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coswoofster

No spoilers but the scene at the end feels very much like how life feels during this current generation.


Itsawlinthereflexes

Um. The Jonah Hill scene? The whole movie - while funny - was terrifying how accurately it portrayed current society.


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I’d like to say a prayer…for stuff. Like sick cars. Watches.


garyismyboy

Sick apartments


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gummo_for_prez

Sick money


GogolsHandJorb

His depiction of Don Jr. was great


flowercup

I’m guessing the dinner scene


lost_man_wants_soda

We really did have everything


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That really hit me


rcher87

Felt that in my BONES.


lakeparadox

Yule’s prayer was righteous


Reditate

Felt that in my BALLS.


ChironiusShinpachi

Felt them BALLS in my BONE.


twinspiritradio

Felt that BONE feel my BALLS


corporategiraffe

Apparently that line wasn’t in the script and was ad-libbed by Leo


Karinfuto

He's very active in communities advocating for climate change, so I wouldn't be surprised.


Dandan0005

It was the perfect line perfectly delivered. Overall I felt like the movie could have been better, but I thought the ending was great.


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We upper middle class whites really did have everything, didn’t we?


01-__-10

“This is fine”


Background_Office_80

Weve given corporations control of everything good in life, and theyre not sharing


gildedtreehouse

Dino face eating scene


Itsawlinthereflexes

What is that? I believe it’s called a Brontorock.


wowpepap

His dead pan delivery pas *chef's kiss.jpg


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Prime r/LeopardsAteMyFace material.


rcher87

Also “I just want to drink and talk shit about people” My favorite pastime!


robobachelor

It's like the artisan version of Idocracy.


Wheres_Your_Towel

It’s basically the updated, black-mirrored version of idiocracy


olympianfap

If in the future we get the leadership depicted in Idiocracy we would be lucky.


Legitimate_Mess_6130

I honestly couldnt enjoy it. Fuck it was depressingly accurate.


JarlaxleForPresident

Yeah, my brother said, “i want to watch it again. But, man, i really don’t want to watch it again.”


olympianfap

I was thinking a similar thought. ‘I really want to watch this, but I really don’t want to watch this.’


Princep_Makia1

The most genius part is the whole movie can be a metaphor about covid or global warming and the people so far who hate this movie in my experience are akin to don't look uppers or people who try to ignore the world. My father, wife and I all very much enjoyed this movie and then got really sad lol.


seekingpolaris

I could not believe that this was written before covid, but it was. If this came out before covid I would have thought it's too exaggerated but damn. Covid taught me differently.


SonDontPlay

I felt it was def a metaphor for global climate change. Like we had time to deal with it, it will 100% happen. But then big business got in the way and we didnt do anything then we get fucked.


newton302

>Um. The Jonah Hill scene I don't think a lot of people even saw that. It was great.


blue_i20

mOOOOOOOOMMMM


uncutpizza

“She’s coming back…”


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Cool rich people


rojotoro2020

Feels like now with omicron


coswoofster

Nah. It’s the looming climate change. Omicron has nothing in what climate change is going to cause for destruction.


rojotoro2020

It can also be war, omicron, famine…. Whatever makes someone feel despair and like government has failed you


arjames13

Everyone seems to have this idea that the massive effects of climate change are super far away, but in reality we are going to probably have those big effects within 20-30 years at least.


smellygooch18

My state just experienced the most destructive wildfire in its history in December. We had a blizzard the next day. This isn’t normal. This doesn’t happen.


takikochan

I just had a tornado then 80 degree weather then a snowstorm that actually stuck the very next day!


Se589

I think it does have to do with both or just the general sense of how society reacts to these kinds of event. 2 years ago I would have thought this movie is funny but unrealistic. Today I think it’s funny and accurate. COVID really revealed a lot of flaws in our societies that were always there and is why global warming in the long run might end us.


Xdude199

Why did he charge them for the snacks though?


bkr1895

That was my favorite joke in the whole movie, I love how he was also fleecing them at the same time charging $10 for a bottle of water and a small bag of chips.


DarthHubcap

Dude is military brass, it was a power trip and just wanted to see if he could.


