Don't Look Up... Question for Everyone
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I guess I would have to realize that Nietzsche was right. For all that staring we have done for thousands of years, looking out to the void and screaming "What is our role and purpose!?"... The answer comes... NOTHING.
Death's inevitable, I'd want to see it coming and would likely spend my last moments watching it happen.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Melancholia is another movie in the same genre but a bit of a different take.
I enjoyed the movie. Overdone in some ways as some has said, but the premise is strong enough to keep it good.
I’d want to know. I’d like the challenge and reward of rising above the fear.
I’d want to know. I’d like the challenge and reward of rising above the fear.
Yeah we got some laughs out of it, and generally enjoyed it. Relatable to the times, in a hollywood way.
A surprise would be better I think. No point worrying about something so far out of my control.
A surprise would be better I think. No point worrying about something so far out of my control.
Weird. I got a completely different answer, diametrally opposed to "nihil".
I would want to know, but I wouldn’t want the masses to know. I am part of the masses, so I guess I wouldn’t want to know. You know?
I didn’t love the movie, but I liked it and I’m glad I watched it. Overdone at times, I wanted to scream at the characters at times, and wanted to fast forward through some cringier parts at times. It really did highlight the worst parts of our culture that the last 10 years or so have been highlighting already.
I really liked the beginning and I especially the end. The end stuck with me.
“We really did have everything, didn’t we?”
I didn’t love the movie, but I liked it and I’m glad I watched it. Overdone at times, I wanted to scream at the characters at times, and wanted to fast forward through some cringier parts at times. It really did highlight the worst parts of our culture that the last 10 years or so have been highlighting already.
I really liked the beginning and I especially the end. The end stuck with me.
“We really did have everything, didn’t we?”
Comet McNaulty was the most amazing thing I have seen in my life time. No one knew that was coming.
I watched it, my wife loved it, it made me physically uncomfortable watching the stupidity and media culture unfold. Wife claims that this is testament to how well it’s done. It is well done, but wayyy overdone for me. The parallels between real people (Trump, tech megacorps) are a bit too much, could have been subtler or absent altogether, and be a smarter, more nuanced satire/dark comedy instead of farce that it was. Like say…the masterpiece that is Dr Strangelove.
I feel even that overdone aspect was on purpose, reflecting that it IS a clever and well done film, 202x does not do subtle, everything has to be overdone and in our faces.
As for me, if the end of the world was conclusive I would off myself way before that, feeling sad about my kids, that’s all.
I feel even that overdone aspect was on purpose, reflecting that it IS a clever and well done film, 202x does not do subtle, everything has to be overdone and in our faces.
As for me, if the end of the world was conclusive I would off myself way before that, feeling sad about my kids, that’s all.
Movie was garbage. On to the question though.
life is terminal anyway. I’d rather know.
life is terminal anyway. I’d rather know.
Yes I would want to know.
I would want to make sure I spend as much time with my family as I could, hear my kids laugh, see them smile, and hold my wife.
That and get a few more posts into the Secret Santa thread of course.
I liked the movie, it was very clever, and pretty solid acting. (Kate Blanchett my favorite)
I tried watching "Silent Night", which streamed in December, it's a film of a similar vein, but I couldn't get thru it. Its much more dark. (and Don't Look Up was a little grim at moments...)
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I tried watching "Silent Night", which streamed in December, it's a film of a similar vein, but I couldn't get thru it. Its much more dark. (and Don't Look Up was a little grim at moments...)
Keira Knightley Celebrates Christmas at the End of the World in 'Silent Night' Trailer (Video)
Keira Knightley in her latest film "Silent Night" plays a woman celebrating with family like it's the last time -- except it very much is.
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See, with my luck, I’d be spared with a few hundred very pretty women. The first year or so would be great. I’d be the hero screwing them all to save humanity. But, then when they realize that I was sterile from a vasectomy in my late 30’s, I’d be relegated to just mowing their yards and taking their garbage out. 
For those that entertain the idea of surviving an apocalypse, there’s a really good one, called Odd Billy Todd, set in Tennessee. It is geared towards bunker and survivalist culture, but very entertaining.
I think you nailed it here. The overdone aspect, especially. That's how I viewed it, as overdone on purpose. Subtlety and nuance don't work in our world much anymore, and those who understand the subtleties and nuances of the world's issues are often, by force, reduced screaming like insane people out of frustration.
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DiCaprio improvised that! It stuck with me, too, and was kind of the best part of the movie.