![]() ![]() For that alone, writer-director Adam McKay should be commended. Be sure to like and subscribe.“Don’t Look Up” exemplifies a vanishing breed in mainstream cinema: the Great American One-Off, a movie designed not as a sequel, brand extender or franchise builder (or launchpad for same), but as something simply to be enjoyed in one sitting – full stop, with no lifetime multiversal obligations attached. “What’s up, y’all? I’m the last man on earth,” he wearily says while streaming to absolutely no one. The film catches up with one more character at the very end: Jason Orlean, whose mom left him behind on Earth, somehow emerges from the rubble with smartphone in hand. Whatever you do, don’t pet them!” Isherwell says as a hungry pack of these beasts surrounds them. The thing then eats her face and kills her. The naked bunch of survivors walks out and Orlean (whose bare butt is a body double, for the record, not Streep's) goes to touch a cute and colorful ostrich-like creature. The ship floats through space as the credits begin to roll, and 22,740 years later, it lands in a new home. Meanwhile, Isherwell and Orlean board a spaceship (with 2,000 other wealthy people) programmed to find the nearest inhabitable planet. When Isherwell and Orlean’s last-minute comet-splitting mission fails miserably, Randall's family hosts a last "thanksgiving" with Kate and her new skater boyfriend (Timothée Chalamet) as the comet wipes out everything. Randall then goes back on the show and launches into a curse-filled screamfest that'll feel familiar to fans of the “I’m mad as hell” rant from “Network”: “If we can’t all agree at a bare minimum that a giant comet the size of Mount Everest, hurtling its way toward planet Earth is not a (really) good thing, then what the hell happened to us?!”įolks get a comeuppance several millennia in the making Later, the married professor becomes a media phenomenon, has an affair with Blanchett’s character and becomes Orlean’s chief science advisor adviser until he sees how completely unscientific Isherwell’s plan really is. Kate freaks out on the air and becomes a meme, but Randall (whose favorables are off the charts) is labeled “America’s sexiest scientist.” They're booked on a morning show and the smiley hosts (Cate Blanchett and Tyler Perry) don’t take them seriously, either: Pop star Riley Bina's engagement (Grande) to her ex, DJ Chello (Scott Mescudi, aka Kid Cudi), is much more interesting. DiCaprio has his ‘Network’ momentĪfter their first White House meeting, Kate and Randall go to New York City to leak the comet news. Morning-show hosts Brie (Cate Blanchett, far left) and Jack (Tyler Perry) don't take the doomsday warnings of Randall (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Kate (Jennifer Lawrence) seriously. “I say we sit tight and assess,” a grinning Orlean says, leaving the brainiacs in the room shocked and awed. Randall warns the comet has “the power of a million Hiroshima bombs,” but Orlean dismisses the dire threat since midterm elections are three weeks later, and this kind of news would lead her party to lose control of Congress. However, she and her people – including her idiot chief-of-staff son, Jason (Jonah Hill) – couldn't care less. candidate Kate Dibiasky (Lawrence) predict the large comet's direct hit on Earth in six months and 14 days, they and Teddy Oglethorpe (Rob Morgan), head of the Planetary Defense Coordination Office (which is a real thing!) go to the White House to tell President Janie Orlean (Streep) about this extinction-level event. Meryl Streep stars as President Janie Orlean, a head of state more concerned about keeping her political power than avoiding an impending apocalypse in "Don't Look Up." As president, Streep is not a big fan of factsĪfter Michigan State professor Randall Mindy (DiCaprio) and Ph.D. Here are the five best and nuttiest of the bunch: In addition to a galaxy of stars including Ariana Grande, Meryl Streep, Ron Perlman, Mark Rylance and Jonah Hill, McKay’s satire is full of increasingly crazy sequences. McKay doesn’t mess around with taking his theory to a very destructive conclusion – and, as it turns out, beyond. But they're met with distracted indifference about the incoming space body – at least until it sparks division along political lines, including comet deniers. In the new film (now streaming), Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence play astronomers trying to warn America about the imminent apocalypse. (Spoiler: It would be kind of the same way we've responded to a pandemic: not great!) With his Netflix doomsday comedy “ Don’t Look Up,” writer/director Adam McKay ( “Vice”) posits how the American public would react to a planet-killing comet hurtling our way. Spoiler alert! The following post discusses important plot points and the ending of “Don’t Look Up.” ![]()
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