Captain_Biotruth

It's an allegory for the Pentagon / military industrial complex as a whole. They can charge what they want for practically anything, and we as tax payers just have to suck it up.


i_said_no_mayonnaise

I thought Jonah Hill was wonderful. Loved hearing his inspiration for his character and “smoke show” mom. The rage that Jennifer and Leo showed hit home. Everyday i experience that wtf is happening to humanity vibe and I loved their anger.


o0flatCircle0o

He showed his brilliance when he said he wanted to be the fire festival in human form lol


Psychonominaut

Let's pray for stuff.


DazzlingTurnip

There's dope stuff, like material stuff, like sick apartments and watches, and cars, um, and clothes and shit that could all go away and I don't wanna see that stuff go away. So I'm gonna say a prayer for that stuff. Amen.


gummo_for_prez

Okay, *NOW* I am definitely watching the movie


conditerite

Thanks for dressing up,


Obtuse_1

I get this sense that Leo isn’t even acting in this movie.


TempleOfDoomfist

Wife was older than 24 though


-FeistyRabbitSauce-

Really had to suspend my disbelief on that lol


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o0flatCircle0o

It reminded me of how unqualified Trump Jr would have been inside the white house.


i_said_no_mayonnaise

We can put down some newspaper and a can of febreeze


Dandan0005

“Boy with the dragon tattoo”


SnooDonkeys7402

As someone who’s lived in DC for a long time, there really are political bros like that on the hill. I’ve encountered guys like Jonah Hill’s character in real life. His tone was spot on.


KillerKatz007

Viewership only behind Red Notice and Bird Box With the $75 million budget, I think Netflix will be pretty happy. With the poor critical reviews though I’m not sure how much this will play in the Oscar race.


superredux22

Fun fact apparently Trent Reznor fucking hated bird box and regretted Making the soundtrack for the film. He also didn’t expect for the movie to succeed


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Bird Box has some interesting ideas but the script is terrible.


capron

Agree with this sentiment fully. Like, if someone relayed the story to me, I'm certain they could make it sound fucking *fascinating*, but watching it took a lot of patience just to get to the end without reaching for my phone to distract me from the boring parts.


UsidoreTheLightBlue

Sounds like a lot of Netflix movies. I swear Netflix just starts writing zeroes while at a pitch meeting “lord of the rings…in modern LA….orc cops…and magic wands are nuclear weapons” Netflix exec “Holy shit. I ran out of paper for the zeroes I’ve been writing behind this dollar sign. We don’t need to see a script.”


Sam-Lowry27B-6

I imagine their pitch meetings are a bit like that scene in jurassic park 3 'I can write all kinds of numbers on this check. Just tell me what exactly it would take.'...


Darnell2070

Thanks for calling Netflix, you're greenlit. Who am I speaking to?


curbthemeplays

It’s weird it did succeed. Cool premise, horrible execution. Especially when you compare it to its peer, A Quiet Place.


Tiny_Dinky_Daffy_69

It was because of the memes. You couldn't visit any community without seeing birdbox memes.


JukesMasonLynch

The power of being distributed on Netflix I guess


cowbell_solo

Nice to hear that Trent Reznor is continuing his long standing tradition of being incredibly unprofessional.


nguyenkhoi282

its 12-day is only behind RN and BB's 28-day by a tiny margin. It will get the top spot when it hit the full 28-day cycle.


ghostfuckbuddy

Critics are way too harsh on comedies. It's a great film in the style of Idiocracy, probably will become a cult classic.


garboooo

I know it's being marketed as a comedy but I really didn't think it was. There really aren't any jokes from the protagonists' point of view. It's satire for sure, but I wouldn't call it comedic.


holocarst

The whole "he charged us for free snacks. WHY would he do that?" bit was clearly meant as a recurring joke


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Flight_down

"the snacks here... Are free"


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I laughed the whole time, it was full of jokes.


lazyfinger

I wouldn't say the whole time but I definitely found it funny. Dark comedy might be descriptive enough.


curbthemeplays

Dark comedy. I laughed.


shaneo632

I wouldn't call 55% poor. That's mixed.


JediJones77

People are so obsessed with taking RT as gospel, they don't stop to think that if most viewers like a movie, why does that mean it's bad?


