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Ask HN: Thoughts on Don't Look Up?

This is about the Comet Doomsday movie: https://www.netflix.com/watch/81252357

personally I feel it has the same prescience as Idiocracy. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/

( 10 comments | 11 points | on HN )
Re:Ask HN: Thoughts on Don't Look Up? by mikewarot on Saturday December 25, 2021 @01:24PM (#29685584)
I couldn't watch it more than 1/2 way through... it too closely matches our current reality. Eventually I got calmed down enough to skip to the end, then I was able to watch the rest of it.

It's a good movie, but very disturbing to me. A strong story of how the donor class is ruining the world.

Re:Ask HN: Thoughts on Don't Look Up? by LinuxBender on Saturday December 25, 2021 @02:01PM (#29685941)
I also gave up on it before long. The characters had too much artificial tension for me. I could not watch them continuously allow themselves to be walked on. Being the potential end of the world, one need not follow protocol decorum rules, hell even laws.

Maybe I will give it another go at some point. They do have some great actors in this movie.

Re:Ask HN: Thoughts on Don't Look Up? by odonnellryan on Saturday December 25, 2021 @02:07PM (#29685999)
I thought the end was really good.
Re:Ask HN: Thoughts on Don't Look Up? by LinuxBender on Saturday January 01, 2022 @08:29PM (#29764798)
Gave it another shot. It's not bad at all.
Re:Ask HN: Thoughts on Don't Look Up? by nickmancol on Saturday December 25, 2021 @09:54PM (#29689241)
I enjoyed the movie, the idea of billionaires that cover their businesses around empty but positive words is remarkably close to our times. Also, incompetent administrations and politically correct media are well portrayed. The idea of a cataclysm like global warming denied by a lot of people in the USA makes me think to shout "just look outside".
Re:Ask HN: Thoughts on Don't Look Up? by ydoesitmatter on Saturday December 25, 2021 @11:12AM (#29684385)
It is honest. It is a very thinly veils reference to Covid which has proven that humanity is ready to give up before working together.
Re:Ask HN: Thoughts on Don't Look Up? by derbOac on Saturday December 25, 2021 @01:23PM (#29685576)
I thought i read somewhere it was mostly made before covid?
Re:Ask HN: Thoughts on Don't Look Up? by scottlilly on Saturday December 25, 2021 @01:45PM (#29685796)
I assumed it was a thinly-veiled reference to Global Warming.
Re:Ask HN: Thoughts on Don't Look Up? by LinuxBender on Saturday December 25, 2021 @01:57PM (#29685901)
That is what the producer said. They were interviewed on BreakingPoints recently. [1]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vxszkl6HBg

Re:Ask HN: Thoughts on Don't Look Up? by pohl on Saturday December 25, 2021 @02:02PM (#29685952)
It works for absolutely anything that requires urgent, collective action.