Looking at Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic scores the critics are quite divided in their opinion for it with the score averaging 50 out of 100. What's the matter? Was the movie not woke or leftist enough?
shareI don't get that either. The movie is pretty spot on.
shareMaybe they just didn’t like it? I work in an office of 8 and 3 of my coworkers are very conservative and they didn’t like it. 2 of the ultra liberals loved it and I loved it. It’s no masterpiece but I appreciate for what it is.
shareEven though the premise was serious, the movie was a good time. Pretty funny.
shareBecause this film disguises itself as anti-conservative, but in fact laughs from the lefties and cruelly ridicules the culture of worshiping the celebrities. Many people on the left did not understand this, including the actors who starred in the film. But the critics understood this perfectly. That's why they didn't like it ))))
shareIt laughs at people who don't listen to experts.
shareyes. it is a broad critique at our culture generally, but the main thrust is all the forces keeping us from looking up (at the obvious, at the facts, at our general condition to assess our system truly critically).
this film is a bit of a masterpiece of farcical truth, circa 2021.
In a world where it took a whole week for the entire world to go from being virusologists to military experts id say the movie laughs at everyone.
shareThe ‘Don’t Look Up’ Critics Versus Scientists Narrative Has To Stop
by Paul Tassi, Forbes
https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2021/12/30/the-dont-look-up-critics-versus-scientists-narrative-has-to-stop/?sh=489b9dc131fa
"...Don’t Look Up just didn’t work really well as a coherent comedy film. It’s overly long, the central joke that the meteor is really climate change is hammered into your head so many times that the unsubtlety is almost distracting. And yet the film isn’t quite screwball enough work on a level like something like Idiocracy does, despite its Oscar winning cast..."
"As a critic you can’t just give a 5 star review to every movie whose message you agree with. I see progressively political movies all the time that are simply…not good."
Why would critics like a movie that makes critics look like pants-on-head-retards?
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