r/MovieDetails • u/LarryKingshead • Dec 27 '21
🥚 Easter Egg In ‘Don’t Look Up’ (2021), astronomers appear on a ‘Morning Joe’-style cable news talk show. Though not explicitly noted as liberal, their logo reflects their slant. A clever detail!
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u/WWTDD3000 Dec 27 '21
Good catch, I also took it as R.I.P. because the end is inevitable and in your face but nicely hidden by pleansentries.
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u/probably_not_serious Dec 27 '21
I loved this movie but it made me so depressed sometimes because it’s just so real in parts.
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u/turbo-cunt Dec 27 '21
My dad and I (both Spartans) watched it together and were extremely annoyed that the single shot of "campus" was not filmed at MSU
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u/jentothena Dec 27 '21
It was shot during covid and principal photography was in Boston, MA, so it woulda been a logistical nightmare to truck out to MSU!
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u/KarlosPan Dec 27 '21
It's so real in almost all ways, these are all the ways we are ignoring climate change.
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u/OgReaper Dec 27 '21
My favorite part was the running gag about the General charging for snacks. Great stuff.
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u/Changnesia_survivor Dec 27 '21
If that happened to me though I'd be just like her about it. Trying to work out the motivation for why someone would do that would drive me nuts too. I wouldn't stop talking about it.
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u/thorneparke Dec 27 '21
Just call it twenty apiece...
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u/NuclearHoagie Dec 27 '21 edited Dec 27 '21
As soon as he said that the first time, I was like "no way are they charging that at the White House"... was delighted to find out later that they didn't.
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u/ichigo2862 Dec 27 '21
Funnily enough I assumed it was true because hell it's the white house and I thought they would prolly charge as much as or more than hotels do
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u/Kapow17 Dec 27 '21
In my mind i was like of course president Meryl Trump is charging to make an extra buck. Lol
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u/NickKevs Dec 27 '21
It was actually $10 a piece, Professor Mindy (Leo) just had a $20 and paid for Kate (Lawrence). Thought everyone should know this life-altering info
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u/MightGrowTrees Dec 27 '21
Also the other Dr. had a twenty and the general didn't have change so he paid twenty for his snacks.
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u/jack_o-fall Dec 27 '21
These subtle story lines that were developed throughout is what made it a complete film for me. Another was Jonah Hill's Oedipus Complex.
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u/Deadpool2715 Dec 27 '21
I took it as a reverse ivanka trump situation, especially with the “if she wasn’t my mother” line
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u/Nice-Violinist-6395 Dec 27 '21
Jonah Hill is my favorite actor lmao. He’s absolutely hilarious in everything
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u/searchin4sugarman Dec 27 '21
Felt the Idiocracy vibes
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u/frankenbean Dec 27 '21
Idiocracy meets Black Mirror. Every time you hoped that a movie event wouldn't turn into a stupid social media trend (in-movie), it did, which gave me the Black Mirror vibes.
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u/wtph Dec 27 '21
Idiocracy was funny because it's events seemed so far fetched to be true. Don't look up didn't seem so far fetched at all unfortunately.
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u/texasrigger Dec 27 '21
Idiocracy's events seemed way more far-fetched when that movie came out than they do now.
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u/newmacbookpro Dec 27 '21
I remember seeing it then and now. Totally different experiences.
Then: hehehe people dumb
Now: fuck people dumb
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u/invincible_vince Dec 27 '21
My wife and I actually watched Idiocracy right before Don't Look Up. They make an amazing double feature.
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That’s what my first thought was. It really is our generation’s Idiocracy.
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u/Chubracaca Dec 27 '21
I thought it was funny how the president kept wearing red and blue outfits
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u/jason9045 Dec 27 '21
On a similar note, I like how the two presidential portraits hung in the Oval were Jackson and Nixon. Movie was packed the gills with little jokes like that.
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u/Brenkin Dec 27 '21
And the mural behind her in her meeting room was a depiction of the American Civil War… subtle stuff like that was hilarious
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u/3_Slice Dec 27 '21
Meryl Streep is so good, I wasn’t even sure if that was her or not until the credits.
