If you are ever in the mood for really lousy doomsday satire, you can watch "Don't Look Up." Or better else, don't. Viewership might encourage the film maker Adam McKay to make more and that will just compound the issue.
This mess, which has infected both theaters and Netflix, is uninteresting, unfunny, and unwatchable. McKay has made a cottage industry career of picking through very current events and making movies about them. As if the real events aren't funny enough. You may have seen his movie about the 2008 economic crash or that other ditty about Vice President Dick Cheney. I was bored by them and, not surprisingly, was completely bored by "Don't Look Up."
Not that he didn't spend oodles of money on the production and the cast. I mean, this one stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence. Well, wastes them is the more likely expression. They play two scientists who know that a giant comet is on a collision course with Planet Earth. That's pretty much the sum total of it all. But, pieced together with shots at mostly Conservatives with a Trump-like President played by Meryl Streep. By the way, is it me or has she now lowered her standards like Robert DeNiro and will now do anything for a buck?
I digress. This is liberal Hollywood's take on mass destruction and that, in itself, must be a redundancy. There's even a character very reminiscent of Anthony Fauci, which is amazing because this tripe was allegedly produced pre-COVID.
I don't know about you, but I look to the movies for an escape, not to embrace things and bon mots you can hear on MSNBC or Fox News. McKay does nothing to advance the medium in which he works and it's all so dreary and tedious.
But he and the rest of the cast think it's hilarious. That is so sad.
Maybe they should all watch "Dr. Strangelove" the next time it's on TCM.
LEN'S RATING: Zero stars.
Dinner last night: Leftover Chinese food.
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