Real astrophysicist reacts to Netflix's Don't Look Up

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  @Andy_King_2711 · 4 years ago

  The scariest part of this wasn't even the comet, it was society.

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  @chrisallen3702 · 4 years ago

  I imagine this film started when someone said "people would take climate change seriously if it was an asteroid heading towards them in 6months" and then somebody replied "are you sure they would?"

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  @michaelsommers2356 · 4 years ago

  I think the townspeople of Springfield had the right idea: after Springfield was almost wiped out by a comet, they decided to burn down the observatory to make sure that never happened again.

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  @zdiegi5493 · 4 years ago

  Probably the most unrealistic part of the movie was when all the "Don't look up"-people started to believe in the comet and panicked as soon as they could see it in the night sky....there's no way in hell that 90% of those people wouldn't just immediately come up with a conspiracy theory to not have to believe in what they were seeing😅🙈!

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  @noneofyourbusiness3288 · 3 years ago

  This movie was genuinely chilling in a way. It almost felt like a horror movie, where you watch the main characters just helplessly running up against sheer incompetence of people in positions of power.

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  @toddharvey7089 · 4 years ago

  The tragic irony of the whole scenario was summed up so perfectly when the Leonardo character said, at the table with family and friends gathered around, "we really did have everything, didn't we?"

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  @DaveLH · 4 years ago

  The most depressing thing about this film was the idea that the only survivors are uber-wealthy idiots.  But then, I guess it's just a reverse variation on Douglas Adams' idea in his "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series that the entire human race is descended from the occupants of an alien spaceship that crashed on Earth millennia ago, all of whom were the home planet's rejected brainless middle-men.

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  @ivanpetrov5255 · 2 years ago

  I love that Dr. Becky can identify telescopes in just a glance.

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  @Jaymzmiller · 4 years ago

  That Brontoroc gag at the end had me laughing for an entire day. The setup to the joke just being slipped in like 40 minutes earlier, then the punchline to end the film, was just glorious.

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  @wooooster171 · 4 years ago

  As I watched this movie, the amount of frustration I felt almost made me stop watching.. but, that was the point. By the end I thought ‘wow, this was probably far to close to reality’ (if we were ever facing an ELE), the whole political, social media world cross over was scarily accurate

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  @Tone720 · 4 years ago

  I kept expecting the Bash drilling drones to malfunction in some way, I was expecting more of an ED-209 kinda thing though. Think my favourite line was from where people were coming up with conspiracy theories, and Kate says "Guys the truth is way more depressing, they're not even smart enough to be as evil as you're giving them credit for". Lots to enjoy in this film in any case.

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  @solartyrant9049 · 3 years ago

  Possibly one of the best modern sci-fi/sociopolitical movies. Handled the subject and themes really well

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