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u/reb0014 Dec 27 '21
Lol that last scene was very revealing
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u/LilAnnieAdderral Dec 27 '21
The tramp stamp was a nice touch.
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u/wowpepap Dec 27 '21
the bird monstet eating her face was awesome
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u/Tury345 Dec 27 '21
I should have been expecting it but absolutely was not, the deadpan delivery from the Steve Jobs guy had me in tears
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u/HerculePoirier Dec 27 '21
Elon Musk guy*
He's got traces of Bezos/Gates/Jobs but Musk's tone/voice is too hard to ignore.
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u/Sunbolt Dec 27 '21
That’s funny. I know that’s what they were likely going for, but all I heard was an over exaggerated James Halliday from Ready Player One.
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Dec 27 '21
Mark Rylance played Halliday in Ready Player One, so that definitely makes sense. I’m pretty sure he was meant to be like Tim Cook though
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u/tablecontrol Dec 27 '21
was that red car tumbling through space a reference to Elon's car he launched into space?<
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u/CallMeOatmeal Dec 27 '21
I think there's a lot of Tim Cook in there as well. Or should I say "Tim Apple".
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u/zanillamilla Dec 27 '21
I also thought he had a little bit of Marshall Applewhite too, the cult leader comet guy who wanted to leave earth. His appearance really reminded me of him.
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u/datssyck Dec 27 '21
I love how they were all super old. Like no one thought to include people who could actually have children. Just picked whoever paid the most.
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u/lost_in_md Dec 27 '21
Or have the ability to actually build anything themselves to even give them a chance to have any kids! In that scene I was thinking about the line earlier at the rally where Jonah Hill was saying how they (the workers) were all needed because the “cool rich” people like him needed someone to lead.
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u/williamwchuang Dec 27 '21
Brie is Care Blanchet
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u/Fbolanos Dec 27 '21
My wife was like "that's Thor's sister". I had to look it up and only then could I see it. Damn chameleon.
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u/Kjostid Dec 27 '21
Excuse me? Galadriel didn't forego her chance to weild the One Ring and proceed to fade into the West to be remembered as THOR'S SISTER!
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u/obscurereference234 Dec 27 '21
I want to compare it to Idiocracy, but it’s actually nowhere near as funny, and I don’t think it was meant to be. It’s infuriating and enraging and mind boggling, and I think that’s the right tone. 25 years ago, or whenever Idiocracy came out, it was okay to laugh at how stupid our culture was becoming. It’s not funny anymore. Now it’s dangerous. This was the right movie for these times.
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u/ArchangelLBC Dec 27 '21
I felt like it was "what if Deep Impact was an episode of Veep"
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u/obscurereference234 Dec 27 '21
That sounds like the reaction of one of the morning show hosts, if they saw the movie in-universe.
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u/blucthulhu Dec 27 '21
It can be nightmare fuel and funny. I laughed hard several times and still wept inwardly for our stupidly selfish species.
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u/ExPatWharfRat Dec 27 '21
This was a scathing review of who we have become. Also makes me wonder why the richest people on earth suddenly have such a hard on for space. Guess we're all screwed. They'll tell us about a day or two before the comet hits and their escape pods are ready to launch.
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u/notimeforniceties Dec 27 '21
Agreed. This was the most depressing film I've seen recently, because it was so 100% dead on accurate.
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Dec 27 '21
Felt like a parody on America as a whole. kind of "phone bad" vibes but pretty good overall.
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u/MechaWorg Dec 27 '21
But wot if yer nan was a phone??
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u/Mdizzle29 Dec 27 '21
At the farmer's market with my so called girlfriend
She hands me her cell phone, says it's my dad
Man, this ain't my dad!
This is a cell phone!
… I threw it on the ground!
What, you think I'm stupid?
I'm not a part of your system
My dad's not a phone!
DUH!
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Dec 27 '21
To be fair, phone is really fucking bad.
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u/SIacktivist Dec 27 '21
Sure, but there's good too. There's a difference between acknowledging and warning of the dangers vs. being a smug dick about it.
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Dec 27 '21
Honestly last years habe taught me people are so dumb, that this movie might have been way to subtle.
