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Apropos of Don't Look Up, 2024 YR4 doesn't yet have an official name (or at least I haven't heard it if it does.) So my friends have started calling it "2024 Dibiasky" as a joke.

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Outside of Ariana Grande's grotesquely long musical number (they had to get their money's worth), Don't Look Up will age well. It's a classier, subtler version of Idiocracy.

It's subtler compared to Idiocracy (most things are), but in the scale of movies, it's still pretty blunt.

Had to be... a lot of people still didn't get the point, or even noticed that there was one.

Sort of like Homelander in The Boys became a MAGA darling, even though he was obviously a Donald Trump satire.

The show-runners had to get so explicit in the later seasons (Pizzagate), that it effectively ruined the show.

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