How Adam McKay ended 'Don't Look Up' with a bang
Adam McKay knows full well how the big Hollywood movie about the impending global cataclysm is typically supposed to go. Bruce Willis blows up the asteroid. The Avengers beat back the alien invasion. Superman flies around the world fast enough to turn back time. Everyone leaves the theater cheering, reassured that life will go on. That is exactly what McKay didn't want to do with his ...
by Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times
Dec 27, 2021
4 minutes
Adam McKay knows full well how the big Hollywood movie about the impending global cataclysm is typically supposed to go.
Bruce Willis blows up the asteroid. The Avengers beat back the alien invasion. Superman flies around the world fast enough to turn back time. Everyone leaves the theater cheering, reassured that life will go on.
That is exactly what McKay didn't want to do with his star-studded film "Don't Look Up," which arrived on Netflix last week.
A warning about the climate crisis wrapped in the guise of a movie about an impending comet impact, "Don't Look Up" ends with the worst case scenario coming to fruition: World leaders don't
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