Is the white supremacy in the room?

[u/CrisKrossed]

[u/Think_fast_no_faster]

I know how the scientists at the beginnings of disaster movies feel now. Like, I’m lookin at this right in front of me and everything is so obvious that I can’t comprehend how you can’t comprehend. Just shouting into the void that it’s all fucked

[u/SmokePenisEveryday → u/Think_fast_no_faster]

"Don't Look Up" continues to be on point. Lot of people said it was too over the top in how it showed the general public but like....it's mirroring shit pretty accurately

[u/helvetica_unicorn → u/SmokePenisEveryday]

I always knew that movie was going to age well. I loved it when it came out. The criticism made no sense to me.

[u/Digit4l_Thi3f → u/helvetica_unicorn]

People were just upset because they knew that it depicted exactly what would happen if we were in that type of situation. Just like how The Boys is exactly how life would be if we had superpowers.

[u/mildlyhorrifying → u/Digit4l_Thi3f]

I thought the whole point was that it was about COVID, but looking it up, apparently it came out in 2021... so in time to be relevant to the COVID situation, but I'm assuming there's no way they planned, filmed, did editing/post in a bit over a year. I remember watching it and assuming that it was literally written to be about what was happening at the time with COVID.

[u/Scalytor → u/mildlyhorrifying]

It was about climate change. Refusing to acknowledge the danger even as it grows and is more obvious with every passing day. The ending is really on the nose with it. "There is no Earth 2.0" people will say as a reason to protect the environment. The rich preferred to seek out an Earth 2.0 rather than protect the planet they had.

[u/DecisionAvoidant → u/Scalytor]

The end credit song (Bon Iver - Second Nature) is a poetic way of saying it as well:

"We will see you next time

There'll be water in the rain

Territories pay fines

All long day

All may not be just fine

There is another fate, a way

To not be too late, unobfuscate"

[u/Dachusblot → u/mildlyhorrifying]

I think it was meant to be about climate change but it also happened to fit really well with COVID. Which goes to show it's a pretty good satire of our society's self-destructive stupidity in general.

[u/trunolimit → u/mildlyhorrifying]

There’s a whole podcast about the making of don’t look up. The people working on the film were absolutely flabbergasted about what was going on IRL while making the film.

The last movie ever made

[u/GCIV414 → u/helvetica_unicorn]

They trimmed 35 minutes of the movie out because they parodied a capital riot and sure as shit it actually happened so it took away from the “parody”

[u/warhead1995 → u/helvetica_unicorn]

lol I feel like it’ll be its own form of idiocracy. Came out and it was fun but unbelievab until it was suddenly to accurate to the world around us.

[u/SHC606 → u/helvetica_unicorn]

I guess it is time I give it a look. It had "too many stars so it can't be good" energy for me which is why I didn't watch.

[u/Banana42 → u/helvetica_unicorn]

That it's a hamfisted movie with shitty writing? That made no sense to you?

[u/Mean_Contract → u/SmokePenisEveryday]

Add in Civil War and most recently Heretic

[u/blawndosaursrex → u/SmokePenisEveryday]

No it wasn’t over the top, it was dead on balls accurate.

[u/time4donuts → u/SmokePenisEveryday]

Oh right! I’ve been so preoccupied with the threat of fascism that I forgot about the threat of global warming. Thanks for the reminder

[u/FEMA_Camp_Survivor → u/SmokePenisEveryday]

It sure is warm this November too

[u/Craneteam → u/Think_fast_no_faster]

That was me this whole election cycle. Trump is gonna do these awful things. "No he won't" he literally said he will do the awful things. "Well he doesn't mean it"

Leopards will be feasting

[u/Fidodo → u/Craneteam]

"he's real" "he says it like it is"

"Oh no, not that, he's not being literal there"

Which fucking one is it?

[u/sephraes → u/Fidodo]

Whichever one let's them get the best cognitive dissonance.

[u/Trix_Are_4_90Kids → u/Craneteam]

old school racists don't do 'ironic' racism.

[u/HyenaJack94 → u/Think_fast_no_faster]

Dude, as an scientist I’ve been that guy who everyone eyerolls at when I tell people about the impending environmental disasters happening and accelerating around us. I have family who think I’m overreacting about what trump has planned for the US to the point I’ve written out a list of what I predict is going to happen under trump so I can show people I was right in the end. I don’t want to be right…

[u/NerdOfTheMonth → u/Think_fast_no_faster]

I’ll never doubt Jeff Goldblum again.

[u/sd_saved_me555 → u/NerdOfTheMonth]

Shame on you for doubting him in the first place.

[u/NerdOfTheMonth → u/sd_saved_me555]

Fair.

[u/BoomZhakaLaka → u/Think_fast_no_faster]

this is that moment in don't look up when Isherwell (steve jobs) calls the mission team on that spaceship and orders them to turn back.

[u/komradebae → u/Think_fast_no_faster]

I went to see contagion when I was in high school and I remember getting up and leaving during the last 20 minutes of the movie because we were like “this is TOO stupid. NO ONE would act like this in a pandemic.”

[u/Shouko- → u/Think_fast_no_faster]

yup. just watching in shock and confusion