CRAPS: Don't Look Down

    Surprise! I'm expanding the brand! I love to watch movies, and I love to review them afterwards, so I decided to incorporate that into my blog. I'm only going to review movies that are new to me (no rewatches), and all my reviews will be spoiler-ful. So don't read a movie review if you're not okay with that movie being spoiled.

SPOILERS AHEAD!

   I decided to watch a fairly new movie called Don't Look Up. It stars several big names, including Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Tyler Perry, and Jonah Hill. It's about two astronomers (DiCaprio and Lawrence) who find out that a comet is coming for Earth that will surely destroy all life. The two go on a media tour trying to warn the world, but no one takes them seriously; not even the President of the United States (Streep). 

    The whole thing eventually gets blown way up, with the population being torn apart, into one side believing the end is coming and one refusing to believe it. When the comet becomes visible in the atmosphere, DiCaprio and Lawrence's characters beg everyone to just look up - to see the comet flying through the sky. The other side is only fueled by President Orlean's shenanigans. She gets her followers (which is a ton of people - she's a very popular president) to cause discord and refuse to look up, causing the "don't look up" movement (hence the title).

   Of course, we should have listened. The comet comes directly at Earth, and people start to panic, knowing their death is imminent. They indulge in their vices or they beg God for forgiveness. One guy, played by Ron Perlman, is even seen shooting his guns at one of the comet's fragments. 

     The comets strike Earth and all life is killed. Except for the president and several of her top people (unfortunately for her son, played by Hill, he is not one of them), who escaped on escape pods and traveled several thousand years into the future. They end up on an alien-dinosaur planet, and they have some sort of nudist paradise (they're all naked; I guess they were trying to emulate the Garden of Eden/Adam and Eve mentality). The president is soon eaten by one of these alien-dinosaurs.

    The movie closes with one more after-credits scene. Earth is a desecrated wasteland, and we see Jason, Hill's character, emerge from the rubble of the station they were in. He tries to livestream from his phone, telling his now-dead followers about how he is now the last man on Earth.

Sounds like a bizarre movie, right? Yeah, it is. But it's supposed to be. It's a dark comedy and a scathing satire on the American political climate. But I won't get too much into that. Politics aren't for movie reviews.

THE C.R.A.P.S. SYSTEM

When I review movies, I like to use my own reviewing system, called the CRAPS system. CRAPS stands for Characters, Rewatchability, Artistry, Plotlines, and Soundtrack. Yes, I made the acronym be that on purpose. But it works.

-Characters: 10/10. Really loved the characters in this. The protagonists are people to root for and hate to see be ignored, and the antagonists are people you love to hate.

-Rewatchability: 10/10. I would definitely watch this again. 

-Artistry: 8/10. Big points for the dark comedy and satire elements, but it also might be a little too out-of-the-box for some.

-Plotlines: 9/10. Great story and I loved to see where it went and how everything unfolded.

-Soundtrack: 7/10. Honestly I didn't pay too much attention to the music, but when I did it was pretty cool.