The Offspring gave me a month’s subscription to Netflix for my birthday. [Don’t ask] The first thing I watched was a MAGNIFICENT movie called ‘Don’t Look Up’. It’s a movie about the end of the world, and I wish I could make everyone watch it.
If you get the chance, please watch this movie. It’s a mirror that shows how grotesque our world has become.
cheers,
Meeks
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Meeka's Mind 
January 23rd, 2022 at 2:20 am
You guys want some real world news that doesn’t get played by the MSM and globalist, check out freeworldnews.tv or banned.video
I fear the end of humanity approaches. The hour is late.
We must think for ourselves and tune out of the government control propaganda via Big Tech, Big Pharma, Twisted Governments and their Globalist minions.
It’s
Time
Please
Awaken
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January 22nd, 2022 at 1:44 am
Sounds like a good movie.
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January 22nd, 2022 at 4:57 pm
It’s not a ‘feel good’ movie. Not Hollywood at all, but I truly believe it is one of the most important movies of our times.
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January 17th, 2022 at 3:06 am
I loved that movie, Andrea! As weird as it sounds, I was glad everyone died in the end. No miracles, no supermen, no sudden last-minute solutions. What a great warning about climate change and the need to act before it’s too late.
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January 17th, 2022 at 10:11 am
Me too, Diana. I admit to feeling surprised when it happened – I really did expect there to be a last minute reprieve – but for once, Hollywood kept it real. Maybe that was DeCaprio’s doing? I know he’s passionate about the environment and climate change.
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January 18th, 2022 at 12:52 am
Tons of great actors too. I loved the super serious message embedded in the parody. Sadly, “the parody” is actually happening in the US. It’s so weird here.
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January 18th, 2022 at 8:07 am
I agree, it’s a mirror with a great big crack through the middle. The same thing is happening in all of the Western democracies, but not to the same extent. I really, truly hope we rethink this version of capitalism coz it ain’t working. I fear for democracy. 😦
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January 18th, 2022 at 8:08 am
Me too. The US is on the brink of losing it.
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January 18th, 2022 at 12:25 pm
-hugs- I hope sanity returns when/if the pandemic ever ends.
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January 19th, 2022 at 12:15 am
I hope so too. Not feeling optimistic though.
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January 19th, 2022 at 10:47 am
Yeah, I know. It seems as if even the evidence of one’s own eyes is no longer enough to convince some people. We’re going through a reverse-Renaissance. 😦
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January 20th, 2022 at 1:10 am
I heard a great new report about young people having their heads on straight. We just need to hold out about 10 years until they’ve taken over as a voting block.
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January 20th, 2022 at 9:32 am
10 years…-sigh- Well, at least we’ll still be around when they do. It’s odd to think that we’re living through a real trough in human history. 😦
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January 20th, 2022 at 9:37 am
Isn’t it? I never would have believed it.
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January 20th, 2022 at 4:25 pm
I always used to wonder how ordinary people felt during those historical ‘bad times’. Now I know.
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January 21st, 2022 at 1:05 am
No kidding. There’s some talk here about a civil war. I don’t think it will happen, but OMG.
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January 21st, 2022 at 11:44 am
Ouch. Before Jan. 6 I would have said it simply wasn’t possible. Now I’m not so sure. I don’t really know what /other/ factors led to the civil war between the north and the south, but the polarization now seems very extreme. Let’s hope that post pandemic things will settle down a bit.
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January 22nd, 2022 at 1:06 am
Fingers crossed, but I think its more about Trump and right-wing fear-mongering than the pandemic. This started in the 80’s with Reagan and has gotten worse every year. Remember Bush (20 years ago) started the Iraq war based on a lie of WMDs and people backed him because they were afraid. Ugh. This is all so dystopian and weird!
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January 22nd, 2022 at 5:10 pm
Mmm…as Matthew would say, that was about when neo-liberalism began. I do remember Reagan, and Bush, and they weren’t great, but in retrospect they seem almost benign.
If this is the end-game then it is Very dystopian. I used to think how luck my generation was not to have to live through a world war. I guess our luck ran out.
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January 23rd, 2022 at 12:57 am
We’ll see. There are still more good people in the world who want peace and cooperation than psychos who want to destory everything. We just need to raise our voice and vote!
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January 23rd, 2022 at 10:40 am
I used to believe that, Diana, but the last two years have dented my view of humanity. Or maybe that’s still a hangover from Twitter. Or maybe I’ve come to realise that all the good people I’ve met in RL and online are not ‘all there is’. I don’t know. I really don’t know.
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January 16th, 2022 at 12:11 pm
Absolutely loved it 😀 … I sat through the entire thing with a kind of horrified gleeful feeling.
