![]() ![]() ![]() It is all quite chillingly accurate and plausible: from experience you can relate to the misguided, self-absorbed agendas of these institutions and individuals and the powerlessness and irritation you feel in having to deal with them and their decisions. Politicians care more about how something will impact their polling numbers than saving mankind, the media cares more about finding something slanderous on a person than alerting people to imminent destruction, talk shows care more about sensationalism, the personal lives of vapid pop stars and on putting on a happy face than on news that actually matters to people, corporate opportunists who use even a planet-destroying disaster to make a profit and in so doing increase the danger (and how the politicians fall in line behind them). Written and directed by Adam McKay (The Big Short, Vice, The Other Guys, Anchorman), Don't Look Up is a funny, accurate examination of the warped priorities and agendas of the people who have the largest control over our lives. However, it is not just that and is far better than that. On the surface a disaster movie in the vein of Armageddon or Deep Impact. ![]() They manage to gain an audience with the US President, land on TV talk shows and have their story printed in the media but everyone seems to have other priorities. The comet will wipe out mankind in six months' time if nothing is done about it. Two astronomers discover a massive comet heading towards Earth.
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