[fortyseven]

DLU didn't know WHAT it wanted to be, so it tried to be both a comedy AND drama. Sucked at both, imo. Great cast. Lousy execution.

Can't for the life of me figure out the appeal.

I mean, sure, people are morons, but everyone everywhere had to be CARTOONISHLY stupid and incompetent in the flick to make the plot work.

That worked for Idiocracy because that was the projected future. A warning.

DLU needs that level of dumb TODAY.

And yes, I lived the last 5 years, and I'm deeply cynical of humanity... but even I thought it was all a bit too much.

[ModernMech]

It’s interesting that you call the characters cartoonishly stupid, but another poster in this thread characterized the film as “so grounded in reality that it took very little creativity to write or think about. Making 1-to-1 comparisons of things and people”. I have not seen the film yet, so I’m a little curious how opinions could differ so widely.

Can you give an example of something from the film you thought was so cartoonishly stupid?

[Apocryphon]

It’s more like the protagonists are grounded in reality, and the villains are cartoonishly stupid, so there’s some dissonance.

Personally I was okay with it but some of the bits (like the vapid news show or how the titular Don’t Look Up meme comes about) were too much for me.

[micromacrofoot]

I would argue that our reality today is even dumber and more hostile in some ways, so I suppose this is a matter of outlook. I was surprised that they didn't have a literal war break out, for example.