I thought it worked, as a movie, in the same way Dr Strangelove does. It's criticism and satire without a solution. As a society we all know the solution, we just don't want to do it.
The scene where the astronaut turns his spaceship around because some corporate flak insists it can be mined definitely resonated with me. "We have to compete with China" being the rationale was just the icing on the cake.
Still, there's a central conceit that Only Americans Matter. The cast is overwhelmingly white, with everyone else treated as comic relief. It's got a strong baseline white supremacist vibe. There's also a great deal of reliance on technology as a magical panacea (the handful of billionaires escaping the Solar System with sci-fi spaceships and cryogenics).
The whole movie felt like an attempt to do Deep Impact But Silly. Bleh.
The solution is to give up all our worldly possessions and live in pods, eat bugs, and get vasectomies. Unless you're a billionaire, then you can eat steak and drive the sports car.
The solution is to :vote: . I feel like the movie didn't really address the fact that the issue is systemic, to me it seemed like the main issue in the movie was that the president was inherently selfish and evil. The criticism of media also wasn't anything that a literal child wouldn't have thought of.
I don't know, the movie just seemed like it was extremely shallow,
I thought it worked, as a movie, in the same way Dr Strangelove does. It's criticism and satire without a solution. As a society we all know the solution, we just don't want to do it.
The scene where the astronaut turns his spaceship around because some corporate flak insists it can be mined definitely resonated with me. "We have to compete with China" being the rationale was just the icing on the cake.
Still, there's a central conceit that Only Americans Matter. The cast is overwhelmingly white, with everyone else treated as comic relief. It's got a strong baseline white supremacist vibe. There's also a great deal of reliance on technology as a magical panacea (the handful of billionaires escaping the Solar System with sci-fi spaceships and cryogenics).
The whole movie felt like an attempt to do Deep Impact But Silly. Bleh.
The solution is to give up all our worldly possessions and live in pods, eat bugs, and get vasectomies. Unless you're a billionaire, then you can eat steak and drive the sports car.
The solution is to :vote: . I feel like the movie didn't really address the fact that the issue is systemic, to me it seemed like the main issue in the movie was that the president was inherently selfish and evil. The criticism of media also wasn't anything that a literal child wouldn't have thought of.
I don't know, the movie just seemed like it was extremely shallow,