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A sure sign of a movie with ego - it rolls the title credits over 11 minutes in. :/
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Ok so I watched Don't Look Up and there are a lot of smart takes with smart good and bad feedback, etc... but I have to say the biggest issue for me was that the whole thing just felt both self satisfied and in tremendous bad taste.
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I don't think I've ever watched a film that felt more... gross... for lack of a better term and I've watched more than one Saw film. How do you tell someone who thinks they're the hero of their own film that they're actually the villain?
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It would be mitigated somewhat if I thought it actually was effective messaging but like... is it? Did you get a call to action out of that film? Did you figure out a why to move forward on climate change? Did you get an idea of someone specific to call upon or take to task?
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Like... they don't even have a URL at the end for you to go to some sort of fund-raising site or charity... ? I think I've seen action movies that deal with self-harm at least put the Suicide Hotline in the end credits? The least they could do is I dunno recommend *something*.
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The film ended and then Netflix went 'ok, ready to watch The Witcher?' so... they couldn't even follow it up with a recommendation to watch a documentary or something factual or even just autoplay An Inconvenient Truth or something?
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I love how the film implicitly criticizes Millennial capitalist-activism but also... is Boomer capitalist-activism. Though honestly like... I think it might be a stretch to even call it activism. Once again: there doesn't appear to even be a vague gesturing at a call to action?
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I guess if there was any message to take away it would be... uhhh... don't trust the Ultra Rich or Tr*mp and listen to scientists but... even that was surprisingly vague...
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Since in the film there are clearly Good Scientists and Bad Scientists and the Tr*mp-esque president gets her humorous threat-deflating comeuppance...
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I guess the biggest criticism I had of Don't Look Up really is that it's supposed to be a comedy but it just made me sad. Not like... emotional along with the characters sad... just sad. Sad and tired. Would not recommend.
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About 1/3rd in the scientists are trying to explain to basically GMA hosts that bad shit is happening & a host goes 'we try to make the news lighthearted' and the film paints the anchor as in the wrong... but that's *exactly* what the film is doing and... uhhh I don't understand.
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Did they donate the profits of the film? Or pay for carbon credits (even though those are BS) to cover the cost of the production? If I was ever going to call something clicktivism it would be this film.
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I am just depressed that this is what counts as Big Hollywood Activism in these times.
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