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   wlahearn@gmail.com to JTEM   
   Re: Don't Look Up sucked   
   30 Dec 21 00:54:22   
   
   From: wlah...@gmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, December 30, 2021 at 3:49:14 AM UTC-5, JTEM wrote:   
   > Doesn't surprise me that it's so popular. It's not   
   > the least bit coherent, just like modern culture,   
   > so the fact that the story leaps tracks multiple   
   > times goes by entirely unnoticed.   
   >   
   > Find someone who liked it and ask them what   
   > the film was about. Then have fun for the next   
   > few hours torturing them by throwing the story's   
   > contradictions in their face. As I put it elsewhere...   
   >   
   > You: "Was the President ignoring the comet,   
   > denying it even existed or exploiting it politically?"   
   >   
   > Them: "Yes."   
   >   
   > And it's not like her position evolved. She was   
   > exploiting it AND denying it's existence at the   
   > same time!   
   >   
   > It was just plain dumb.   
   >   
   Or, you are politically naive and have no sense of humor. I can understand   
   people hating movies for all kinds of reasons. This movie is hated by   
   humorless nitpickers.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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