{"title": "Don't Look Up 2021 is Melancholia, but a comedy", "timestamp": 1760574460.529138, "description": "A lot of people see the 2021 [Adam McKay]() film *Don't Look Up* as something that fails to communicate the message of climate change well enough. McKay stated that the movie was written specifically to point people at the absurdity of the \"climate crisis\". And yet the film's allegorical comet / asteroid doomsday plot seems to fail at giving it justice. For once an asteroid that is about to destroy the planet is nobody's fault. While the climate change is somebody's fault. But if you look at the movie relatively to other disaster flicks of the same type ( like [Armageddon](/reviews/armageddon_is..._fuck__i_love_michael_bay) and [Melancholia](/reviews/melancholia_is_the_best_science_fiction_film_ever) ) you see something rather interesting.", "author": {"avatar": "https://blenderdumbass.org/pictures/favicon.png", "bio": "Aka: J.Y. Amihud. 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The metaphor is spot on.I thought the movie was glorious!", "p_index": {}}, {"text": "c:0\r\n\r\n@kcarr2015@mstdn.social I was going to talk about it. But I was writing this review tired. So I forgot to tie it up nicely. There is the whole Peter CEO person wanting to mine the comet plot, which kind of is trying to address the same issues of fault. But I suppose I was more interested in the Steven Spielberg theory. ", "username": "blenderdumbass", "id": 1, "p_index": {}}, {"text": "Your films are covertly political.", "username": "Troler", "id": 2, "p_index": {}}, {"text": "c:2\r\n\r\n@Troler Are they \"covertly political\"? I was under the impression that [my films](/films) are obviously political. ", "username": "blenderdumbass", "id": 3, "p_index": {}}, {"text": "> Before McKay was making political comedies he was making regular comedies, like the 2006 film Talladega Nights which I'm unable to watch. The film appears to be a spoof comedy about racing, but something about the jokes in it is so utterly cringe that I am unable to sit through the movie. Yet, I stupidly enjoyed both The Big Short and Don't Look Up. Obviously McKay adds politics, which makes the whole cringe thing suddenly amazing. But he also starts shooting completely differently. On Talladega Nights he uses regular mid 2000s way of shooting comedies. There is nothing particularly interesting about it cinematically. Suddenly on The Big Short he frees the camera a bit. The film becomes more spontaneous. It becomes more about capturing the scene, rather than manufacturing one. Which is, by the way, a very similar technique to how Lars Von Trier shoots his movies.\r\n\r\nI'm going to watch The Big Short today, so I'll double check whether it really is flowy.\r\n", "username": "Troler", "id": 4, "timestamp": 1785587237.8406572, "p_index": {"2": 11}}, {"text": "> McKay wants you to understand things. And laugh at those things you understand while doing so\r\n\r\nQuite a tight balance to make. I know another director which is masterful at this, 'tis [Kihachi Okamoto]()", "username": "Troler", "id": 5, "timestamp": 1785587420.9351428, "p_index": {"2": 13}}, {"text": "> That is when the movie introduces our tech-billionaire villain character Peter Isherwell played by Mark Rylance. The same Mark Rylance that played the BFG in Spielberg's The BFG and a different tech CEO in Spielberg's Ready Player One.\r\n\r\n[Mark Rylance]() seems to have a career playing villains, also, don't forget he played the creep Sully in [Bones and All](https://blenderdumbass.org/reviews/Bones_And_All)", "username": "Troler", "id": 6, "timestamp": 1785587669.9953458, "p_index": {"2": 19}}, {"text": "> Which is kind of a yet another thing that makes McKay kind of like Lars Von Trier. Von Trier isn't making much either. I guess you have to be Spielberg or James Cameron ( with his Avatar films ) to get people into their sits for something unrelated to politics. And that gives you the ability to shove politics into those people's faces. But you have to do it somehow, without them noticing it much. It shouldn't be preachy. It should be well crafted. So that the audience, looking at the film, will starts forming the idea, you want them to get, themselves.\r\n\r\nThere does not seem to be a single strategy to get people to care, except for caring yourself. That's to say, if I can show that the movie was was made with care, then others are more likely consider to consider it. This is how Stanley Kubrick succeeded with *[2001: A Space Odyssey]()*. 'Twas so impressive, that it drew people to watch a social commentary on technology and transportation industry.", "username": "Troler", "id": 7, "timestamp": 1785588284.84849, "p_index": {"2": 37}}]}, "languages": {}, "hashtags": ["dontlookup", "climatechange", "adammckay", "film", "review", "movies", "cinemastodon"], "not_ai_proof": "", "tab": "reviews", "url": "https://blenderdumbass.org/reviews/don_t_look_up_2021_is_melancholia__but_a_comedy", "likes": ["Troler"]}