Comment on Don’t Look Up director says ‘half a billion people’ have now seen film despite critics

Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• orbitz@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I found it difficult to watch when i did due to the situation, maybe not right in covid but not out of it either. As depressing as it made me feel at points (girlfriends choice of movie so had to sit through it but we alternate so only fair) I found it amusing that while plainly satire the actual dialogue and actions were pretty much what at least one democratically elected administration showed during a huge crisis. If it aired 10 years previous it’d probably be in the bin of crappy spoof movies for being so ridiculous and maybe get a cult folowing, yet it was practically a documentary with the situation changed.

  I can understand not feeling comfortable due to the triggering in it though, it wasn’t exactly a fun watch even if it was a comedy.

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  • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Oh I’m disgusted by that behaviour irl, so i’m disgusted by it on screen. I do not think i’m the target audience for this film, i consider climate deniers to be traitors against humanity

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    • orbitz@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It wasn’t till I read you original comment that I remembered how awful I felt at one point watching it, I get it and understand not wanting to subject yourself to that sort of feeling willingly. Thankfully it passed and I was able to watch, but I won’t say I enjoyed it, just that in an art sense it has merit.

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  • JamesTBagg@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Ha. Remember when Idiocracy was just a funny movie making fun of us and not prophecy.

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    • HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      We’re going to legalize prostitution? Have it so that you can get into any high paying job you want without a college degree while still automating the work no one wants to do? Put the smartest man in the world in charge of our worst problems, which we are acknowledging exist?

      Seriously, Idiocracy is a utopia compared to reality, I will die on this hill.

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      • JamesTBagg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I guess you skipped the first half of the movie. You might be exactly who the movie is making fun of.

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• PixellatedDave@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  For me it was the end scene which broke me.

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  • jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Idk I loved watching them eat the rich

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