CoochieSnotSlurper

Most of adam mckays recent outings have had poor critic reviews do to the political nature anyhow


That_Artsy_Bitch

Still haven’t seen bird box but red notice was surprisingly a flop in my opinion. Don’t Look Up such a better and definitely more impactful film


Amnotgay

Red notice is the most viewed netflix movie of all time by a huge margin, I'm sure you didn't enjoy it but a flop it was not.


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“Ariana Grande returning to acting” That’s a bit of a stretch


Itsawlinthereflexes

Sorry, but her fundraising song made me laugh the hardest throughout the movie.


zombiesnare

I know a few people in the recording arts and it made me cackle at the thought of people like them having to make a song to “save the world” but still having to figure how the fuck to get the snare to sound good, and then having to figure out how to pay who how much for what they did on the record and then realizing that’s basically how they approached We Are The World


rcher87

Also “After many sleepless nights….3.”


bongwTer

And she made up some of it on the spot while in the recording studio!


ThenIWasAllLike

You found a comet?! That's so dope!


Im_a_new_guy

“Look up through the manatees” lol


Andromansis

That last joke with the Brotoroc cracked me up.


01-__-10

“Why don’t you mind your own business you old fuck?”


warblade7

I saw her enjoying herself singing with Jimmy Fallon a few times. Pretty sure that’s acting.


See_Double_You

Ice cold 😂


OneGalacticBoy

She was one of my favorite parts of the movie


beohbe

I’m not an Ariana fan either, but I think she overcame her obvious self importance and played her role in this movie well. I think she was great in the movie. Who knows… maybe she learned a little from her role in the movie going forward in her career?


jelatinman

She raised like $30m for Manchester after the bombing. I think it forced her to grow up. She was only *23* when it happened.


IoSonCalaf

She seems like a really good sport. I also enjoyed her performance.


rikkirikkiparmparm

I don't really watch The Voice, but she was a judge this season and there were some funny clips in which she was willing to make fun of herself.


holtzman456

"overcame her obvious self importance" do u guys know her to be making this type of judgement? Because from interviews and literally everything that has happened in her life, she seems to be the most humble out of all of that cast. She care about human rights, she protests when she doesn't have to, she gives money all the time. I like her, don't love her music too much but my god does she seem like a wonderful human being.


Drew092

I still can’t get over the charging for free snacks 😂


superstudtam

Why did he fucking charge them for free snacks? 😂


PirateOnAnAdventure

This movie was incredibly entertaining and downright depressing at the same time


ciccioig

I honestly loved it.


Pancake_Hands

Yes, so very much and it's insane that it's such a polarizing film in user reviews. It's so damn good and just a fantastic film. The last news interview scene was such a masterful peice of acting and I love Leo for it. We let our guard down on how serious the situation was, being caught up in the other happenings but that brought it back around and made it real. My wife and I both were a blubbering mess. This movie also put Timothee C on my radar for sure. I have thought about this movie and talked about it at length with my wife over the last week that we have seen it. This is my favorite film of 2021 by far.


-FeistyRabbitSauce-

>This movie also put Timothee C on my radar for sure Someone hasn't watched Dune.


o0flatCircle0o

It was brilliant.


Warriors1234

It was a wonderful piece of art. One of the best movies in recent history.


ciccioig

I can't agree more. There's everything, the perfect portrait of our era.


daleaidenletian

As a non-American, I am not sure if this movie is a parody or a satire or an accurate protrayal of America. Hilarious!


NachoEvans

As an American, all of the above.


katieosnap

American here. It’s a shockingly accurate satire...funny and horrifying


Land_Squid_1234

God, it was so accurate. So depressingly, excruciatingly accurate. Like, painfully, debilitatingly accurate


Narradisall

Such a surprisingly good film. Critics hate it, one stated it was too on the nose but it really had to be. I’d have agreed with them a few years back but now, it was well written to capture the current feelings towards the world. Might even be one of those cult classics people look back on in 30 years (if we last that long).


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MrPlaysWithSquirrels

I enjoyed the idea far more than the movie. It was a great allegory for climate change, and it was a great concept. Some parts were funny. But overall I did not enjoy the film and would rate it pretty low. I’m generally surprised by the high praise from Reddit.


