What about this was unsubtle? What rose above the hum-drum of every day status quo in a way that made it “hitting people over the head with a sledgehammer” as CairoCarol called it (given that it’s far from a perfectly executed movie and there are some scenes and characters that fail)?
I hate this phrase, but when “calling it like it is” is criticized as being too over-the-top, well that’s exactly one of the perspectives that lead us to tragedy, and that the film points out.
I almost wondered how much of the script could’ve been culled from the media. The way many have observed in recent years that, “If you wrote this as fiction, no one would believe you.”
So I’m not sure how that fits in with the “insufficiently subtle” or “hit over the head” camps. Very little in this movie that we haven’t seen played out IRL.
We haven’t quite got to the “President sending genital pictures” point yet but it’s now firmly in the range of plausibility, especially considering the various Congressional scandals.
They could almost have taken a page from South Park and flashed captions saying “THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENED” or “THIS GROUP ACTUALLY BELIEVES THIS” every five minutes.
I guess it would have been more realistic if in two places across the country Orleans supporters were chanting “DON’T LOOK UP” and “JUST LOOK UP” at the same time, in homage to “COUNT THE VOTES”/“STOP THE COUNT”. Yet another way that reality was actually far stranger than this movie.
Wasn’t there a title card early that the NASA Planetary Defense Coordination Office was real?
I forgot about that. I think the caption was referring to the goofy patch which was less believable than almost anything else in the film. “Here to observe the day”. Saving the day is somebody else’s problem.
I didn’t go back and look but wasn’t BASH listed as the production company or something in the opening credits?
Overall, I thought it was a 7+.Too long but I stayed up past my bed time because I wanted to see the impact portrayed. Not too bad as these things go. Personally, I think I’d have to go outside and watch. I took Streep to represent Trump but I could see how others think differently. Much of it didn’t make logical sense bit its not intended to be serious.
Is there any significance to the number 22,700? Seems like a rather unusually number specific.
Yes, it was- I noticed that too
I disliked it not because of any message it may have had and whether that was too close to reality or whatever. I disliked it because as a comedy it wasn’t funny and as a drama it was silly. It tried to have it all and utterly failed.
I think it’s specific enough to be funny without being so specific as to be stupid. It’s a subtle distinction.
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My husband liked it better than I did, but he pointed out a real missed opportunity. When the denialists at the “don’t look up” rally finally see the comet, why didn’t they see it in the reflecting pool they were gathered around, while looking down? After all that, they just look up anyway? C’mon!
I really want #justlookup to become a thing.
Was it intentional or coincidence that Meryl Streep’s character had the same last name as her character in “Adaptation”?
This sums it up for me. I liked it, I got it on the level it was intended. I didn’t laugh so much as grimly chuckled. It was not biting satire, it was not wacky comedy, it was an alternative reality barely changed from the truth we are all currently living through, and was about both Covid and Climate Change at the same time, and more besides.
I watched it last night and really enjoyed it. I made sure to avoid spoilers or commentary before viewing so I pretty much saw it cold.
If I had thought it was about Climate Change or COVID, I would have been disappointed. I thought it was about how vapid the media are. I especially loved banter between the morning show talking heads. I thought that the President was more of a mash up between Trump and BIll Clinton. If those two boys were millennials, there would definitely be dick pics floating around.
I disagree. I do not think it was trying to be anything other than what it was: a mirror only slightly askew.
I did quite like the scene of the 2nd meeting with the President where J Lawrence’s character just nails it with ‘so, you’re about to lose the midterms because you got caught sending a picture of your cooch to your porn star boyfriend and now it’s in your best interests to do this?’. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve listened some tapdancing BS from a politician and thought a similar thing.
Well, that the ship actually managed to function for over 20K years and navigate to a habitable plant with only a 58% fatality rate is hugely impressive and a credit to BASH’s scientists & engineers. Less of a credit is that they forgot about mundane stuff like survival equipment or clothing. 