Movie Review: Don't Look Up. Deep Impact meets Idiocracy

[Seymour Flops]

So this movie in its descriptions seems to be a remake of a Deep Impact (1998) which had Robert Duvall, and Tea Leoni as a plucky reporter and Morgan Freeman as The President:

Deep Impact (1998) ⭐ 6.2 | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

2h | PG-13

www.imdb.com

I really liked that one, even though I can't stand Tea Leoni for some reason. Tea Leoni, trying to dig up dirt on President Morgan Freeman, comes across news that they Earth will be destroyed by a comet unless mankind works together to break up or deflect the comet. Morgan was great as always, as the president trying to keep the reporter from causing a panic while cooly guiding the Earth through the crises and its aftermath.

"Don't Look Up" has exactly the same premise. But this time, it is 2021. The world is run by post-baby boomers.

So the president is too busy worrying about the optics of her (Meryl Streep, of course) latest Supreme Court nominee being outed, first as a nude art model, and then as a softcore porn actor, the scientists are to busy worrying about their mood-altering medications, and the media is too occupied with Kardasian-like celebrities to pay attention to the fact that the Earth has a 99.87 percent of an extinction level event, of we don't do something to stop it.

I recommend it. Two Thumbs up!

 

[1srelluc]

The premise was great but it was very poorly executed.....I love movies like that but I'd not watch it a second time.....Reminded me of "Men who stare at goats" on the boring scale.

 

[candycorn]

It was a very good movie. It put Trumpism in a proper light.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

So this movie in its descriptions seems to be a remake of a Deep Impact (1998) which had Robert Duvall, and Tea Leoni as a plucky reporter and Morgan Freeman as The President:

Deep Impact (1998) ⭐ 6.2 | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

2h | PG-13

www.imdb.com

I really liked that one, even though I can't stand Tea Leoni for some reason. Tea Leoni, trying to dig up dirt on President Morgan Freeman, comes across news that they Earth will be destroyed by a comet unless mankind works together to break up or deflect the comet. Morgan was great as always, as the president trying to keep the reporter from causing a panic while cooly guiding the Earth through the crises and its aftermath.

"Don't Look Up" has exactly the same premise. But this time, it is 2021. The world is run by post-baby boomers.

So the president is too busy worrying about the optics of her (Meryl Streep, of course) latest Supreme Court nominee being outed, first as a nude art model, and then as a softcore porn actor, the scientists are to busy worrying about their mood-altering medications, and the media is too occupied with Kardasian-like celebrities to pay attention to the fact that the Earth has a 99.87 percent of an extinction level event, of we don't do something to stop it.

I recommend it. Two Thumbs up!

It was an absolute mess and almost everyone but liberal critics hated it.

 

[hjmick]

It was a metaphor for climate change. Entertaining to be sure, but the metaphor was lost on most...

 

[Sunni Man]

The movie was a big hit with the lefty liberal loon crowd. ...

 

[iamwhatiseem]

It was a metaphor for climate change. Entertaining to be sure, but the metaphor was lost on most...

It wasn't lost at all. It was obvious.
What was lost was creativity and good story telling.

 

[Flopper]

So this movie in its descriptions seems to be a remake of a Deep Impact (1998) which had Robert Duvall, and Tea Leoni as a plucky reporter and Morgan Freeman as The President:

Deep Impact (1998) ⭐ 6.2 | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

2h | PG-13

www.imdb.com

I really liked that one, even though I can't stand Tea Leoni for some reason. Tea Leoni, trying to dig up dirt on President Morgan Freeman, comes across news that they Earth will be destroyed by a comet unless mankind works together to break up or deflect the comet. Morgan was great as always, as the president trying to keep the reporter from causing a panic while cooly guiding the Earth through the crises and its aftermath.

"Don't Look Up" has exactly the same premise. But this time, it is 2021. The world is run by post-baby boomers.

So the president is too busy worrying about the optics of her (Meryl Streep, of course) latest Supreme Court nominee being outed, first as a nude art model, and then as a softcore porn actor, the scientists are to busy worrying about their mood-altering medications, and the media is too occupied with Kardasian-like celebrities to pay attention to the fact that the Earth has a 99.87 percent of an extinction level event, of we don't do something to stop it.

I recommend it. Two Thumbs up!

How many movies have their been about the of destruction earth by comets, meteorites, aliens, nuclear war, volcanos, earthquakes, earthmen from the future, floods, fire, global warming, an ice age, God, Satan, zombies, teenage mutants from outer space, etc, etc..............

 

[Seymour Flops]

How many movies have their been about the of destruction earth by comets, meteorites, aliens, nuclear war, volcanos, earthquakes, earthmen from the future, floods, fire, global warming, an ice age, God, Satan, zombies, teenage mutants from outer space, etc, etc..............

Many, plus a few about evolved apes.

Some of them were great, some not so great.