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Don't Look Up was an interesting one. Some thought it was hilarious, some got depressed.

• mjhay 3y ago
  It wasn't terrible, but the satire should have been much subtler. The cast of all A-listers came across as self-indulgent and annoying to me as well.
  • thrdbndndn 3y ago
    I enjoyed the film overall, but I agree that the satire was quite heavy-handed, particularly with Jonah Hill's character. I understand that it was intended to be over-the-top, but it was too much for me.
  • wharvle 3y ago
    Yeah, the folks in my group who watched it had such a negative reaction I didn’t bother with it. But as I recall the complaint wasn’t that it was depressing, but that it was a movie length “do you get it? Do you get the bit? We better do it harder just to be sure.”
• logicchains 3y ago
  That film was particularly interesting as (maybe unintentionally on the part of the film-makers) both sides of the political spectrum thought it was satirizing the other side.
• me_me_me 3y ago
  This movie doesn't work tonally. It tries to be both serious and satirical. And it fails to make both of those world work together. In the Idiocracy what made it work is that the satire applied to the whole world except of the main character that we as audience identified with. You explore the boundaries of the new absurd reality with them. There isnt anything like that in Dont Look Up, its a strange mix of our current day reality with crazy illogical morons.