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Post by pickle20 on Jan 6, 2022 10:24:09 GMT -5
It's on Netflix.
Great cast, uneven film with a very unsubtle message. I can see why it has divided so many people.
It's too long and not as funny as it should be but I felt it got better as it went along.
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Post by up2 on Jan 6, 2022 10:41:09 GMT -5
It's on Netflix. Great cast, uneven film with a very unsubtle message. I can see why it has divided so many people. It's too long and not as funny as it should be but I felt it got better as it went along. Given the producer, I should have expected those winks and nods with the subtleness of a hammer. I thought it pandered a bit too much to the lowest common denominator of awareness, with the characters overly exaggerated as though the viewing public might actually miss out on the satire. The plotline had a lot of potential, but I thought it was overly stylized for something that was done on film, not the stage.
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Post by alienrace on Jan 6, 2022 14:54:55 GMT -5
It was ok, I laughed. My wife thought it was stupid as hell.
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Post by soulflower on Jan 8, 2022 10:01:56 GMT -5
It was okay. Not something I’m interested in watching more than once.
I think it could’ve been better if it were a TV series. The characters were kind of underdeveloped and some of the jokes seemed too forced.
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Post by alienrace on Jan 10, 2022 14:16:06 GMT -5
The characters were kind of underdeveloped and some of the jokes seemed too forced. It almost seemed like it wanted to be "Mars Attacks" but without any of the retro cool factor.
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Post by zenwalk on Feb 7, 2022 1:40:52 GMT -5
It's on Netflix. Great cast, uneven film with a very unsubtle message. I can see why it has divided so many people. It's too long and not as funny as it should be but I felt it got better as it went along. Given the producer, I should have expected those winks and nods with the subtleness of a hammer. I thought it pandered a bit too much to the lowest common denominator of awareness, with the characters overly exaggerated as though the viewing public might actually miss out on the satire. The plotline had a lot of potential, but I thought it was overly stylized for something that was done on film, not the stage. Neil Degrasse Tyson said it felt eerily familiar to him. The things portrayed that were over the top weren't that over the top in his experience. Tyson brought up the fact they had to have a march for science in real life. He says dumbfoundedly "science needs a march?" But that seems to be the pass we've arrived at. Tyson does a good job explaining why this show be a red blinking warning light
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