{"id":25912,"date":"2021-12-09T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T12:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/?p=25912"},"modified":"2021-12-09T12:00:54","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T12:00:54","slug":"dont-look-up-review-adam-mckays-depressing-netflix-comedy-slogs-toward-the-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/?p=25912","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Don\u2019t Look Up\u2019 Review: Adam McKay\u2019s Depressing Netflix Comedy Slogs Toward the Apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nLeonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, and a galaxy full of stars are dulled by a witless satire about the end of the world. In the beginning, there was light. And then, there were movies. And then, not long after that, there were people who watched those movies and snarked, \u201cWell, that\u2019s two hours I\u2019ll never get back\u201d (though it wouldn\u2019t be surprising if that barb originated before the advent of multiple-reel cinema, maybe with some monocled jackass who wasted an entire minute of his life at a screening of William Heise\u2019s 1896 short \u201cThe Kiss\u201d only to discover that there wasn\u2019t any tongue). As Charlie Kaufman is fond of pointing out, however, every two hours is two hours that you\u2019ll never get back. It doesn\u2019t matter if a movie is good or bad or anything in between: At the end of the day, we cannot hoard our time.<\/p>\n

And yet, for all of the truth contained in that wisdom, certain films make it almost impossible to shake the feeling that cinema \u2014 the most palpably fourth-dimensional of all popular art forms \u2014 possesses an unrivaled ability to make us appreciate how we can waste it. Adam McKay\u2019s \u201cDon\u2019t Look Up\u201d is nothing if not one of those films.<\/p>\n

In the beginning, there was light. And then, there were movies. And then, not long after that, there were people who watched those movies and snarked, \u201cWell, that\u2019s two hours I\u2019ll never get back\u201d (though it wouldn\u2019t be surprising if that barb originated before the advent of multiple-reel cinema, maybe with some monocled jackass who wasted an entire minute of his life at a screening of William Heise\u2019s 1896 short \u201cThe Kiss\u201d only to discover that there wasn\u2019t any tongue). As Charlie Kaufman is fond of pointing out, however, every two hours is two hours that you\u2019ll never get back. It doesn\u2019t matter if a movie is good or bad or anything in between: At the end of the day, we cannot hoard our time.<\/p>\n

And yet, for all of the truth contained in that wisdom, certain films make it almost impossible to shake the feeling that cinema \u2014 the most palpably fourth-dimensional of all popular art forms \u2014 possesses an unrivaled ability to make us appreciate how we can waste it. Adam McKay\u2019s \u201cDon\u2019t Look Up\u201d is nothing if not one of those films.<\/p>\n

In the beginning, there was light. And then, there were movies. And then, not long after that, there were people who watched those movies and snarked, \u201cWell, that\u2019s two hours I\u2019ll never get back\u201d (though it wouldn\u2019t be surprising if that barb originated before the advent of multiple-reel cinema, maybe with some monocled jackass who wasted an entire minute of his life at a screening of William Heise\u2019s 1896 short \u201cThe Kiss\u201d only to discover that there wasn\u2019t any tongue). As Charlie Kaufman is fond of pointing out, however, every two hours is two hours that you\u2019ll never get back. It doesn\u2019t matter if a movie is good or bad or anything in between: At the end of the day, we cannot hoard our time.<\/p>\n

And yet, for all of the truth contained in that wisdom, certain films make it almost impossible to shake the feeling that cinema \u2014 the most palpably fourth-dimensional of all popular art forms \u2014 possesses an unrivaled ability to make us appreciate how we can waste it. Adam McKay\u2019s \u201cDon\u2019t Look Up\u201d is nothing if not one of those films.\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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