{"id":1184211,"date":"2022-01-03T16:34:29","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T21:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1184211"},"modified":"2022-01-03T16:34:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T21:34:38","slug":"dont-look-up-review-a-trumpian-attack-on-americas-corrupt-establishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dont-look-up-review-a-trumpian-attack-on-americas-corrupt-establishment\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Don&#039;t Look Up&#039; Review: A Trumpian Attack on America&#039;s Corrupt Establishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdont-look-up-review-a-trumpian-attack-on-americas-corrupt-establishment%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1184211&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/dontlookup2-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Co-writer, director Adam McKay\u2019s <em>Don\u2019t Look Up<\/em>&nbsp;will accidentally please establishment-hating Trump fans. Of course, that might sound counter-intuitive considering all the <em>This-is-about-Global-Warming! <\/em>hype<em>&nbsp;<\/em>around it. The truth, though, is that (except for a few minutes), <em>Don\u2019t Look Up<\/em> is such a brutal attack on the media, D.C., &nbsp;Big Tech, the FBI, and the ethically-compromised scientific community, Trump himself could have produced it.<\/p>\n<p>The plot is pretty straightforward. Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) is a Midwestern Ph.D. candidate observing the skies who discovers an unknown comet. At first, she\u2019s excited. This is an amazing find, and the comet will be named after her. But during the big celebration that follows, her professor, Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio), does the math and discovers the Dibiasky Comet will destroy the planet in about six months.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>From here, Kate and Randall, two very smart but down-to-earth people from the rustbelt, attempt to sound the alarm. They start with the White House, then the media, then social media, then <em>raising awareness t<\/em>hrough celebrities, then, then, then\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that there\u2019s enough time to save the earth. The bad news is that 1) no one wants to acknowledge this reality, and 2) our media\/political\/Big Tech\/celebrity\/science establishment are so compromised and self-involved, nothing happens.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Watch below:&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Based on the publicity, I expected 138 minutes of straight-up conservative bashing. I had planned to hate-watch 20 minutes, shut it off, and then cleanse the palate by watching oil workers save the planet in <em>Armageddon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Don\u2019t Look Up<\/em> works (for the most part) because it is actually has nothing to do with Global Warming (which is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/environment\/2019\/09\/20\/nolte-climate-experts-are-0-41-with-their-doomsday-predictions\/\">a hoax<\/a>). The movie\u2019s <em>really about<\/em>&nbsp;how our American establishment lies and lies and lies\u2026 How the media use shiny objects to distract us\u2026 How the scientific community sells us out for empty media fame and corporate grants\u2026 How the FBI is politically compromised\u2026 How Big Tech is run by nerd-sociopaths with too much power\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, you can watch <em>Don\u2019t Look Up<\/em> and see it as a metaphor for the exact opposite of the hokum McKay is selling. Every intelligent person knows the establishment is using Global Warming (which is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/environment\/2019\/09\/20\/nolte-climate-experts-are-0-41-with-their-doomsday-predictions\/\">a hoax<\/a>) as a shiny object to scare us into giving them more power over our lives.&nbsp;<em>Don\u2019t Look Up<\/em> could just as easily be called <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/environment\/2019\/09\/20\/nolte-climate-experts-are-0-41-with-their-doomsday-predictions\/\">Don\u2019t Look at Science\u2019s Dismal Environmental Track Record<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more, it\u2019s just as easy to see the movie as a metaphor for how the establishment has sought to cover up vote fraud, ignore the horror stories behind illegal immigration, and lie to us about countless things that matter: Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop, Benghazi, the lab leak theory, the Russia Collusion Hoax, the failure of COVID lockdowns, the failure of green energy\u2026 You can see this $75 million Netflix offering as a metaphor for a corrupt scientific community that tells us it\u2019s unsafe to attend church but perfectly safe to join left-wing protests and flood the country with unvaccinated illegal aliens.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>In my eyes, Meryl Streep\u2019s President Orlean is more Obama than Trump. The president\u2019s idiotic, drug-addled son (Jonah Hill) is pure Hunter Biden. Cate Blanchett\u2019s craven morning show co-host is a damning impersonation of Mika Brzezinski. Ariana Grande\u2019s Riley Bina \u2014 a mega-star who uses popular causes to make everything about Riley Bina \u2014 is every left-wing asshole in Hollywood (including Adam McKay), and Mark Rylance\u2019s fey tech billionaire \u2014 a monster who hides his anti-human authoritarianism behind do-gooderism \u2014 is, well, name a tech billionaire.<\/p>\n<p>For about ten minutes, <em>Don\u2019t Look Up<\/em> loses its universal appeal to go directly at Trump, and this is the movie\u2019s weakest part, the part where biting satire turns to smug propaganda. Additionally, <em>Don\u2019t Look Up<\/em> is a half-hour too long and never all that funny. It\u2019s also not terribly deep \u2014 nothing close to a <em>Network<\/em> (1976) or <em>Dr. Strangelove<\/em> (1964). You\u2019re basically watching a series of skits.<\/p>\n<p>With a couple of dumb, over-indulgent post-credit scenes, McKay also steps all over what would have been a perfect ending.&nbsp;<em>We really did have it all. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Overall, though, this movie is filled with a healthy contempt and skepticism towards the powerful and is an embrace of traditional values about family and Christian faith, whose heroes hail from Flyover Country.<\/p>\n<p><em>Don\u2019t Look Up<\/em> doesn\u2019t touch the greatness of McKay\u2019s <em>Big Short<\/em> (2015), but it\u2019s a major improvement over his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2019\/01\/02\/vice-review-a-really-bad-house-of-cards-episode\/\">insufferably smug<\/a> <em>Vice<\/em> (2018) and worth a look.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Follow John Nolte on Twitter <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NolteNC\"><strong><em>@NolteNC<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong>.&nbsp;<em>Follow his Facebook Page <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JohnNolteNC\/?skip_nax_wizard=true\"><strong><em>here<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Co-writer, director Adam McKay\u2019s Don\u2019t Look Up\u00a0will accidentally please establishment-hating Trump fans. Of course, that might sound counter-intuitive considering all the This-is-about-Global-Warming! hype\u00a0around it. The truth, though, is that (except &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1184211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1184211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1184211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1184211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}