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   Lynn McGuire to Ninapenda Jibini   
   Re: "Don't Look Up" on Netflix   
   27 Dec 21 14:17:42   
   
   XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.movies.current-films   
   From: lynnmcguire5@gmail.com   
      
   On 12/26/2021 8:55 PM, Ninapenda Jibini wrote:   
   > djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote in   
   > news:r4r39I.1BME@kithrup.com:   
   >   
   >> In article ,   
   >> danny burstein   wrote:   
   >>> In  Lynn McGuire   
   >>>  writes:   
   >>>   
   >>>> I just watched the new movie "Don't Look Up" on Netflix.  With   
   >>>> Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill,   
   >>>> etc.  The movie is the theater of the absurd.  Two astronomers   
   >>>> find out that a comet is going to hit the Earth in seven month   
   >>>> and people spend the entire seven months arguing about whether   
   >>>> the comet is real or not. Just the opposite of the "Deep   
   >>>> Impact" movie".   
   >>>>     https://www.netflix.com/title/81252357   
   >>>   
   >>>> Warning: the ending is NC-17 (full frontal nudity).   
   >>>   
   >>> Is that supposed to be a warning or a sales point?   
   >>>   
   >> For me, it's a warning; thanks, Lynn.   
   >>   
   >> (Not to mention that it sounds like a stupid plot.)   
   >>   
   > It sounds like it's Hollywood's idea of social commentary on the   
   > pandemic, anti-vaccine idiocy, and climate change in general.   
   >   
   > Like all things Hollywood does, it's done poorly, and stupidly.   
      
   It is a farce.  Who would walk out into a new planet naked and unarmed ?   
      
   Lynn   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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