Armageddon Part 2

Here's a quick movie tip, for a new movie that I came across on Netflix.

The SF "Don't Look Up!"

You can't really tell much about it without spoiling. Only so much, that this is actually more of a socially critical - and specifically focused on the US - film than an SF. Although there are of course clear SF elements in it.

So: a comet is approaching the earth. A really big one. But after all, there are more important things, right? Votes for example, or which dumb ass rapper has just broken up with another dumb ass rapper girl. And of course the big business of the corporations. The dinosaurs probably thought similar 65 million years ago.

Well worth watching this film with a real star cast, which at first seems like a satire and maybe is meant to be. But the laughter soon goes away, because everything seems far too realistic and plausible to be funny. The indictment of our current way of life. And a vague touch of "Dr. Strangelove ..." can also be felt .

If you can, you'd better watch the film in the original English language - there is still a lot of message packed into it. Like the voice of the superrich industrialist (clearly a hommage to Peter Sellers as Dr Strangelove - with a pinch of Elon Musk?), or the TV anchors.

In any case, I liked it a lot and also reflected my belief in the SF film genre - so it still exists, the SF with expressiveness. Sometimes I feared that it had died in the 70s.

With the words of a famous film critic: I give it 4 and a half M&Ms out of 5

Have a nice rest of Christmas and a happy new year!

Yours