David Sirota's "Don't Look Up" Comedy Movie Starring Leo DiCaprio Hits A Little TOO CLOSE To Reality

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4. It's satire. The movie wouldn't worked if they'd used a character like Neil DeGrasse Tyson.

The whole point was that these were a couple of astronomers from a non-Ivy League university that nobody was going to take seriously no matter what they said. Mindy was less panic-stricken when he started hooking up with the tv personality, which was another aspect of the satirical premise - he started to believe that Big Lie even though he knew better.

And you don't know how even a rational, coherent astronomer would behave if confronted with a comet that was for sure going to destroy the earth.

But anyhow, it's satire. Try to enjoy the humor instead of trying to find scrupulous realism.