Don't Look Up (Adam McKay, December 24 2021) Movie • Page 11

Y’all are inspiring me to go rent Old, get really high, and go to town on it

 

It's a really divisive movie. I showed it to my students and the split was about 50-50. Of course, of all my Letterboxd follows, you are the harshest on it.

 

Parts of this were fun and entertaining and some parts were incredibly bad. Felt like it was six hours long. I don't know. A very okay movie with baffling parts. I think the pure vitriol surrounding it is more annoying than the movie itself though. Its not one of the worst ever but some of the choices it makes are truly confusing.

 

if it makes you feel any better, i loved it compared to this lol

 

shyamalan is a high concept b-movie filmmaker who has a v strong and individual visual sensibility, saying his movies have bad acting in them…. of course they do

 

i’m a very broken person who thinks that “bad” acting can be good, though

 

bad acting can be good but it can also be bad

 

idk for the most part it’s fun

 

I’m gonna have to watch (and rewatch) some Shyamalan films in 2022, aren’t I.

 

Log off

 

idk thought this was just kinda fun. too long and too obvious and it lost the fun pacing it had at the beginning but overall I liked it alright

 

timothee saying "I fuckin love fingerling potatoes"

 

I was gonna skip the beach that makes you old but now I think I have to see it

 

I’m watching this right now and it’s like I’m watching 2 different movies at once, neither one of them good, none of them as terrible as all the hate it’s getting.

 

I've been shitting on this but only am actually watching it tonight.....

I fit the stereotype to a t and I've met the real life versions of JLaw's character but god, the "engineer who can't socialize or present info" is tired and unrealistic at this point and in real life they would simply just not use Leo's character.

Similarly the "tech CEO with autistic tics and mannerisms" is a frustrating offensive caricature.

I can't believe I decided to watch this instead of Worst Person in the World or Drive My Car.

 

That McKay tweet is insane lmao. The bad reviews of my movie are just from people who care so little about climate change that their brains can’t compute what my movie is doing.

What a weirdo man

 

i really don't get the Rylance performance at all

 

The adage that that you don't notice good editing but notice bad editing rings true in this. The sequence of Leo and JLaw boarding the plane was just bizarre.

The entire metaphor for climate change also falls flat to me, IMO the reason people don't care about climate change is entirely because of how long term it is, and satire aside people would act completely differently IRL with a "you're all going to die in 6 months" threat

It is nice actually noticing Boston more than I usually do

 

I'm pretty sure it's mostly a Zuckerberg = Robot joke

 

The whole time I couldn’t help but compare that character to Alexander Skarsgard’s character in Succession. With worse writing that character would’ve fallen into that category, but they played it as a tech CEO that has amassed so much wealth and power that he’s alienated himself from normal human life. Whereas Rylance’s character there’s nothing beyond “ha ha the joke is that he’s so weird.”

 

i get the joke, it couldn’t be less subtle. just think the performance is incredibly odd and from a different movie than the “humor” McKay tries - and fails - to land in the rest of the movie

 

the character seems closer to Skarsgard’s canadian prime minister in the long shot, but bad instead of Great

 

It came off to me as Steve Jobs by way of Joe Biden. Either way, weird and on a completely different than the rest of the cast.

 

Nicholas Brittel's score is pretty great.

I also can't really read what McKay is trying to say with (what I assume) are parallels between Fauci and Leo's character having celebrity status

 

I turned it off shortly after this scene lol. Was willing to give it a shot despite the general reception, but I got through that and thought nah, not on my time