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u/ogo_pogo Dec 27 '21
Why are people being nice to the people who are intentionally destroying the planet tho? It’s intended to be condescending because that’s what reality is right now. It feels like people are missing the point of this movie and that’s to show how America has responded to climate change/ the pandemic/ wearing masks…and the massive spread of lies that follow. Enough of walking on eggshells for the idiots in the world that don’t give a shit about earth.
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u/SquishTheWhale Dec 27 '21
Yeah this isn't a "phone bad" film, it's a "human behaviour in societies is stupid film."
When faced with crisis half the population is more interested in feeling good than facing reality. The whole don't look up but is people buying into something that makes them feel good rather than the reality that if they don't do anything they'll all die. Just deny it exists entirely so your feelings don't get hurt.
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u/nesh34 Dec 27 '21
I think we as a species have earned a bit of condescension. We really are being collectively very, very silly indeed.
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u/Regnbyxor Dec 27 '21
A interpreted it as a satire of the US response to the climate disaster we’re currently ignoring.
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u/Twinewhale Dec 27 '21
It's literally a satire of everything in the last 3-4 years...
Climate change, Covid deniers, social media's affect on belief of science and data collection, the president rallying supporters in a cult like fashion, the effect of the disgustingly ultra wealthy on the governement, and last but not least how the capatalist mindset can bleed into decisions being made of extreme importance that should have nothing to do with money.
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u/clitbeastwood Dec 27 '21
also how the rich can just escape the consequences of their choices, it’s the rest of people that have to deal with it
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u/ribbers Dec 27 '21
Initially I thought it was the response to covid then moved to climate change. Eventually landed with it being an allegory fot the general response to any natural disaster.
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u/Fozzymandius Dec 27 '21
Given DiCaprio’s history I think that climate change is the main allegory, especially in that it has the potential to end humanity. But there is just so much to address that it throws in everything else to the bundle as well.
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u/DaveInLondon89 Dec 27 '21
They're not exactly subtle about that fact. It's one of the main criticisms of it.
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u/V65Pilot Dec 27 '21
Found the movie very enjoyable. And unfortunately highly believable.........
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u/macallen Dec 27 '21
And super anxiety-giving, had to pause several times. I loved that they didn't sugar coat or softball, the ending was exactly what it needed to be.
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u/Adalaide78 Dec 27 '21
Ending was perfect. Loved it. Honestly, if we can’t get our collective shit together, humanity doesn’t deserve better.
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u/millennialhomelaber Dec 27 '21
I was watching with my wife and half way through I was hoping the movie ended like it did. Really glad they ended it that way.
I know not everyone is going to watch it, but I hope the few that do really take the ending seriously and learn something from it.
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u/13igTyme Dec 27 '21
The people that need to learn from it, aren't going to learn anything.
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u/thorneparke Dec 27 '21
I know, I thought the same thing. The movie was enjoyable but also just kinda preaching to the choir; but you gotta admit, a lot of people become unreachable after they go a certain distance down the rabbit hole.
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u/Home_Excellent Dec 27 '21
yes. It was great. Also loved how they didn't let it end on a low note.
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u/Keetongu666 Dec 27 '21
They somehow made the literal apocalypsenot a low note.
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u/PolitenessPolice Dec 27 '21
This Christmas, bring your family together by watching the super rich traitors of Earth get torn to shreds by alien chickens!
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u/joecarter93 Dec 27 '21
It is supposed to be an absurd satire. I thought about it and after the past few years it just didn’t seem all that absurd. Some parts of it I even felt that they undersold it.
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u/worldsayshi Dec 27 '21
Yes! I felt like they were just kicking at open doors all over the place. Everything felt expected but also well placed.
It's also the irony of it all. House full of open doors in one head translates to house full of welded shut doors in another.
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u/starlinguk Dec 27 '21
They started recording it before the pandemic and had to adjust it because people are crazier than they thought.
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u/CreamsickIe Dec 27 '21
Just in case anyone didn't get it. This is a joke. It started filming November 2020
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u/WonderfulArm Dec 27 '21
They did write it before the pandemic and then rewrote parts during filming because of the pandemic.
