 Alright, let's see. Don't look up. Don't look up as a movie on Netflix. I think it's doing quite well. It's supposedly a comedy satire. Here's the story. Now, if you're going to watch it, they're going to be lots of spoilers. I'm not going to recommend the movie. While I think they're bits that are funny and the bits that are insightful, I do not recommend the movie. Don't look up as a story of a couple of scientists who discover that an asteroid is, within six months, going to hit planet Earth and basically end all life on planet Earth. It is a kind of event that would destroy all life. We've seen movies about that in the past. One of my favorites is Armageddon with Bruce Willis. That was a fun movie. That was a lot of fun. I'm actually going to watch it now again just to get the taste of Don't Look Up Out of My System. They immediately go to, of course, the President of the United States. The President of the United States is a woman who is somewhat modeled after Trump. She has Trumpist tendencies. I think the best part of the movie is her expressing those Trumpist tendencies will sound a lot like Trump and COVID. Basically, she downgrades this. Well, we'll have to think about it. We'll figure it out. Now, the US has plans to deal with such supposedly in the movie, send up nuclear weapons, blow up this thing, divert it away from Earth. There are plans, but the President, there's a midterm election. You know, she doesn't want to hear about it. She's not interested. Even though there's one government scientist who is engaged and really, really believes these scientists and agrees with them and wants to do something at the political level, at the top level, they're not interested. They don't care. This will blow over. They've heard many scarce stories in the past. Then they go on TV and television is portrayed as it is, as this shallow superficial, you know, one of the, they go on a morning talk show and they tell the story of, you know, what's going to happen and nobody takes them seriously. They all think they're a joke. They all think they're crazy and they're much more interested in the celebs. They're much interested in the late who's self-eat with who or who breaks up with whom or who's singing to whom. And there's no interest in the end of the world. No interest whatsoever. Then the President gets into political trouble. In order to divert attention from the political trouble, she figures, okay, let's do this. And she has now the two scientists from Michigan State, which the politicians poo poo because it's not an Ivy League school. She gets confirmation from Ivy League professors that this is the case. Ivy League professors you never see. I mean, one of the, well, anyway, we'll get to that. And now she's ready to do something. So they mount this whole program where they're going to send, you know, into space these nukes, they're going to deflect the asteroid away from Earth. They launch, at the last minute, this tech, this tech guru, this tech entrepreneur convinces the President to abort the mission, which they do at the last minute. It turns out that this asteroid has lots of 200 trillion dollars worth of rare Earth materials on it. And what he wants to do is set up there, these robots that are going to blow it up in a way, break it up so that these pieces fall to Earth, that then the United States can collect them and be richer by 200 trillion dollars. He's got Stanford professors and these professors who are vouching that this is legit. I don't think they chose Stanford by accident. And therefore, let's go for it. And of course, he's the biggest donor to the party of the President. So the President decides to go for it. The two scientists at the beginning know this is crazy. It's insane. We had a plan. We can deflect this. Now, for a little bit of money or for a lot of money, you're going to put the entire human race at risk. I mean, this is a life-ending event, a world-ending event. But of course, it's actually doesn't sound that bizarre because once you start seeing the scenes, particularly with the politicians, you go, yeah, this could happen. So I mean, the high tech stuff is the entrepreneur is BS. Anyway, they fight this, the one scientist from kind of their inside, the other scientist becomes this advocate on the outside. She's ridiculed and nobody wants to believe them. And there's a whole movement that starts. So at some point you can see the asteroid heading towards Earth. You can see it in the sky. And people look up. And one of the key things that the scientists said is just look up. You can see it. It's there. It's heading towards us. It's going to kill us all. And a whole movement starts. And this is the best part of the whole movie. A whole movement starts called Don't Look Up, promoted by the president, saying, if you don't look, it's not there. Just don't look. They're just trying to scare you. They're just trying to manipulate you. So don't look up. Don't look at the statistics regarding vaccines. Don't look. It's better you don't know. That way you won't know what you're missing. You won't know that you're risking your life by not taking them. Don't look at the stats. Don't look up. Burry your head in the sand. There was a great episode of, all right, you know the show. Anyway, an animated show that makes fun of everybody about Islamic terrorism after 9-11. And in the show, the whole town decides that instead of confronting the threat of Islamic terrorism, they're going to bury their head in the sand. So they import a bunch of sand and they decoles and they all bury their heads in the sand. And it was perfect. It was perfect. So what you get is, what you get is all these people not looking up. Anyway, you know, I won't spoil the ending for you, but Earth is eviscerated at the end. The high-tech guy's suggestion does not succeed and all life is destroyed one way or the other. That is the movie. And it's supposed to be an analogy, a metaphor for global warming. Now, I think it sounds more like COVID to me, just on a different scale. Like, you know, the president sounds like Trump, exactly like Trump. It's just going to go away. Don't look. Let's pretend