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[–] markr@lemmy.world 63 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Cop28: an over the top parody of Don't Look Up.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 28 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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.

[–] TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months 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.

[–] SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months 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.

[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

we're for the jobs the comet will bring

[–] markr@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Just think of all the flood barriers we will have to build!