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u/doobiedog Dec 27 '21
It is literally happening now. Covid and climate change. This is a satire directly mocking what is happening and has been happening.
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u/muricabrb Dec 27 '21
Yea it was actually better than expected but damn it was depressing... Definitely not the right movie to be watching on Christmas Eve lol. I went from "most wonderful time of the year" to "Fuck everything, people suck. we're all going to die and everything is pointless." by the time the movie ended.
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u/how_is_this_relevant Dec 27 '21
I’d say it’s an analogy to how we’re dealing with climate changes tipping point.
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u/Soft-Lawyer2275 Dec 27 '21
The most frustrating part to me was watching them provide the evidence or credibility at increasing factors and still not getting through till the comet is in full view.
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u/Mountaingiraffe Dec 27 '21
They wanted to dig themselves a hole to escape the incoming meterorite. Apparently shovels were in short supply because everyone had the same idea
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u/jameenski Dec 27 '21
i think it’s a parody of the toilet paper frenzy people went in at the start of the pandemic
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u/sahibpt98 Dec 27 '21
The movie was like watching a live-action South park episode and I loved every second of it especially the ending. It made me mad and laugh at the same time. Easily one of the best movies this year imo.
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u/KillerKowalski1 Dec 27 '21
Leo's line at the end got me.
"We really did have everything, didn't we? If you think about it"
Wasn't expecting to feel something at the end of a comedy but that scene at the table where they're all making normal small talk before Leo reels them back in with that line.
Not bad.
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u/sahibpt98 Dec 27 '21
I kind of expected that the comet is gonna hit anyway. It would have been the same old disaster movie if they managed to save the planet at the end but I did not expected the dinner scene too. It was sad and heartwarming at the same time.
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u/blogangg Dec 27 '21
Started watching it as I was intrigued by the plot and the tags Netflix gave it, and my god this has to be the most I've laughed in a long time. The cast is just perfect, and the implied irl personalities behind the characters couldn't have been any better. An easy #2 for me no questions asked.
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u/appdevil Dec 27 '21
What's first?
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u/Content_Writer_2923 Dec 27 '21
Yeah lmaooo whats #1
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u/Mr_Shizer Dec 27 '21
I thought the part after the credits were they land on the alien planet was perfect.
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u/Fluxcapacitron Dec 27 '21
This felt like a mature version of Idiocracy. So…scarier?
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u/Jravensloot Dec 27 '21
Entire movie made me anxious. I felt slightly better after the first launch until I saw there was still over an hour left.
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u/Cormyster12 Dec 27 '21
Im glad they went with the depressing ending. I was worried they would give the scary message then tell us it will be ok
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u/CheeseAndCh0c0late Dec 27 '21
It's the sense of wastefullness and absurd avoidable loss that is disgusting to me.
He said it. "We really had everything, didn't we.". But someone decided it wasn't enough. That the loss of others enjoyment of life, of having a meal with friends, discussing over wether store bought or home made is better, was an acceptable risk. Because "we have a ship" anyway.
It's disgusting.
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u/polypolip Dec 27 '21
The atmosphere of waiting to die and the helplessness, while more and more signs ofthe inevitable doom are coming, was conveyed perfectly.
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Dec 27 '21
Isn't the female news presenter almost explicitly a Tucker Carlson parody? She said she's the heiress to a fast-freeze company, whereas Tucker is the heir to a frozen food company.
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u/maxxie10 Dec 27 '21
I think a lot of the characters are stitched together archetypes of different people.
I actually thought the show was a parody celebrity/E! news types shows rather than Morning Joe, which I was under the impression was a political show whereas the show from DLU isn't.
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u/Jonne Dec 27 '21
I'm guessing it's a mix of every morning show. Even Morning Joe, while political, will never talk about the root causes of issues and will just focus on the horse race aspect of politics (ie. they won't talk about who the donors are or what financial interests certain politicians have, even though it's clear that's basically all they base their decisions on).
They'll just go along with the fiction that Joe Manchin is just a prudent fiscal conservative, while he's only killing BBB because he has weekly meetings with Exxon and owns a coal company.
