{"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!"}, {"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}, {"text": "Your films are covertly political.", "username": "Troler", "id": 2}, {"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}]}, "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"}