Don't Look Up (directed by Adam McKay) - The Science/Art Conundrum

Show Me The Meaning! – A Wisecrack Movie Podcast

Wisecrack

Comedy, Education, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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In this chat, we get into film as a medium needing to be on the popular side of ideology, this film failing as a satire and a metapor for climate change, the over-rationality of "believe the science!" motto, Amerocentric films - and more! Enjoy! Thanks Skillshare for sponsoring this episode! Explore your creativity at http://skillshare.com/SMTM and get a free trial of Skillshare Premium Membership. Have thoughts? Let us know - we may play it on air! Leave us a voicemail: +1 (213) 534-8807 Leave us an email: [email protected] We got bonus content! Become a patron today to check out that episode and more bonus content! https://wscrk.com/32Q7huu Hearing the hosts talk about comments from 'the chat'? Join the livestream discussion on our YouTube channel every Tuesday at 6pm PST! https://wscrk.com/3xBI3vu Follow us on Twitter for more deep dives on discussions from the show! @SMTM_pod @austin_hayden (Austin) @michaeloburns (Michael) @helenfloersh (Helen) SUBSCRIBE TO SHOW ME THE MEANING!: Apple Podcasts ► https://wscrk.com/3jCDFbJ Amazon Music ► https://wscrk.com/3l12tv1 Spotify ► https://wscrk.com/3AXla8h Stitcher ► https://wscrk.com/39NI3zk YouTube ► https://wscrk.com/3meO1yF Other Wisecrack Podcasts! Culture Binge: https://wscrk.com/culturebinge Respect Our Authoritah!: https://wscrk.com/respect The Squanch: https://wscrk.com/squanch Huge thanks to RØDE Microphones for decking out our studio! © 2021 Wisecrack / Omnia Media / Enthusiast Gaming Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yo, what's going down, everybody? Welcome to Show Me the Meaning Wisecrack's movie podcast.
0:07.0	Show me the meaning!
0:11.0	There it is, I'm Austin Hayden, I'm joined by the Show Me the Meaning crew, we've got Helen.
0:15.0	What up, what up?
0:16.0	And we've got Michael.
0:18.0	Hello, I'm happy to be here.
0:19.0	That is good, I'm glad that you're happy to be here.
0:21.0	I'm happy to be here, even though I'm not sure that this film is something that we're all happy to have to discuss,
0:26.0	because I know that it's been created.
0:28.0	Oh, wait, those faces, I don't know, I'm very curious.
0:30.0	Both of those were like cringy faces.
0:32.0	We're going to be talking about the newly released Don't Look Up, directed by Adam McKay, starring everybody.
0:38.0	That's Leo, J-Law, Kate Blanchett, Medias in it, Timothy Shalamet in it, Meryl Streep is in it.
0:44.0	By the way, that was Tyler Perry for those of you who don't get the joke.
0:47.0	Jonah Hill is in it, Rob Morgan, Mark Rylands, etc, etc, etc, etc.
0:53.0	As always, we're going to go around and do first impressions and things like that before we start unpacking,
0:57.0	but before we do, I do want to just give a couple of house cleaning remarks.
1:01.0	One, you can follow us on Twitter, SMTM underscore POD, that's SMTM underscore POD.
1:08.0	You can also head over to Patreon, it's patreon.com slash wisecrack, and you can get access to some bonus episodes.
1:14.0	And we've talked about the philosophy of acting, or what makes a good acting performance.
1:18.0	We've talked about good debut features, we've talked about a little behind the scenes, extra stuff on apocalypse now.
1:23.0	A bunch of other things, so go to patreon.com slash wisecrack, as well as I think getting access to all kinds of other goodies.
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