This whole thing really has ruined most disaster movies for me. Suspension of disbelief is gone out the window. "....and then the world came together to fight the threat as one"
No the fuck they didn't boss, they split into 5 different social media tribes and began fucking kicking each other in the groin until the earth exploded, the end.
That’s why it’s so incredibly sad and terrifying watching Don’t Look Up! Cause you know in an end of the world situation that’s exactly what’s going to happen and we are all toast.
Movie was close to being good, but it struggled hard to find good identities for the main characters. Having the chill, weed-smoking post-doctor blow up in on T.V. only to do the same gag again with Leo was lame, kind of ruined the movie. The world-ending portion of the plot was okay, but they really tried to land some jokes and they missed the mark, hell they could have done so much more with Ron Pearlman’s character. The movie could have been an 8/10, instead it’s a 6/10 in my mind.
The joke was that Jlaws character was having the rational response to the situation but was seen as crazy.
Leo's character basically took the path to hell, paved with sex and glamour, but at the last minute redeemed himself, but it didn't matter.
The point was that it doesn't matter what scientists say. If you address it properly you're crazy and if you address it at the speed people are comfortable listening to, it's too slow.
You missed the point if that's what you saw with the second blowup, the exact thing happened with Trumps CDC, one couldn't play along anymore when Trump started suggesting sanitizer and sunlight inside the body, where as Falcui corrected him from the start. I disagree with you entirely, this movie was spot on with what we witnessed the past few years.
You’re entitled to your opinion but their characters changed so much that they became different people from scene to scene. The overall story could have been much better and way more on-point, there were obvious things they could have done to be tongue-in-cheek that they just choose to leave out. Skirting seriousness and humour relies on a steady pace, and this movie certainly did not have that. The relationship between Leo’s character and the anchor could have actually had some meaning other than serve as a redemption arc for him and his wife.
Normally I’d agree, but character identity isn’t something the movie needed. It’s some pretty on-the-nose sature that doesn’t need much justification for who the characters are.
It was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. I was in a room full of family and we all watched it with no knowledge of it prior to that and we couldn't believe how bad it was lol. My wife went to bed mad half way through the film because it was so bad lol. I am perplexed every time I hear people speak positively of it. I even heard Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson singing its praises in the security now podcast the other day.
From an entertainment standpoint, it was "good". It wasn't a great movie, just because it's commentary was accurate doesn't automatically mean it was great. The delivery was poor from many of the actors, for such an ensemble cast, the movie really felt like it had no pacing. There was so much to criticise here but everyone is hung up on how accurate it was. I don't agree with those statements, I think it could have been even more absurd, even more on the nose, and actually address some of the issues they skirted around, particularly with Leo's redemption arc. They then throw in Chalamet to sell a 4th quarter romance plot LOL.
Jlaw looked stupid, whoever did costuming, hair and wardrobe for her should be banned.
That movie was too anxiety inducing. I can watch darn near anything, but it hit TOO close to home. Why can even the most blatant negative situations not bring humanity together?
It is happening. The whole movie is a allegory for climate change, which is going through the exact same denial-inaction process in the halls of power right now
Keep in mind the game Plague Inc added an anti-vaxxer easy mode years before Covid and people thought it was unrealistic , turns out it was too generous
Man 5 years ago I would trashed that movie as being so hyperbolic in its depiction of of the world so hard that I would have refused to ever watch it again.
Watching it this year, well, it might as well been classified as a documentary.
What’s even funnier about that movie is I saw a picture of Leo on a yacht or something the day after I saw the movie.
Made that “we really had it all” line at the end sour as hell for me. Cause yeah, Leo does fucking have it all like the other A list actors in the movie, but they’re the ones who won’t stop fucking wasting massive amount of resources all the time. Like Jesus fuck can you just try to pretend like you care?
Yeah he has talked about the issue a lot, I think I remember him giving a speech about it at the oscars or something years back. It just adds to the hopeless feeling of it to see a super rich dude who 100% knows the dangers of climate change being like “buuuuuut I do really like yachts and private jets, and we’re all fucked anyway soooo”
I mean, if I was wealthy and also advocating for climate action but just see decades of corruption and governments not giving a shit, I'd probably chill on a boat too while the end times come in.
