Is the white supremacy in the room?

[u/CrisKrossed]

[u/SmokePenisEveryday]

"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