@NeurologicallySpeaking

I'm very surprised the climate change allegory was missed - I thought it was pretty sledgehammer with all the pictures of animals about to become extinct, finding a new planet to live on etc?! Also it is has been highly publicised in the media as a climate change allegory (among other messaging about the fucked up state of the world)

I did enjoy it despite not being subtle at all to me but maybe that is because I knew it was about climate change before watching it- I mean the director and lead actors have discussed it extensively in the media. It's not just a theoretical interpretation!

www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2021-12-15/dont-look-up-netflix-leonardo-dicaprio-jennifer-lawrence?_amp=true

Yep hard to m