Page 1 of Don't Look Up (Netflix)

This is getting a lot of attention recently, and hopefully for the right reasons, and it's polarising opinions, largely depending on who's watching it.

Short synopsis, Lennifer Lawrence's haircut spots a new meteor out in space. Leonardo DiCaprio's fatsuit figures out that it's on a collision course with earth, and we've got about 6 months intil it hits. So far, so Armageddon/Deep Impact.

Where this one differs is the terrifyingly realistic way in which the news is first reported, then dealt with by the also-realistic-if-we're-talking-about-the-last-guy President, played perfectly by Meryl Streep, with props to Jonah Hill, playing her completely inept but powerful by nepotism son, more interested in likes & subs than saving the planet.

It is funny, but for all the wrong reasons, because every time someone does something that 10 years ago would seem ridiculous, but you take a second look at it and realise yes, that's EXACTLY what would have happened.

Of note are Mark Rylance, almost unrecognisable as an Elon Musk/Jeff Bezos/Zuckerbeg-bot hybrid SPOILER:
who initially halts the first rescue mission after he finds out that the material the meteor is made of could make him even richer, so he compiles a plan to harvest the meteor instead of destroying it. Also, Ariana Grande pops up as a vacuous teeny-bopper whose on/off relationship with some guy is initially deemed much more favourable news & infinitely more exciting than the planet's impending doom.

Like I said, terrifyingly realistic.

Would recommend. Stick around for two post-credits scenes as well
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Not sure why Jennifer Lawrence's part has been reduced to/referred to as a haircut or DiCaprio a fatsuit but thought both were great in it - as they all were.  However, I agree with everything you've said.
The first post-credits scene is especially good.
I do think that if you ask 'many' people what the film is about they will say a comet crashing towards earth and totally not see the allegory of the comet/impending climate disaster...  Those people will also probably think the film was 'OK', rather miss the point and be surprised at the ending....

Ste

This item was edited on Sunday, 2nd January 2022, 21:01

I found it really hard to get into, Di Caprio and Lawrence were great, but  the film I thought suffered from not knowing what it was.

so it wants to be Black Mirror, meets Armegeddon, but then part of the black comedy goes a bit too Brass eye, shame as I'd happily spend an evening watching one of those 3 :(

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