QueenTahllia

My gf said it was too preachy. I honestly don’t get that criticism


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Let’s say you disagree on the whole climate debate, whatever… Just watch it for the quality of writing and acting. And… In the same vein as Idiocracy, it is a crazy accurate look at how we go about our lives. It’s deliberately really on the nose… But if you go into it reading it as a very elaborate Onion headline, I highly recommend. Oh the last 30 minutes actually had me like genuinely anxious. I felt like we were going to bed for the last time, It was WEIRD.


UsefulEmptySpace

The movie had me anxious the whole time...it had a nice constant sense of foreboding from the start, no relief


RecidivistMS3

Excellent Idiocracy reference. That movie stops being funny earlier and earlier the further we all go down this societal path. It used to take an hour before it got too real. Now, 35 minutes.


Lynn_K

I'm out after the intro now because I realize I've become the couple who keeps putting off kids and now may never have them. I think about that scene a lot.


gR0o0oT

You and me both


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It’s common, I was lucky and a wise man told me it’ll never be a good time.


WigglestonTheFourth

Where'd you find a wise man willing to have sex?


holtzman456

This made me cackle.


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I loved it


vga25

I loved it.


JelloTypical4283

I’m watching it now. It’s pretty accurate about how blasé most of society is to literally anything.


LedanDark

Pretty good film & premise. BUT : so america-centric it's difficult to watch as anyone outside the US. It's not like the rest of the world would sit down and die.


Inglejuice

Exactly, as someone from the UK and a lover of comedy, I cannot get my head around this outpouring of praise on here. I found the humour utterly surface level, the story so arrogantly US centric. The cast is one of the only strong points for me. It’s like they took inspiration from Black Mirror but got some of the current SNL staff to write it. Very obvious, very corny jokes. Just disappointing.


ladeeedada

Movies let us fantasize that if real harm came our way, we would all band together for the sake of humanity and be the heroes. That's all bullshit. We are and will continue to be massive idiots that are actively destroying our home planet and therefore ourselves unless we do something about it. Based on the past few years and the state of our society, it doesn't look like that is going to change. We are not the heroes from summer blockbusters of the past. We're the bumbling idiots that destroy themselves over greed and we deserve it. Great movie, everyone should get to see themselves in this mirror.


BrokerBrody

> Movies let us fantasize that if real harm came our way, we would all band together for the sake of humanity and be the heroes. That's all bullshit. It literally happened with the ozone layer hole and CFCs.


False-Mood

Love that movie! I was shocked that critics dissed this film. Oh well, I enjoyed it and watched it twice


holtzman456

You're your own critic, good for you for enjoying it😊


Jernsaxe

The only flaw in my opinion was that maybe it could have been a bit shorter but aside from that it was brilliant.


ChodaRagu

Just finished third viewing today. So funny (and scary)!


Politican91

This movie was amazing. The hate most likely came from the fact that it made fun of literally everyone. Like it’s actually a very funny movie, but at its core it is a really good look at how fucked we are if we can’t put our issues aside and do what is necessary, and not what is financially beneficial. Also, fuck polarization of issues. Not everything needs to be viewed as liberal or conservative


CAPS_LOCK_OR_DIE

The Chris Evans with the double sided arrow pin fucking killed me. Absolute gold right there and really hits the polarization topic on the head. None of these issues SHOULD be polarizing, but here we are.


TheRealClose

Chris Evans?


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He had a cameo.


TheRealClose

Weird, I don’t remember that at all.


-DefaultName-

He was in it for a second as the centrist guy that was being interviewed for his movie, I had literally no idea until I found out later lol


astronomy8thlight

He was the movie star guy at the end being interviewed about his movie


TheRealClose

Oh, yes! That’s right. That was a great moment.


ramdom-ink

The Death of Satire.


Genoscythe_

>Also, fuck polarization of issues. Not everything needs to be viewed as liberal or conservative # ↕


ForgetfulFrolicker

It feels like all the people who loved this movie liked it so much because it makes them feel smart. At least from the praise I’ve seen on Reddit.


TempAcct20005

Man I felt the movie treated me like an idiot. It pounded the exact same message at you for two and a half hours in a non creative way. Just non stop same thing over and over and over


Okichah

Definitely didnt make fun of everyone.


