{"id":22088,"date":"2022-02-15T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T17:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=22088"},"modified":"2022-02-04T09:53:18","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T17:53:18","slug":"nics-flicks-dont-look-up-decent-but-with-faults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2022\/02\/15\/nics-flicks-dont-look-up-decent-but-with-faults\/","title":{"rendered":"Nic’s Flicks<\/em>: Don\u2019t Look Up<\/em> decent but with faults"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don\u2019t Look Up<\/i> (2021)
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One of the most memorable new movies that I\u2019ve seen recently is Adam McKay\u2019s new political satire Don\u2019t Look Up<\/i>. This well-cast and mean-spirited smash has broke streaming records across the globe and is 2022\u2019s most talked-about film so far.<\/p>\n

The main attribute that really makes this movie work is its cast. Both Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence deliver pitch-perfect performances that play to their strengths perfectly. Meryl Streep is very funny as Janie Orlean, the first female American president, and Jonah Hill matches Streep\u2019s performance with one equally as humorous as the president\u2019s son and chief of staff Jason Orlean. Every one of the remaining cast performances were great too, but these four performances are the standouts.<\/p>\n

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Nic’s Flicks<\/em> is a column about movies (photo by Nicolas Ihmels\/Nexus<\/em>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

McKay\u2019s direction is also a big highlight of the movie. As he has shown with 2015\u2019s The Big Short<\/i>, he has no problem tackling dark scenarios\u2014in this case, a planet-destroying comet approaching Earth and the astronomers trying to warn people about it\u2014and actually turning them into funny movies that people connect to.<\/p>\n

I also must say that Nicholas Britell\u2019s score is one of the best comedy scores I\u2019ve heard in a long time, and Linus Sandgren\u2019s cinematography makes the movie look like a work of art.<\/p>\n

The thing I truly disliked about Don\u2019t Look Up<\/i> is that there are times when the film is trying to say something important but it\u2019s undercut by misused humour.<\/p>\n

While some of the jokes are funny, the absurdity of the situations take away from the often-serious intentions behind the jokes and certainly detracts from the movie\u2019s larger points.<\/p>\n

Another thing that I found off-putting about the movie is, although it\u2019s well-intentioned, its tone can feel a little bit preachy and mean-spirited, especially for a comedy.<\/p>\n

Regardless of its off-putting tone, Don\u2019t Look Up<\/i> at least presents its audience with an intriguing satire that pokes fun at our leaders\u2019 current politics-over-science approach while delivering a decent movie that viewers, at the very least, will talk about long after they leave the comfort of their couches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don\u2019t Look Up (2021) 3\/4 One of the most memorable new movies that I\u2019ve seen recently is Adam McKay\u2019s new political satire Don\u2019t Look Up. This well-cast and mean-spirited smash has broke streaming records across the globe and is 2022\u2019s most talked-about film so far. The main attribute that really makes this movie work is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-february-9-2022"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22089,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22088\/revisions\/22089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}