funkervogt wrote: ↑Thu Nov 18, 2021 12:25 am
A Disney Alien film?
No.
Give it a chance.
I promise to watch at least the first 15 minutes of it after I download a free pirated copy.
Re: The Movies Thread
Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2021 9:26 pm
by wjfox
Re: The Movies Thread
Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2022 1:19 pm
by wjfox
I’m a climate scientist. Don’t Look Up captures the madness I see every day
Wed 29 Dec 2021 14.08 GMT
The movie Don’t Look Up is satire. But speaking as a climate scientist doing everything I can to wake people up and avoid planetary destruction, it’s also the most accurate film about society’s terrifying non-response to climate breakdown I’ve seen.
The film, from director Adam McKay and writer David Sirota, tells the story of astronomy grad student Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) and her PhD adviser, Dr Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio), who discover a comet – a “planet killer” – that will impact the Earth in just over six months. The certainty of impact is 99.7%, as certain as just about anything in science.
The scientists are essentially alone with this knowledge, ignored and gaslighted by society. The panic and desperation they feel mirror the panic and desperation that many climate scientists feel. In one scene, Mindy hyperventilates in a bathroom; in another, Dibiasky, on national TV, screams “Are we not being clear? We’re all 100% for sure gonna fucking die!” I can relate. This is what it feels like to be a climate scientist today.