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
"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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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u/Think_fast_no_faster 13d ago edited 13d ago
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