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So, I decided to host a movie night with friends, and of course, we went for the latest disaster flick, “Moonfall.” As the film started, we were all pumped—an epic battle against the moon crashing into Earth? How could it go wrong? But halfway through, when the characters took a quick break to have a heart-to-heart chat about their feelings while 90% of humanity was just trying to outrun lunar debris, we burst into laughter. It felt less like a life-or-death scenario and more like a therapy session on a sinking spaceship.
The sheer absurdity of it all hit us—here we are, supposed to be on the edge of our seats, and instead we’re rolling on the floor laughing. I mean, who knew that during a global catastrophe, the first rule of survival would be to schedule some emotional check-ins? We all joked that if the moon was really crashing down, the characters would end up holding a group therapy session instead of offering each other escape plans. It took a disaster movie and turned it into a comedy—perfectly illustrating that when life gives you a moon-sized problem, just add a sprinkle of humor!
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I believe the trope is based on the idea that the scientists would make all kinds of sims and visuals way before telling the dumb politicians so they have them ready to go to be as convincing as possible… Scientist: The world is going to end sir! Politician: That’s nice, we need to ban the use of books in schools but we can get to that next week. Scientist: Sir, there won’t be a next week! Politician: My vacation starts next week, trust me, it will happen. Don’t be so dramatic now. Scientitst: Look at this! Politician: That’s where I live! This affects me: we must take action!
B
That’s not how politicians talk. After being shown the simulation, they’d simply remove their glasses and say, “mother of god.”
S
Sorry I wrote this one for netflix
A
You forgot to reiterate the central premise every other line
D
“So you’re telling me, ?”
N
”No, even sooner than that, because !”
N
“Oh! You mean like a [somehow the simple concept is simplified even further with a simplistic analogy]” “Yes! Exactly like a [repeats the line for viewers who weren’t quite watching the first 5 times]!”
B
“Yeah Ice. He’s a pedophile. You work in the sex crimes division.” – John Mulaney
S
Glad I am not the only one who read that in JM’s voice.
R
I call this the “Ice T effect” purely because that’s what my guy does in every single episode of SVU
T
God you have to be so chronically online to get this series of jokes but I’ve never laughed harder
A
Dumm dummmmmm…
L
If it’s for Netflix, where is the so-much-gay actor?
S
we cast him as the still in the closet president
A
too bad the series was canceled mid way through!
G
God tier reply
L
Man in suit: watches sim of moon hitting the earth \*takes of glasses* Jesus christ thats jason bourne.
T
“Get me the president! Yes, the president! Yes, now! Well tell him it’s urgent! Extremely! No, I won’t hold!”
G
Millennial politicians said that, new Gen X politicians need to have semi funny quips like “Well this is going to crash the economy”, “This moon landing better be fake too”, or “Guess I don’t have to worry about reelection.”
N
Futurama even pokes fun at this idea in one scene where the Professor is presenting a crowd with dense, complicated data proving that the world is going to end (or something equally catastrophic). Everyone completely ignores him, bored and confused. Then Amy steps in and converts the data into a flashy graph with a huge red line shooting dramatically upward. Instantly, the entire crowd panics. “Why didn’t you tell us aboit this sooner?!” “I have been telling you! Repeatedly!” , “Yeah, but not like this! With a big red line going up! That means it’s bad!”
E
I know some people in academia, and this is unironically what they need to do when giving presentations *to* military officers (source of funding). Nothing quite so dramatic, but they do stuff like reflavor cancer cells as terrorists and white blood cells as Marines or [insert applicable military branch here].
C
And this motor protein is like a quartermaster!
Y
funny thing is people who served brought military lingos into corporate speak. Boots on the ground . All hands.
B
Scientist: Mr president, an asteroid is coming right on us and will destroy earth. President: we have to destroy it first Some advisor: the asteroid is full of diamonds President: we have to to dig that bitch and get rich!
S
President: “sorry I got excited there, it turns out the Debeers family already owns this asteroid. We’ll get the next one boys”
A
That is literally the plot of a recent disaster movie that I won’t name since it would be a spoiler.
B
Calling Fox News a disaster movie is a stretch but I see where you are coming from.
P
Fox News is societal collapse triple-distilled, dissolved with bath salts, and injected into the brainstems of the elderly. I was going to say a lot more… but… well… anyway. **Remember: You must register to vote.** Midterms are coming quickly. The reason Republicans are going after election archives to purge your current registration. You wont be notified if your registration is purged. You wont be notified if your vote is discarded due to registration errors. We only have one chance at this.
S
Yeah just don’t look it up
S
The fact that this movie was written before covid was both disappointing and amazing.
C
I don’t mind spoilers but I’m curious to which movie you’re alluding to
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Dont look up. No not up in the comments. Thats the title.
P
The president: “Hah you said the asteroid is cumming on us huh ha hah!”
R
Weren’t you listening? He is going on holiday next week so he won’t be home.
S
He’s not gonna be there but his wife and kids will be…
R
I see what you are saying but I counter with “politician”
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One of his wives and some of his kids will be!
D
Basically the plot of “Don’t Look Up”
L
Or that scene in The Core when the world’s leaders can’t understand that Earth losing it’s magnetic field would be bad so Harvey Dent grabs the conveniently available fork, orange, and hairspray and torches the orange. That movie is as dumb as it is fun to watch.
G
I mean… I feel like this is kinda how a lot of people in places of power work. At least in my experience. Problems are always easy for ´em to ignore when they are just a bunch of numbers that nobody can look through without taking time and effort. But make it visual, and easy to grasp or even over-dramatic, and suddenly they get it and take action. Sometimes, information alone isn’t enough. sometimes presentation is important too.
D
Disaster movies are guerrilla marketing for PowerPoint?
S
I was gonna do a next scene where the scientist holds their phone towards the camera and says “thank God for Adobe Premier” but the funding never came in
S
Hey this how one of my favorite background noise movie goes. Its The Day After Tomorrow.
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Don’t look up is the most realistic disaster movie ever made
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>the scientists would make all kinds of sims and visuals way before telling the dumb politicians I have an idea. Can we get Bill Nye to wear Steven Miller’s face?
S
That would be an improvement on whatever Lovecraftian horror is currently wearing that man suit
S
Honestly for something like this, if the technology is good enough it could be done in real time. Waymo’s already have a screen that shows you a real time visualization of everything around you including vehicles, buildings, and even people walking around. Looks like [this](https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/waymo-dashboard.jpg) with the details improving the closer the object is to you. So if the technology was scaled up to scan bigger stuff far away, then they’d already have the realistic visual to begin with.
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You know what, this is good advice for anyone doing reports for management.
B
> That’s where I live! My favorite Sci-Fi space opera staple of costume design. “We wear earth-tones, because we live on a planet.”
M
Don’t Look Up – The Good Ending
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