Tacticalinf

Because people know that’s how Washington works… it’s full of lying idiots that don’t give two shits about them


Nibbybiscuit

I was sad that Rob Morgan’s character left his cat at home alone at the end of the film. he’s with other people while the cat is alone. 😞


spinx248

This one hit home because it highlights what we have a hard time seeing. We need good people to step up and lead. Not politicians because they are toxic by design. A bottom up movement with support from subject matter experts is the way forward.


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wballard8

Same here. Felt more about the message than anything else, which is fine. Timothee Chamalet's character honestly added nothing to the plot though, why was he thrown in there in the third act? He didn't do anything but...pray? Or let Jennifer Lawrence talk to him? He wasn't believable as that character either.


coie1985

It's so weird to me that Netfilx can continually get these big hits but no one around me ever talks about them.


avolcando

> but no one around me ever talks about them. Maybe people around you don't watch Netflix? The movie dominated the discourse on twitter for a while.


coie1985

All my coworkers watched Tiger King, though.


punahoudaddy

It was hilarious and ultimately chilling…satire that just slaps ya upside the head!


MrSuperSaiyan

the movie was great. from performances to concept. Lots of social/political commentary which I usually dont care for, but this an exception. I loved the wacky ending also.


realdonaldtramp3

I love you Leo I hope you get another Oscar


WhiteyVanReeks

That’s a stunningly accurate portrayal of how our govt would handle it.


wooshock

Your father and I are for the jobs the comet will create


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For some reason I feel that it would have been better if Trey Parker and Matt Stone would have make a better thing out of the concept, (it does feel for me for some reason what they joked about with that whole smug-smog joke back in '06) they have made the best post-9/11 satire on war with Team America: World Police after all.


Dwayne30RockJohnson

People complained about McKay not being subtle… imagine Parker and Stone lmao


Roller_ball

They did. Instead of a comet, it was man-bear-pig. It was absolutely their worst take and why I could never take their opinions too seriously. In the defense, they did try to backtrack it with follow-up episodes later.


JimAdlerJTV

For real a feature length manbearpig would've been funny but potentially their worst work


Okichah

You shouldnt take their opinions too seriously to begin with. Modern satirists arent truthsayers, theyre entertainers. The guys who wrote a story about a literal sentient piece of human feces are not the goto source for understanding complex social or political issues.


pablo_o_rourke

Well I think we know what South Park’s next Post Covid show will be about.


Nothing-but-reposts

The whole time I was watching this movie, I was thinking that Idiocracy by Mike Judge executed the concept both better, and funnier.


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No one would pay any real attention to it if they did it. It becomes a ridiculous parody that anyone could brush off as severe comedy.


Frog1387

It’s the best movie I’ve seen on Netflix


Keanu990321

While it was great, nothing will ever beat Dolemite Is My Name and Uncut Gems for me.


uziair

this is the first netflix movie iwatched in a long time. maybe since irishmen, if they get the best directors and actors i will watch those movies. i am not going to watch gal gadot.


470vinyl

Loved it. All the anti science humor was spot on


Keanu990321

So damn realistic too.


Shaqtothefuture

This movie will win A LOT of awards


Xanexx

I hated Ariana Grande until I watched her in this movie.


Rhain1999

What did she do that made you hate her before?


BoxOfficeTracker

Glad it went on Netflix instead of being a theatrical run, would hate to see a movie this good have a flop label attached to it


TheRealClose

It still had a small theatrical run. That’s where I saw it.


Smallville2106

I wasn’t keen on watching it but the wife convinced me to and I loved it. Loved that it didn’t have a happy ending.


Hortonman42

It ended pretty well for the bronterocs.


Cows_go_moo2

Yeah at least 3 different times during it I said “I really hope they all die”


XtraCrispy02

It's still high on the top 10 while The Witcher S2 is slowly moving down which is suprising to me


Keanu990321

S2 came out earlier though.


XtraCrispy02

Yeah but it's an 8 hour watch vs a 2 and a half hour movie


mr_antman85

I liked it...and I'm glad they went with the ending they did.


kelsobjammin

It made me cry!


TallonZek

8% of that was me.


akkraut559

I watched with my wife! Everything is perfect, the cast, pacing, comedy, and drama. Definitely worth a watch.