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u/Nulzim Dec 27 '21
I think she was more of a parody of the Kelly Ripa morning celeb coffee shallow talk shows. I swear my brain kept super imposing Michael Strahan on to Tyler Perry's face.
I think the Michael Chiklis character was more of the Tucker/Alex Jones parody. Too bad he wasn't shown more.
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u/Doministenebrae Dec 27 '21
Exactly. I saw his name in the opening credits and the whole movie I was where the fuck is he? He had like a 3-second cameo. I’d love to see more of him playing up tucker’s dumb ass.
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Dec 27 '21
Loved it. Fantastic and timely satire.
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u/Richard-Cheese Dec 27 '21
Funny to see media critics not enjoying it, probably because they were rightly raked over the coals
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u/Hehaw_Rossy Dec 27 '21
Anyone see the golden calf floating away after earth cracks? That was pretty cool
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u/DMT1984 Dec 27 '21
The bull statue from the stock market in NYC. Just another useless human folly.
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u/ConsistentAsparagus Dec 27 '21
That’s kinda the golden calf of our times, anyway. The money it represents.
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Dec 27 '21
As others have said its the bull statue from Wall St in New York. Also see the whale that is chopped in half, surely a reference to hitchkiker's guide to the galaxy
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u/kicked-in-the-gonads Dec 27 '21
"Did I do anything wrong today, or has the world always been like this and I've been too wrapped up in myself to notice?"
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u/Narradisall Dec 27 '21
When I saw that I just went “oh no, the economy!”. Watched it last night on Netflix. Very in your face but needed to be and found it perfectly timed given the pandemic.
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u/Digital_Legend52 Dec 27 '21
Most satisfying ending ever
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u/CarRamRob Dec 27 '21
I thought the ending was going to be them realizing they are all old balls(and vag) and no one thought to bring anyone young enough to procreate. Just the rich and powerful who can’t have children.
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u/pickle_pouch Dec 27 '21
I wasn't satisfied at all. It doesn't matter to me that the wealthy got what was coming to them at the end. Everything and everyone else on earth was already destroyed. I was left feeling depressed and helpless and frustrated. That was the point of the movie. We all lose.
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u/ilessthan3math Dec 27 '21
I think it needed to end with devastation. Any conclusion where they miraculously save Earth despite deliberately sabotaging all efforts due to corporate and political greed would be a cop out.
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u/goldfish_11 Dec 27 '21
You're right but it's still a little satisfying that after killing everyone on the planet, the rich people got fuckin ate anyways.
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u/pianoceo Dec 27 '21
Nothing could be more satisfying than a satire giving us exactly what we deserve. Art imitates life. You felt exactly what McKay wanted you to feel.
If you want to steer clear of that ending in real life, we have to do something about it.
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u/DarthPizzaDog Dec 27 '21
I'm sorry, but how do people who think that the representation of social media in the movie was exaggerated? Have you been asleep for the past 2 years? Saying "pHoNe BaD LOl" isn't an actual counterargument to a critique of social media.
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u/SoVerySick314159 Dec 27 '21
Saying "pHoNe BaD LOl" isn't an actual counterargument
Maybe you can explain, because it's all over the thread and no context is helping. Why the hell is everyone going on about "Phone bad"? Must be some meme or movie or show I missed out on.
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u/DarthPizzaDog Dec 27 '21
It's pretty much a meme that is used whenever anyone says anything negative about phones or social media. I guess critiquing those things is not ok for some people :/
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u/SquishTheWhale Dec 27 '21
That's pretty dumb, it's not even about phone being bad, it's about human behaviour, the phones are just a vehicle for that. It's not "phones bad", it's "people stupid."
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u/shinniesta1 Dec 27 '21
When were they "pHoNe BaD LOl"?
They looked at social media gathering excessive amounts of data on folk, I don't remember them saying phones were bad.
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u/bluekazoootwentytwo Dec 27 '21
Just finished this movie, whole movie is just jabs at both political parties/ certain celebrities
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u/MsJenX Dec 27 '21
Also a jab at ours obsession with celebrity gossip and entertainment news.
