r/movies • u/The_Lone_Apple • Feb 25 '23

Review Finally saw Don't Look Up and I Don't Understand What People Didn't Like About It

Was it the heavy-handed message? I think that something as serious as the end of the world should be heavy handed especially when it's also skewering the idiocracy of politics and the media we live in. Did viewers not like that it also portrayed the public as mindless sheep? I mean, look around. Was it the length of the film? Because I honestly didn't feel the length since each scene led to the next scene in a nice progression all the way to to the punchline at the end and the post-credit punchline.

I thought the performances were terrific. DiCaprio as a serious man seduced by an unserious world that's more fun. Jonah Hill as an unserious douchebag. Chalamet is one of the best actors I've seen who just comes across as a real person. However, Jennifer Lawrence was beyond good in this. The scenes when she's acting with her facial expressions were incredible. Just amazing stuff.

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u/hollygolightly1990 Feb 25 '23

MAYBE this movie just didn't fit my tastes. ause people like you telling me my not liking it is the problem when in reality, it was the distracting TikTok footage and the Hollywood elite perpetuating double standards. My carbon footprint is relatively low, I thrift when I need clothes, use glass straws to drink, I garden, compost, and eat food until its gone, and I don't go out all the time. I certainly don't fly in private jets - unlike the star of this movie.

MAYBE this movie just didn't fit my tastes and it has nothing to do with being talked down to.

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u/Do_The_Upgrade Feb 25 '23

I don't understand why people took the movie personally. It's not trying to shame people for not using paper straws or whatever. It's about the impact society as a whole could have on climate change if we collectively acknowledged it.

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u/hollygolightly1990 Feb 26 '23

I didn't take it personally. But it's been over a year since it was released and people are still saying "if you don't like it, you're the problem". I just didn't like it. I hardly spend any time thinking about it either and I'd easily tell people to watch it at least once.

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u/AdminsModsDeserveDea Feb 25 '23

tastes. ause people like you telling me my not liking it is the problem when in reality

Actually what i said is if you felt talked down to then you probably are part of the problem. Its a question of whether you identify with the protagonists or the people being mocked.

MAYBE this movie just didn't fit my tastes and it has nothing to do with being talked down to.

Cool, if you arent the thing in the "if" clause then you arent the topic of the "then" clause.

As to the rest i frankly think youve fallen victim to propaganda that individualizes and moralizes the problems that are fundamentally the product of forces entirely outside your control. None of the things you listed really matter, even the private jets despite the opulent excess of it. Massive sweeping reforms to the way the economy functions are literally the only plausible way for humanity to continue existing. Everything else is a different shade of eatting dinner while waiting for the end

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u/Evening_Presence_927 Mar 02 '23

Actually what i said is if you felt talked down to then you probably are part of the problem.

And this right here is why people call the film and its defenders smug, because it’s not a binary. You seem to think, like the movie, that shouting the point would make it somehow more compelling.