I watched the “movie” “Don’t Look Up” the other night with my wife.  Wow.  I’m not sure how anybody involved with this thing could have deluded themselves into thinking they were actually making a movie.  There goes all respect that may have lingered in my heart for Meryl Streep, Leo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, and Jonah Hill.  They all outed themselves in this one.  This was the most overt piece of propaganda I’ve ever seen, and I’m still flabbergasted that something so obvious and smarmy could find its way to the screen and people are actually expected to enjoy it.

Lawrence and DiCaprio play the scientists here—honest, hard-working, afraid-of-the-limelight nerds who discover a comet heading straight for Earth!  Streep is the President of the United States, so obviously a caricature of Trump it’s not even funny.  She is advised/controlled by a Jeff Bezos/Elon Musk/Steve Jobs character who convinces her to try and blow the comet into tiny pieces so as to capture all the $140 trillion of rare metals and minerals inside, rather than just nuke it off course like NASA has planned.

The darn prez-supporting redneck conspiracy theorists don’t buy that a comet is coming and call it a hoax!  The good science-following liberals organize a campaign called “Just Look Up” once the comet is visible in the night sky, and host a huge benefit concert with a performance by Arianna Granda.  Yes, the actual singer performs an actual fake song in front of an actual fake audience in this movie, and we Netflix viewers are supposed to sit there happily and enjoy it!  We fast-forwarded through that one.

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