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        That’s actually kind of true.

        The original script was written pre-Covid. Adam McCay wound up having to make changes after the reality of society’s response to the pandemic was even more outrageous than his initial script.

        His first attempt at outrageous parody turned out to be an underestimate…

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          The sad thing was that the movie was clearly an allegory to climate change, and the COVID happened a s we fucked that up almost exactly the same way, so now it’s really confusing which emergency response is being satirized.

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      We could make a whole community comparing each and every news story or current event to that movie. Its just so true.

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      Keep swimming, and assess.

      Also thought of the South Park manbearpig - “Okay, fine, there are sharks in the water. What can we do about it now, Susan?”

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      Or, you know, Jaws, since that theme is already all over that movie. Did nobody actually watch it?

      New idea! Terminator reboot, but this time it’s about a killer robot from the future!

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      Honestly I didn’t like that movie. Idk if it was the acting, or the script, or what. But it just felt awkward and hamfisted. Like I get the point but it could have added something to the conversation other than “people in power are stupid”. Idk

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        That’s totally fair. I enjoyed it but found it frustrating at times for how much the ridiculous aspects were still pretty clearly paralleled by real world events.

        I mentioned this in another comment but the script was originally written before the pandemic. It was meant to be an outrageous parody of humanity’s response to a crisis, as a metaphor for climate change.

        Then Covid happened and the reality of the response was even more ridiculous than McCay’s script. So he had to make it even more crazy. How do you parody something that’s already a parody of itself?

        McCay described the movie as a “primal scream” about his frustration with inaction on climate change. I think that’s an apt description, it’s not subtle and doesn’t really have much to add to the conversation other than venting pent up frustration. But that’s not a necessarily a bad thing, sometimes you need to vent.