This is a great movie, with an all-star cast. A bit longer than I like but at the same time I cannot think of any wasted scenes. If anyone doesn't understand my "22,740 years later" comment then you didn't watch the two scenes embedded after the credits start to roll.
The reality of our world today is, a widespread distrust of Science in many quarters. Some reject the idea that the Earth is a sphere. Many believe the Earth and the Heavens are only a few thousand years old. Some don't believe Neil Armstrong and other astronauts landed on the moon. Many believe vaccines are a hoax to control people. Many reject the idea of climate change and human negative impacts on our world.
With that reality as a backdrop, this movie was created. Part of it is a parody of the reliance on social media and the rapid way misinformation can spread. The big crisis here is two Michigan astronomers, one a professor and the other a PhD student, discover a large (5 to 9 km diameter) asteroid or comet and when they calculate the path find that it will, at a 99.72% certainty, impact the Earth in a little over six months. An extinction event.
These earnest scientists expect the US POTUS and the rest of the world to pay attention, take it seriously, and quickly start a mission to deflect the object so it will miss Earth. But they encounter just the opposite. Elections are coming up in three weeks, no need to worry the voters. And other, superficial issues.
The name of the movie derives from one group starting the slogan, to counteract misinformation, "Just look up." The skeptics counter with, "Don't look up." But when everyone does then the truth comes out.
The only sad thing about the movie is that there is too much truth to it. Viewed at home, streaming.
The reality of our world today is, a widespread distrust of Science in many quarters. Some reject the idea that the Earth is a sphere. Many believe the Earth and the Heavens are only a few thousand years old. Some don't believe Neil Armstrong and other astronauts landed on the moon. Many believe vaccines are a hoax to control people. Many reject the idea of climate change and human negative impacts on our world.
With that reality as a backdrop, this movie was created. Part of it is a parody of the reliance on social media and the rapid way misinformation can spread. The big crisis here is two Michigan astronomers, one a professor and the other a PhD student, discover a large (5 to 9 km diameter) asteroid or comet and when they calculate the path find that it will, at a 99.72% certainty, impact the Earth in a little over six months. An extinction event.
These earnest scientists expect the US POTUS and the rest of the world to pay attention, take it seriously, and quickly start a mission to deflect the object so it will miss Earth. But they encounter just the opposite. Elections are coming up in three weeks, no need to worry the voters. And other, superficial issues.
The name of the movie derives from one group starting the slogan, to counteract misinformation, "Just look up." The skeptics counter with, "Don't look up." But when everyone does then the truth comes out.
The only sad thing about the movie is that there is too much truth to it. Viewed at home, streaming.