2021 Media Roundup: Film

[sabotabby]

 Late addendum to my film roundup post. 

Don't Look Up was absolutely my favourite film of 2021 and one of the best films I've seen in ages. I will be happy to take questions at the appropriate time.

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[moonblossom]

I seem to recall good things about Don't Look Up...

[mistersmearcase]

I do and don't want to watch it. On the "do want" side: a weird fondness for Jennifer Lawrence based on the fact that she was good in the stupid Hunger Games movies and she grew up where I did and seems like an ok person, but she hasn't been in a lot of stuff I had any interest in so I haven't seen her in a movie in years. And people are saying it's good.

On the "don't want" side: end of the world stuff doesn't roll off me. I sometimes enjoy it anyway. I liked Severance ok and loved Station Eleven. But like, totally unrealistic/supposed to be a comedy "Seeking a Friend for the End of the World" made me hide under the bed. I think I stopped watching. I'm just too able to get into the headspace of "what would it be like to know that it's actually all over?"

[curgoth]

Is the film title a Brunner reference?

[kore]

We saw it and loved it! It was great.

(Film critic: "But climate change isn't LIKE a big meteor with six months. It's all about industrialized living and a real solution would force us to change our way of life and live with other people we don't know in mind and this film has NOTHING to do with that!" and I'm just like....//boggle)

Also a good one after the past two years: "If this was REALLY happening and the science was real they would be giving briefings on the news every night, not on some kind of glorified talk show"

(Remember when Fauci HAD TO GO ON TALK SHOWS because the WH would not LET him on news shows like Maddow? Let alone nightly news broadcasts? He was fucking doing phone-in shows and podcasts. But nooo, so unrealistic and stupid!)

[rdi]

We watched the other night. I found it funny because it's accurate, and L found it not funny for the same reason.

I did derive extreme pleasure from the implied fate of Not!Elon and his cohorts.