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"it's, like, summing up the entire media as if it were "Regis And Kelly." It's not actually an accurate portrayal of the media"

It's not even accurate. The only paper they can talk to is the NY Herald, and that THROWS THEM OUT when the NASA person throws them under the bus. But gee, someone apparently feels a little stung!

If anything, the movie kind of fell down at portraying how scientists now try to get out a lot of information on Twitter and sharing knowledge that way -- I'm thinking of Trevor Bedford at the very start of the pandemic -- but that actually would have been hard to film, and taken away from the comedy.

"one, we just had a massive climate summit in Glasgow. Like, this is a collective action problem. That's what climate change is."

THE ONE ALL THE HUNDREDS OF GIANT OIL AND GAS LOBBYISTS ATTENDED? THAT ONE?

People also seem to be ignoring that the other countries do try a launch at one point which results in a terrible disaster, and the actual NASA launch is CANCELLED when Not!Elon Musk finds out there's potential profit, and the launch at the end is of his unproven private mining missile which doesn't work either.

"I mean, there's that little performance by Timothee Chalamet as, like, a Christian skateboarder. That's pretty funny."

Yeah no. IDEFK. -- And his character isn't comic, he is very clearly a Holy Fool type, and at the end he recites the blessing over their literal last supper and is told "you got church game!" It's a small part, but it's not just a goof. In fact I would argue almost nothing in that movie was a throwaway goof.