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.

Comments

[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?"

[sabotabby]

So she's quite good in it and thought the haircut that everyone makes fun of in the movie is super cute.

It's, I think, a little too real to be watching under the current circumstances. It made me wish it had come out in 2019.

[kore]

Oooh the last half hour or so just ended me -- I have a similar sensitivity to the depiction of the world ACTUALLY ending. With Station Eleven, she got around a lot of that by flashforwarding and stuff like "it will be the last plane to take off" but it wasn't graphic.

But it was a great film. I loved it. I'd easily give it noms for best performances and screenplay.