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[–] markr@lemmy.world 63 points 2 years ago (2 children) Cop28: an over the top parody of Don't Look Up. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] AA5B@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 child) I have to try again to watch it. The premise was already hitting you over the head from the beginning but the movie was too badly done to watch through. I really should though permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children) I had the opposite reaction. I thought the movie captured essence of the subject material so exceptionally that I don't want to see it again, it would just make me depressed. There's some truth to satire but in this case the satire ended up being too close to the truth. I think COVID did this movie a solid. Without COVID I probably would've dismissed the movie as too unrealistically over the top. But with COVID literally keeping me home there were just too many parallels for me to dismiss the movie as "it would never happen, we're better than that". Ugh, just thinking about it is getting me down. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago It was so on point in a lot of things, it wasn't satire, it was basically a documentary. I love that movie. And also hate it. For the same reasons as you do. permalink fedilink source parent [–] SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago That's also what I loved it the Death To 2020 and Death To 2021 movies by Charlie Booker. They're mockumentaries when they were released, but now, just 2 years later, they've gotten less "far from reality", to put it that way. permalink fedilink source parent [–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) we're for the jobs the comet will bring permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] markr@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Just think of all the flood barriers we will have to build! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 child) I have to try again to watch it. The premise was already hitting you over the head from the beginning but the movie was too badly done to watch through. I really should though permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children) I had the opposite reaction. I thought the movie captured essence of the subject material so exceptionally that I don't want to see it again, it would just make me depressed. There's some truth to satire but in this case the satire ended up being too close to the truth. I think COVID did this movie a solid. Without COVID I probably would've dismissed the movie as too unrealistically over the top. But with COVID literally keeping me home there were just too many parallels for me to dismiss the movie as "it would never happen, we're better than that". Ugh, just thinking about it is getting me down. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago It was so on point in a lot of things, it wasn't satire, it was basically a documentary. I love that movie. And also hate it. For the same reasons as you do. permalink fedilink source parent [–] SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago That's also what I loved it the Death To 2020 and Death To 2021 movies by Charlie Booker. They're mockumentaries when they were released, but now, just 2 years later, they've gotten less "far from reality", to put it that way. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children) I had the opposite reaction. I thought the movie captured essence of the subject material so exceptionally that I don't want to see it again, it would just make me depressed. There's some truth to satire but in this case the satire ended up being too close to the truth. I think COVID did this movie a solid. Without COVID I probably would've dismissed the movie as too unrealistically over the top. But with COVID literally keeping me home there were just too many parallels for me to dismiss the movie as "it would never happen, we're better than that". Ugh, just thinking about it is getting me down. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago It was so on point in a lot of things, it wasn't satire, it was basically a documentary. I love that movie. And also hate it. For the same reasons as you do. permalink fedilink source parent [–] SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago That's also what I loved it the Death To 2020 and Death To 2021 movies by Charlie Booker. They're mockumentaries when they were released, but now, just 2 years later, they've gotten less "far from reality", to put it that way. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago It was so on point in a lot of things, it wasn't satire, it was basically a documentary. I love that movie. And also hate it. For the same reasons as you do. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago That's also what I loved it the Death To 2020 and Death To 2021 movies by Charlie Booker. They're mockumentaries when they were released, but now, just 2 years later, they've gotten less "far from reality", to put it that way. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) we're for the jobs the comet will bring permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] markr@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Just think of all the flood barriers we will have to build! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] markr@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Just think of all the flood barriers we will have to build! permalink fedilink source parent