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triceratops ◴[] No.44449209[source]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Look_Up
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dottjt ◴[] No.44450441[source]
I liked the idea behind the movie, but the movie itself wasn't very good. It was a bit like the movie Mickey 17, it didn't quite know what it wanted to be and tried to be a lot of things, but none of it really stuck and it ended up being a bit incoherent. The ending I thought was powerful though.
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timr ◴[] No.44450497[source]
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1. nothrabannosir ◴[] No.44451229[source]
> Being preached at about science by a population of people who probably mostly failed high school science is not a good time.

I agree with the part about preaching, but fair is fair: they were preaching scientific consensus. They preach what is said by the overwhelming majority of active scientific researchers in this field.

You didn’t say they were wrong I agree, but still .. they were (/ are) right. And why should they be perfect, anyway? They are who they are, flawed and all, but they are right about this and they were right to make that movie and they were right about people being selfish.

Ironically you could say that we are now basically reenacting the movie, proving its point. There’s an asteroid heading for us and here we are, judging the high school grades of the people telling us about its trajectory.

I thought it was very depressing and surprisingly self reflective and poignant in that sense.

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2. timr ◴[] No.44454707[source]
So? There’s more to a movie than being right.

It wasn’t a documentary, and even if it were a documentary, a dreadful, preachy, insipid movie that is technically right is still bad.

(I say “technically right”, because let’s not forget that this film was supposed to be a satire.)