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Watched this last night, because the wife wanted to. It's packed with a collection of Hollywood waste of oxygen (Streep, DeCaprio, Lawrence, etc...). Basically, elitist people who think they're smarter than us peasants. I usually don't even waste the time listening or watching anything they do. This movie is basically the story of how a comet destroys earth and how the corrupt elites fail to save it. It was a decent watch, but I just felt like I needed a shower afterwards.
I think they made the movie to illustrate the corrupt and self-serving society we have become. However, the irony of watching these clueless windbags portray as a character what they really are in life was disturbing/uncomfortable in their denial.
I just can't put my finger on why the movie made me cringe, other than a visceral reaction to a natural enemy. Did anyone else watch this ?
 
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Have not, and likely will not. Streep/Dicaprio are saying outright in interviews that the comet is a metaphor for climate change. I am tired of being preached to by pseudo-science cultists.
 
Watched it. It was ok

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We watched it the other night. Like already stated, it was weird to watch and had a lot of WTF moments
 
It's satire. I've not seen it yet, but I will. A friend said it's "Idiocracy meets Dr. Strangelove". He's so conservative he makes Jesse Helms look communist, and he loved it.
 
I've thought about the premise. If you knew an asteroid was incoming would you tell everyone or just keep it to yourself?

I've decided that there was nothing to gain by telling folks.

Watch Hard Sun on HULU to get a taste.
 
Watched and really didn't care for it at all .
 
I listened to the audiobook of neil stephenson's seveneves. first half was a solid scifi/political end of the world scenario, complete with governments trying to cheat eachother, people making backroom deals, lying, etc.
i can't imagine hollywood's best line toers would be any better.
 
Well this stinks. I've got it queued up in my list on Netflix. Y'all are poo'ing on my parade!
 
Towards the end it looked line they were mocking trump & trumpsters. The earlier scenes in the White House showed oics of dems, Clinton’s, etc. We laughed and it held our attention due to the mockery of the insanity of our politicians and mega corporations. We were surprised that Hollyweird actually made it.
 
Watching it now. Can't help but see parallels about how we scream about freedom and 2a and people just ignore us and call us crazy while talking about daily nonsense and social media. That's about all that sticks out to me so far
 
I'll look up a synopsis of it, but based on what little I've heard, It doesn't look to promising to me.

Now that I think about it, its kinda odd to me just how few movies or tv shows I watch.
 
I watched it last night and thought it was OK. It probably was a movie about climate change but I saw it as a parallel to where we actually are right now. Our government in bed with corporations. The way I see it, it is currently big pharma and vaccines.
 
We watched it last night. Both of us agreed it should have been half as long.
 
It's the only movie I did watch during my three week vacation.

I thought it was okay.

I thought the acting was okay, but I'll be honest, when DeCaprio's character loses it on the set, that may just have been one of his best performances. Haha.

I also noticed the "Don't look up" hats and the crowd being strikingly similar to MAGA. Nice jab, Hollywood.

I don't see me ever watching it again, but I don't regret the time and beer it took to watch it this one time.
 
Carolinatlc said:
I watched it last night and thought it was OK. It probably was a movie about climate change but I saw it as a parallel to where we actually are right now. Our government in bed with corporations. The way I see it, it is currently big pharma and vaccines.
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Agreed, & add BookFace & Twit.
 
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Anyone else watch it? I thought it was fairly entertaining and decent for what it is. I have no doubt that many of the character reactions to the main event would be reality these days if we faced the same. I’m sure this movie had some other underlying ”preachiness”, like climate change, but I tried to enjoy it for the situation the characters found themselves in. I also didn’t read too much into a few of the political bits. Just watch, don’t read into it too much and have a few laughs!
 
When DiCaprio's character finally flipped, I said to myself, "That might have been the best acting I've seen outta him in almost forever."
 
Sorry for creating a new thread and thanks for merging mine. I searched for this and it didn’t pull anything up!
 
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Anyone else watch it? I thought it was fairly entertaining and decent for what it is. I have no doubt that many of the character reactions to the main event would be reality these days if we faced the same. I’m sure this movie had some other underlying ”preachiness”, like climate change, but I tried to enjoy it for the situation the characters found themselves in. I also didn’t read too much into a few of the political bits. Just watch, don’t read into it too much and have a few laughs!
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I don’t get how they can make a bridge to climate change when the story is about a giant rock from outer space. So now they’re telling us the space rocks hunt down diesel fumes???
 
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I don’t get how they can make a bridge to climate change when the story is about a giant rock from outer space. So now they’re telling us the space rocks hunt down diesel fumes???
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I wasn’t saying directly linked, just a parallel message that they think man-made climate change is our “Earth killing asteroid” (though there are likely some out there who would literally try to link the two if we were in that situation). The “Look Up” crowd is the “climate change is so dire that we’ll all be dead, drowned and or blown away by massive storms if we don’t do something right now” side. They seem to be making fun of anyone who isn‘t in lock step with the “Greta How Dare You” side (the “Don’t look up” side in the movie). Just my take as Hollywood doesn’t seem to do a “just for entertainment“ movie.
 
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I watched it late-night a couple of weeks ago based on a few comments here. I kept waiting for it to get funny, but it never really did.

Unlike several members here, I felt it was a total waste of 2 hours and 20 minutes - and I'm pretty tolerant of bad TV after midnight.
 
I was shocked by the ending.
the cool media types had a terrible end. the more conservative types had a good dinner with family and friends, said some prayers and enjoyed things until it was over
 
I thought it was a parody of how the planet would react if this actually happened?

Funny / sobering / sad
 
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