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January 17th, 2022 at 10:18 am
Hah! Me too, me too! One of my favourite bits is right near the end when they do look up, see the comet, and a jobbo says “they lied!”
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January 17th, 2022 at 11:37 am
Heh, heh, heh … yeah, like it was such a surprise to him. 😀
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January 18th, 2022 at 8:09 am
I really had no idea this post would start such a great discussion. 😀
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January 16th, 2022 at 3:39 am
Neil deGrasse Tyson called that movie a a “documentary”.
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January 16th, 2022 at 9:01 am
It could almost be one, couldn’t it?
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January 14th, 2022 at 12:02 pm
The end of the world story is a common trope in science fiction movies because it appeals to the disaster aficionado in all of us. Slowly, steadily, the movie creeps on our sense of reality until we’re convinced it’s for real. The heart of darkness, and such a sound as will freeze the blood, fill the movie theater. It is time for the film to begin.
— Catxman
http://www.catxman.wordpress.com
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January 15th, 2022 at 7:57 am
Welcome and…yes! As a scifi fan from way back, the premise of the story didn’t feel new, but the ending was, at least for a Hollywood type movie. I was very, very impressed. 🙂
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January 16th, 2022 at 12:09 pm
And the post credits scene … I giggled at that. 😀
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January 17th, 2022 at 10:20 am
lmao – I almost missed it! Was just about to turn it off when I noticed that there was still quite a bi6t of time left on the timeline. Laughed myself silly at the prediction coming true. 😀 😀
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January 14th, 2022 at 10:51 am
I just loved Mark Rylance’s take on tech moguls 😀
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January 14th, 2022 at 11:12 am
Yes!!!! I was gobsmacked at all the parallels they snuck into the storyline. The ending though…that left me feeling gutted. Not the final, final ending, the ‘real’ ending. Best movie out of the US in decades. My respect for Leonardo DiCaprio has gone up again. Loved him in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape; love him in Don’t Look Up. 🙂
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January 14th, 2022 at 8:53 am
I watched it a couple of days ago. Brilliant rip on the current zeitgeist & I was impressed with the accuracy of the science (mostly). I’m blogging on the science of comet impacts tomorrow.
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January 14th, 2022 at 11:23 am
Yes! lol I know very little so I’m looking forward to your post. 😀
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January 14th, 2022 at 6:30 am
Happy Birthday! 🎉💞
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January 14th, 2022 at 11:24 am
-giggles- Thanks, Bette. 😀
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January 14th, 2022 at 5:08 am
Yes! We watched it and it was amazing.
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January 14th, 2022 at 11:25 am
High Five, Ellen! I’m still amazed at how good it was.
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January 14th, 2022 at 2:37 am
So the one month gift will turn into a lifetime subscription for you! Welcome to the Netflix addicted!
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January 14th, 2022 at 11:25 am
LMAO! Ssssh. I already have my gaming addiction, not sure my wallet would survive a second one. 😀
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January 13th, 2022 at 9:33 pm
Bang on in terms of the social commentary. Good script but thought the middle dragged a bit (okay, full disclosure: I may have nodded off for a bit). 😌
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January 14th, 2022 at 11:34 am
-grin- I stayed awake. 😉 To be honest I couldn’t have looked away if I tried. I kept trying to second guess who or what was being parodied all the way through. I think I’ll have to watch it again just to see the bits I missed the first time around. Do you think the Meryl Streep character was meant to Trump? I did see a photo of what looked like Streep with Bill Clinton, but the character seemed to ‘dumb’ to be Hilary?
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January 13th, 2022 at 7:07 pm
Watched it…and yes, Narcos and the other ones are excellent see you next month …yes…x
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January 14th, 2022 at 11:35 am
-giggles- don’t jinx me! My wallet is groaning already. 😉
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January 14th, 2022 at 12:00 pm
Haha…x
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January 13th, 2022 at 6:44 pm
I thought the script was pretty good; very sharp writing and that always makes something watchable. Squid Game is really violent but a fabulous critique of our prehistoric capitalist paradise. Also, if you enjoy true crime, Narcos is another well-written show 🙂
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January 14th, 2022 at 11:36 am
I’ll check both of them out. I almost hope I don’t like them though. I can see myself getting hooked so easily…-sigh-
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January 14th, 2022 at 6:46 pm
Yes, it can be tough, so it needs a bit of discipline, e.g. I will only let myself watch something when I’ve written a minimum 500 words that day. But when that happens, I usually just keep writing 🙂
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January 15th, 2022 at 7:54 am
lmao – is that a kind of reverse psychology?
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January 15th, 2022 at 8:33 am
You bet. These books won’t write themselves and those shows will always be there 🙂 *hugs
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January 15th, 2022 at 11:57 am
-grin- power ahead, oh man of steely determination!
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