there's no virus. If we just believe there's no virus, like a miracle, it will go away. He said this several times in February and then later in May or June, he said this, it'll just go away. Don't worry about it. Don't look. Don't think. It was very good in capturing certain elements of popular culture that is unserious, doesn't care, is not interested in any truth or reality. It was very good at capturing the Trumpist blindness that don't look up phenomena, the conspiracy theories. There are lots of conspiracy theories during the movie. So it's very good at capturing certain elements of American society that exist today that are sad. But it's way too negative on human beings. It's way too negative on mankind. We don't see any other scientists coming to support these two scientists who are struggling to convince everybody, whereas every scientist in the world would do it. Almost every scientist in the world would do it because their life's at stake and it's not really questionable. It's not even like COVID. This is a everybody dies kind of event, not with the probability, I think it was 99.6%. People are overwhelmingly stupid, almost everybody. The only nice guy who's not part of the inner circle of the two scientists is a religious nut who the scientist falls in love with. It's just a horrible movie and of course it's a way over simplification of climate change. Only the very, very nutty, crazy, weird marginalized scientists believe that climate change is a catastrophe that's going to wipe out all human life on earth. That's a marginal group and it's significantly marginalized group. Most scientists think that yeah, you can have some flooding, you can have some warming, you can have some changes in climate, local and globally, weather patterns will change, agricultural patterns will have to change, ice caps will change, lots of things will change. But and people might die and bad things will happen, but it's not the end of life on earth. Only like Greta and a dozen of his supporters think that. There's no 99.6% consensus around this is existential for the human race. It's not, it just isn't existential. Even if you believe that the climate is warming, it's just not existential. We can and will deal with much bigger issues. So the movie is such a negative portrayal of the human race, of human beings. I have no problem portraying politicians as the scumbags that they really are left and right. It doesn't really matter to me. Of course she, the president was the only politician in her aid where the only politicians portrayed nobody else. There were no alternatives just like there were no alternative scientists. Of course the entrepreneur is portrayed in a ridiculous fashion, superficial, shallow, stupid, willing to risk the entire evisceration of the human race to make a buck. Rejects the idea that he's a businessman because he's not a businessman. He's all these other things. It's just a horrible, disgusting, ugly caricature of businessman and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who are generally on the side of the filmmakers politically and yet here are made out to be the most horrible people imaginable. How did they get so, how did they produce so much? How did they create so much if they're this horrible? There was not one positive, really except the two scientists. Weren't any positive human beings in the whole thing? The media people were horrible. The people in the streets were horrible. And you know, where are all the other scientists? Where the responsible media people, even if it's an alternative media, where are they? Doesn't exist. So it just was way too negative. And while, again, a few scenes were funny, I don't think they're funny. It was just a sad movie. Sad that people have this view of humanity. Sad that a movie like this with lots of movie stars, movie stars you'll recognize, movie stars that are big, Merrill Lynch playing the president and a big in the world of comedy, that so many movie stars would be involved in such a, I think a pretty bad movie. Just as a movie. This is the movie, Don't Look Up. Don't Look Up. So I watched it because it seems like a cultural phenomena. I watched it because the left is going gaga over this. Well, no, that's not true. I mean, actually the reviews in the newspapers were almost all negative. I mean, nobody thinks this is a good movie. Nobody thinks it gets a point across. It just doesn't get it. Terrible sense of life. Terrible explicit philosophy. Terrible view of mankind. Not that funny, creepily real in portraying, I think what the Trump administration looked like and to some extent what any political administration looks like. The way they think or don't think as the case may be. JJ Jigspeas asked me, do you feel the same about Dr. Strangelove? What's the difference between the two, the Strangelove succeed and satai, we don't look up fails. Yeah, I think Dr. Strangelove does succeed, much better. I mean, Dr. Strangelove is a very well made movie, I think partially because Peter Sellers is magnificent in it playing, I don't know, 75 different roles. Dr. Strangelove is focused on just one issue. It's again focused on completing competence and pathetic nature of the political class. I think it's smarter, the dialogue is better. It doesn't make such a grandiose statement about the culture, the world, people out there, and everything else. So I think it's less, in a sense less ambitious. And look, I don't agree with the ideas in Dr. Strangelove. Dr. Strangelove has real flaws, its whole view of I think a certain model equivalency between the United States and the Soviet Union, its view of nuclear weapons as evil, no matter what, I think are all wrong and disgraceful and, you know, the Stanley Kubrick, but it's a much better made film, much, much better made film. And I haven't seen it in decades, but I should watch it again now. Thank you for listening or watching the Iran book show. If you'd like to support the show, we make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me. You get value from listening, you get value from watching. Show your appreciation. 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