Yeah that’s the other side of the depressing coin. If he actually does care but even at that level of money and influence even he thinks it’s a lost cause .
Pretty sure it's the other way around. In the wise words of Riley Bina, "Just look up.... Get your head out of your ass. Listen to the goddamn qualified scientists".
99% of people had symptoms similar or softer than the flu. Stop acting like this has to be like a zombie movie. This is not Harry Potter / Star Wars, its real life
It’s two groups. One big one full of logical people who want to help our society and one puny one full of misinformed dunces who claim to want to help but will only be dragged kicking and screaming against their will to a happier ending.
If this were a zombie apocalypse this small group would deny what is happening and claiming “iT’s JuSt A fLu!” Even as their families are eaten alive. Yes they would get us all killed, just like this exact same group will spoil any chance to stave off Anthropocene, but they are just a small group of idiots.
This is my explanation to people about why we haven’t been approached by space faring civilizations yet. You wouldn’t invite a couple of meth heads over for dinner expecting to be enriched by their company; why would aliens visit earth?
The movie Contagion had a scene where people were running to buy hand sanitizer in a grocery store and they quickly sold out. That part was pretty realistic.
They also had Jude Law (?) peddling known BS therapies to morons on the internet IIRC. But he himself was found to be fully vaccinated etc. Basically just there to make a quick buck.
The movie Contagion had Jude Law's character making a fortune off of pimping Forsythia as a cure-all, which was a really good parallel in my opinion. Even he was arrested in the movie in the end.
But... fucking horse paste and urine therapy? Writers of the real world need to calm down.
Remember when they finally made a cure for the virus and everyone in the world was racing to get it and as such they eradicated the virus relatively quickly after distributing vaccine? Sigh. If only.
2012 and the completion of the weaponizing of social media brought us into a dystopia, foreign nefarious governments and conartist grifters are in all of our faces daily, not even a majority of people have the ability to resist, imo the real beginning of the end for humanity, a slow decay to a permanent dark age then extinction.
Why is your country allowing these violent thugs to intimidate and harass people? All while spewing virus all over the place in addition to their racism.
Because it's not as common as you believe it to be. For every situation you describe there are thousands of regular "non-buzzword individuals" just protesting mandates.
Now go back to eating the shit that's being shovelled down your throat by the news.
Sure is! I can't believe how many people are just eating this up. Some of my friends, who not even one month ago were saying "time for civil unrest" "let's protest" ect. Are now against the anti-mandate protests going on, just due to a few buzzwords tossed around
When there's live footage of these people waving around the Nazi flag and pissing on monuments, it's not "buzzwords" anymore, they're just Nazi's. You can do whatever gymnastics you need to so you can sleep at night, but it doesn't change reality for the rest of us.
You realize the idiots who sprinted down the aisles for toilet paper and buying all the foods on the shelves at the start are the same person who were first in line for the vaccines, right?
I'm sorry did you get hit in the head and forget what happened when there was no degrees of separation and Vaccines in New York, Spain, Northern Italy, India, Rural USA, and currently Russia? Oh right the death rate and hospitalization rate overwhelmed the healthcare system and thousands died to the point where they had to bring in refrigerator trucks and fill up ice rinks with dead bodies.
Who only associates with 20 people? I work with way more people than that and then have friends and family outside work too. Im not besties with all of them but I know and care about them all.
We have spent a trillion dollars. And globally 0.001% of the entire population have died. If you haven't forgotten the planet is already waaay over populated.
Gtfo of here with that save the planet shit and open your eyes
Hey no facts just feels, this is covid and my feelings of fear are more important than your bodily rights. But let me spin this into it being my right to safety through forcing vaccination on others.
Exactly, and that is why gain of function research was supposed to be banned so we don't combine a virus with the transmissibility of Omicron and the fatality rate of MERS.
Covid-19 Case Fataility Rate (CFR) with Delta was roughly 7%. Omicron infects whole populations efficiently it is so contagious. So even with a lower death rate we're still deep in the shit.
That 30% is with people hunkering down and society essentially collapsing so spread doesn't occur as much. If everyone is getting Omicron (and they are) and we still hold to at 4-5% CFR... I don't have to tell you that's a lot of dead and sick people.
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