Widespread tomfoolery ensues in new trailer for Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up
The star-studded, full trailer showcases complacent politicians facing the end of the world
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In Adam McKay’s new film, Don’t Look Up, two scientists try to get the government and the general public to care about the end of the world (sound familiar?). McKay called up all of his friends in Hollywood for the apocalyptic comedy based on real events that haven’t happened (yet).
In Don’t Look Up, Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence), an astronomy grad student, and her professor Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) make an astounding discovery of a comet orbiting within the solar system. However, the comet is on a direct collision course with Earth and no one—not even the president—really seems to care. Faced with an inconvenient and difficult fact to navigate, they do what the people of this country are so good at: Ignore the problem and hope it goes away.
With the help of Dr. Oglethorpe (Rob Morgan), Kate and Randall embark on a media tour that takes them from the office of an indifferent President Orlean (Meryl Streep) and her son and Chief of Staff, Jason (Jonah Hill), to the airwaves of The Daily Rip, an upbeat morning show hosted by Brie (Cate Blanchett) and Jack (Tyler Perry).
After their media blitz, Kate and Randall become a viral laughing stock for those who remain unworried. Timothée Chalamet appears as a gas station-lurking teenager who takes a selfie with the pair, and pop sensation Ariana Grande seems more interested in her tattoo of a shooting star than a deadly piece of space matter.
Written, directed, and produced by the prolific McKay, Don’t Look Up also includes performances from Mark Rylance, Ron Perlman, Scott Mescudi (a.k.a. Kid Cudi), Himesh Patel, Melanie Lynskey, Michael Chiklis, and Tomer Sisley.
The score for Don’t Look Up is written by Nicholas Britell, the Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning composer behind the banger that is the entirety of the Succession soundtrack. He’s also created the scores for Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk, Cruella, The Big Short, and The Underground Railroad. No big deal.
Don’t Look Up arrives in select theaters December 10, then debuts on Netflix December 24.
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So the talk show hosts are both named after cheese?Anyway, this looks like fun, although I do have to suspend disbelief that only these two astronomers would be able to see a planet-killer comet on its way to Earth. But I get it, it’s satire about how hard it is to get people to take climate change seriously.
I thought I was imagining it, but the talk show “The Daily Rip” is a spoof of Morning Joe. The fonts in the graphics looked familiar and I couldn’t figure out what was going on until I saw Cate Blanchett. She is supposed to be Mika Brzezinski. I kept thinking “this can’t be right” but several web sites and critics confirmed it. Cate must have studied footage of her because she has all Mika’s mannerisms down pat, the looking into the monitor constantly, tapping her pen and pretending to be writing something, telling her co host to be quiet to the overly made up face, etc. It’s kind of distracting. It’s not fun, it’s actually really sad. It’s about 45 min too long, and it certainly isn’t Anchorman. It’s as much an essay on climate change as it is on the pandemic.
This movie seems stressful.
Yeah, I just watched the trailer and it just kinda made me feel depressed more than anything else.
So Susan Orlean from Adaptation has become President? Well I’ve certainly seen worse.
Love McKay and essentially everyone here but we need more narratives that don’t read like alt-right delusions — incompetent government hides truth from the people. Only redeeming angle is that scientists are ostensibly the protagonists. Would legit love to see a movie where a government says something and, gasp, it turns out to be true.
I don’t think “incompetent government hides truth from the people” is an “alt-right delusion,” so much as a “historically documented fact.” The alt-right folks have enough legitimate delusions that we don’t need to avoid talking about, satirizing, and/or dealing with real problems just because crazy people also think they’re problems.Whether it’s criminal justice, civil rights, or foreign policy, when hasn’t our incompetent government tried to hide the truth from the people?
incompetent government hides truth from the peopleMe throwing my hands as wide as possible while turn around on every direction.You don’t need alt-right delusions narrative to consciously realize that.
Me throwing my hands as wide as possible while turn around on every direction. What are you pointing at, exactly?
People have this opinion almost exclusively based on the last 40 years of media. Post-Watergate we stopped trusting government to do things, and post-Reagan we stopped wanting government to do those things anyway, and every movie and TV show and book and stand-up act all lined up with the same idea, that “government is incompetent.”It’s likely you never lived during a time before this was part of the background radiation of popular culture, so it’s pretty hard to realize how influenced you are by it.
It’s just trotted out as a fact with essentially no actual evidence, just a lot of feelings that are constantly reenforced be other people’s feelings.Government being unfailingly good at its thousands of jobs (like, say, wastewater treatment, or social security disbursement) is such an expectation of daily life that any failing at any level is seen as total failure.Even under Trump, who was actively sabotaging government’s efforts to do things about the pandemic and potentially costing hundreds of thousands of lives, the active role of federal, state, and local governments in 2020 very likely saved millions more.
really happy yo see Michael Chiklis get some good stuff to do
Damn it, they’re really trying to get me to resubscribe to Netflix.
I fully admit that I’m a hater and that I just don’t like Adam McKay’s stuff but this looks like fucking torture for me. I want to deck every single one of these characters with a folding chair
Adam McKay is a good comedic mind who bought into his own bullshit after The Big Short. His work has become insufferable.
Looks embarrassing for all involved
This film looks like it suffers from similar defects in Vice, even more so, in that the tone does not match the seriousness of the material.