Don’t Look Up’s Apocalyptic Trailer: Funny, Yet Depressingly Accurate

Even dwelling in an age of local weather denialism, pandemic denialism, and so on and so forth, you’d assume a trailer for a comedy about humanity collectively burying its heads within the floor whereas an enormous comet involves wipe out life on Earth wouldn’t fairly hit so disconcertingly arduous because it does. And but, right here we’re.

Netflix has launched the most recent trailer for Adam McKay’s new sci-fi film with a comedy twist, Don’t Look Up. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence as Dr. Randall Mindy and Kate Dibiasky respectively, an astronomy professor and grad pupil duo who make the miraculous, horrifying discovery of an enormous comet orbiting with within the photo voltaic system… that has a direct, assured collision path with the Earth. So far, so sci-fi catastrophe, however the place the comedy twist is available in is that when Randall and Kate attempt to get a warning out to the U.S. authorities that humanity is on the verge of being worn out… they discover out that they don’t care.

In reality, no one appears to care, as Randall and Kate get more and more determined of their makes an attempt to get the phrase out to the world that with out fast motion, a comet the dimensions of Mount Everest is about to kill everybody. As the tip occasions draw close to and getting that message out turns into tantamount to working a press tour with z-list celebrities, the six months the duo have to save lots of the world begin working out relatively shortly, even when their warnings will be proved true by the world simply craning its collective necks up and seeing doom within the sky.

Which sure, it is a reasonably goofy trailer. Madame President Meryl Streep? Yes please! But it additionally feels distressingly correct to the misinformation period during which we reside in a method that cuts simply shut sufficient to the bone that you simply’re not fairly positive whether or not you have to be laughing alongside or crying right into a stiff drink as a substitute. Good job it hits Netflix on Christmas Eve then (December 10 in choose theaters), as a result of nothing says the vacation season like an existential disaster over your religion in humanity, proper?

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