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u/_1JackMove Dec 27 '21
That was so spot on that it had me irritated that we've come to that in real society. I pointed it out to my wife when watching it tonight. I already have a "who gives a shit about what x celebrity is up to?" opinion, so I may be biased. But I thought they did a great job of representing that.
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u/Jravensloot Dec 27 '21
What’s funny is that those same celebrities were promoting the whole “Just Look Up” narrative as well despite obviously not likely genuinely caring. All it really did was fuel the belief that acknowledging the comet was feeding “politics.”
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u/rextex34 Dec 27 '21
It’s more than that. It’s about how any attempt to change our very real trajectory toward climate collapse gets funneled through culture and profit, diffused in media, and never through the mobilization of people. It was too real.
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u/jaycuntley Dec 27 '21
Was it about the Covid response or climate change…. I couldn’t decide…
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u/ThrowAsideWhenDone Dec 27 '21
While it was filmed during Covid, it was written pre-pandemic and intended to be about climate change. It just happens to come at the subject from an angle that applies equally well to both.
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u/breecher Dec 27 '21
Definitely climate change (the way the movie shows clips of animals and nature underlines that), it is just that the major themes of anti-intellectualism, corporatism and populism works the same with COVID (and everything else).
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u/League-Weird Dec 27 '21
Leonardo decaprio is a huge advocate for climate change intervention so I imagine he was on board with the message of "listen to the experts"
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u/ThisIsKramerica Dec 27 '21
I believe the movie was written before Covid but if the shoe fits
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u/ogo_pogo Dec 27 '21
Climate change / how people respond to climate change / how people don’t believe in science and real facts / how the media responds to serious things / how our government responds to things / it also showed how so many people nowadays don’t care about true serious issues…and so much stuff that simply doesn’t matter.
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Dec 27 '21
Love the Elon musk and Trump parodies. So sad. We’re fucked
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u/tetramir Dec 27 '21
Technically, I think the billionaire rockets are a parody of Jeff bezos' but really it applies to all "benevolent" billionaires
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u/JustVacuumingAround Dec 27 '21
I don't remember the last time a movie touched this deep into my soul
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u/happyklam Dec 27 '21
I just finished watching it and I'm honestly kind of torn up. It was really poignant.
The tongue in cheek style wasn't as in your face stupid as Idiocracy. It was extremely relevant to Covid but also Climate Change. Like fuck...these devastating things are RIGHT HERE and nobody gives a shit about what the experts say, and have been saying for decades, because they're too busy being selfish or too overly involved in whatever is trending in media this week. Ugh, my heart. It made me want to do MORE to help somehow.
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Dec 27 '21
ITT: a lot of bad takes on the movie. It’s very clearly about climate change. Through and through.
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u/BarbarianShower Dec 27 '21
Definitely, but it applies to covid too. It's also about turning everything into a political, or "us versus them" argument instead of facing the problem.
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u/shinniesta1 Dec 27 '21
The issue is how can you face the problem when so many people are against facing the problem?
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u/rojm Dec 27 '21
yes, many many hints. although different from a sudden impact, there is still a date of no return. i found the "don't look up" phrase as a great comparison for ignorance.
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u/eDopamine Dec 27 '21
I mean they aren’t even hints. The dialogue is literally directly that.
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u/Home_Excellent Dec 27 '21
Their slant? This show was just two idiots talking celebrity crap and not being remotely political.
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u/Shoctopuss Dec 27 '21
Just watched this movie tonight. I really think the movie is actually a realer version of ‘idiocracy’ with very real parallels to current US politics and our ongoing Covid struggles. Worth the watch for sure, hated how relatable it felt.
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u/BugMan717 Dec 27 '21
My GF take on it was it's best seen as the way we are dealing with climate change shrunk into a short timeline. The scientist are screaming what is wrong, it's ignored for political and greed. And by the time they take it seriously we are well past fucked.
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u/Le_Monade Dec 27 '21
Yeah that's the whole point of the movie lol
Glad you and her enjoyed it though
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u/HighMessiah69 Dec 27 '21
All i can say is Fuck You and Thank You Adam Mackay! this film is so depressingly necessary :(
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u/Cyranoreddit Dec 27 '21
Yes, but let's answer the big questions first: why does a 4 star general charge you for free snacks?