Movies & TV

Movie is good but it still went over chuds' heads, despite how in-your-face it was with the climate change allegory. Leonardo DiCaprio himself is a major advocate for stopping climate change and he jumped at the chance to work on Don't Look Up. Reactionaries talk about how the film is really about Coastal Elites implementing the woke agenda and nobody wants to believe western civilization is being destroyed by the Illuminati. When they do admit it's about climate change and the hubris of our leaders/the bourgeois, they do it to review bomb on IMDB or Rotten Tomatoes.

The movie was seen as heavy-handed and over the top, yet that wasn't enough.

That's it, yeah. It's decent, the main criticism is that it's too heavy-handed but I think it has to be to make the point.

No. It’s a fine comedy.

But the rage against anyone even implying there could be a climate crisis sends a certain segment into a rage.

Sorry For Smoking was produced by Elon Musk, weirdly

Network is more comedic and heightened and satirical (e.g. "tell the maoist party that they wont see a dime until this show reaches syndication"). The Post and Spotlight are both way more grounded.

The Big Short was such a unique film because it treated those big fucking idiots at the commanding heights of the bourgeois economy as the morons and hucksters they were, it allowed itself to be grounded but also biting and comedic - whereas usually we collectively pretend the big guys controlling finance or whatever are at the very least smart even if amoral. And The Big Short was the perfect subject matter for "no, these guys are morons and idiots, and they stole all your money even though they fucked everything up"

Okay I tried to dig into wtf was supposed to be wrong about the reformers. When I read what they wanted - shit that works, in battlefield conditions, that can be maintained and produced at scale like the Soviets, that the US military budget was overbloated and focused on fancy gadgets that don't actually operate - I struggle to understand what they were wrong about. Like, the F35 is a fucked up plane that was supposed to serve the Army, the Navy, be a bomber, be a fighter and that can't fly in rain or lightning or a high angle because the stealth coating gets washed up and it cost over a trillion dollars to develop. American planes are well known to be hangar queens, which is great for the military industrial complex cause you send out a million parts forever.

I dont disagree necessarily, bu they're dumb because they're military brass and to get that bigh up in the military you gotta be at least a little bit of a moron pencil neck