I dunno, I liked it. The whole thing about "listen to the experts" and "believe science" aspects of the movie is that the professor guy whose supposed to be the leader of that movement gets co-opted by the system that's fucking up, by heaping media attention and praise on him, and appointing him to a leadership role where he doesn't have actual control of anything the minute a "platinum donor" decides they shouldn't blow up the comet. I don't know how you can watch this movie and not come away with the idea that the whole system was rotten and needed tearing down.
Yeah, it's definatly a nihilistic and cynical movie, but that's how I'm feeling about the world these days, so I guess it resonated with me.
From reading reviews of it, most of the people who didn't like it took the administration as a Trump stand and the people as MAGAchuds because it was too on the nose. The poeple who liked it took it as a generic administration stand it and our society as being misled by these awful people, and therefore crippled in our ability to respond to large scale disasters, and found it frighteningly realisitic.
I do think it was a mistake to not make Streep explicitly a democrat trying to find middle ground with the right in the face of an apocalypse, because that would be way more on point. It was also too US-centric, and only implies that we use our might to thwart other attempts to do anything good in other parts of the world, but it's kind of a satire focused on the US specifically, so... :shrug-outta-hecks:
Yeah at first I thought Meryl was supposed to be more of a Hillary type corporate Democrat, the more it became a 1:1 allegory for the Trump admin the less effective the satire felt
As deeply online subversive counterculture scum we have access to a lot of narratives about how to tear a rotten system down. We know about Haiti and Jamaica and France and China and Vietnam and a hundred others. Cuba, for fucks sake. What does the average American know about Cuba? Castro bad, old cars, communism = poverty. They have no idea how the war went or how the Cubans fought Batista or that Batista even existed. They don't know what to do. They don't know who needs killing and who needs to do the killing. They're helpless because any possible narrative of revolt has been lovingly stripped out of the zeitgeist.
Obviously we need to make a movie that's just a two hour compilation of Exxon executives being shot in the head to a catchy upbeat sound track.
You know Castro broadcasted public executions on television, how exactly are you supposed to make people cheer for capital punishment that won't backfire like a Robespierre merry-go-round is a mystery that revolutionaries will forever struggle with.
I dunno, I liked it. The whole thing about "listen to the experts" and "believe science" aspects of the movie is that the professor guy whose supposed to be the leader of that movement gets co-opted by the system that's fucking up, by heaping media attention and praise on him, and appointing him to a leadership role where he doesn't have actual control of anything the minute a "platinum donor" decides they shouldn't blow up the comet. I don't know how you can watch this movie and not come away with the idea that the whole system was rotten and needed tearing down.
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Yeah, it's definatly a nihilistic and cynical movie, but that's how I'm feeling about the world these days, so I guess it resonated with me.
From reading reviews of it, most of the people who didn't like it took the administration as a Trump stand and the people as MAGAchuds because it was too on the nose. The poeple who liked it took it as a generic administration stand it and our society as being misled by these awful people, and therefore crippled in our ability to respond to large scale disasters, and found it frighteningly realisitic.
I do think it was a mistake to not make Streep explicitly a democrat trying to find middle ground with the right in the face of an apocalypse, because that would be way more on point. It was also too US-centric, and only implies that we use our might to thwart other attempts to do anything good in other parts of the world, but it's kind of a satire focused on the US specifically, so... :shrug-outta-hecks:
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How hard would it be to deepfakes Hilldawg on to Streep?
Biden honestly isn't all there, he's a puppet, he couldn't do anything if he tried.
Yeah at first I thought Meryl was supposed to be more of a Hillary type corporate Democrat, the more it became a 1:1 allegory for the Trump admin the less effective the satire felt
At least Jonah Hill survived, poor baby.
As deeply online subversive counterculture scum we have access to a lot of narratives about how to tear a rotten system down. We know about Haiti and Jamaica and France and China and Vietnam and a hundred others. Cuba, for fucks sake. What does the average American know about Cuba? Castro bad, old cars, communism = poverty. They have no idea how the war went or how the Cubans fought Batista or that Batista even existed. They don't know what to do. They don't know who needs killing and who needs to do the killing. They're helpless because any possible narrative of revolt has been lovingly stripped out of the zeitgeist.
Obviously we need to make a movie that's just a two hour compilation of Exxon executives being shot in the head to a catchy upbeat sound track.
You know Castro broadcasted public executions on television, how exactly are you supposed to make people cheer for capital punishment that won't backfire like a Robespierre merry-go-round is a mystery that revolutionaries will forever struggle with.
Literally Fauchi