In Don't Look Up (2021) Shovels are $599.99 as people have panic-bought them to assumingly build bunkers.

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Build bunkers, dig graves, defend against desperate people, cook breakfast over a fire, work as a paddle for your makeshift bathtub canoe... Shovels are quite versatile in an end-of-days scenario.

I'm gonna be rocking akimbo shovels with a towel on each shoulder

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Well, imma go out and buy 15 shovels now, laters!

Most likely burying their heads in the sand

Yeah I dig them

And if you've been on

You sound like a shill for big shovel.

The Shoveler would approve

You've convinced me

If I remember correctly ... in James Michener's book Alaska, people used their shovels to commute to work, by sitting on them and using them as sleds to slide down a snowy hillside.

There was one of these guys in world War z, started a martial art with shovels after the zed died out

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i sure as hell aint cooking with the same shovel i dig graves

Paddling the school canoe? Ohh you bet that's a paddlin'

Interesting. But why did the General charge for snacks? They were free

Seriously tho why? Was it a power move?

Kate wondering about that before making out at the end of the movie really made me laugh.

The character's name is General Themes. I take it as jab at capitalism.

I wasn't sure If it was something to do with the military over charging for stuff in their budget. Haven't 100% Been able to rationalise it, still makes me laugh

Seriously. He's a three star general. He works at the Pentagon.

Because the pentagon ALWAYS gets paid, even when it doesn't make sense no amount of questions will stop or change that.

first of all he never ask for money they gave them so he just took it why not?

Sure the world ended but for a brief beautiful moment we made share holders really happy.

This has the same energy as

Spade Holders

Director saw some gen z doomer memes and made a movie about it thinking he’s a genius.

I saw a message in chat in a livestream in the movie a bit after that scene that said someone would buy a shovel for about $5000

“willing to pay 5k for a shovel”

I took is as a social commentary like burying your head in the sand. We pay ridiculous amounts of money to stay distracted.

"Buying duped shovel" willing to pay 15 keys

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I lay pipe for a living and I ain't never ever hand digging shit if I don't have to. Digging even a shallow hole with a shovel is back breaking work.

I built a bunny enclosure for my sister years ago. Dug a pit 8 feet by 4 feet and about 4 feet deep to bury chicken wire, so rabbit could dig but not escape. That was like over 6 straight hours of digging, felt like I was broken in half after.

Damn wish I got to lay some pipe for a living!

Preach it! I dug foxholes for five years and never intend on doing it again.

I used to build BMX jumps as a kid and digging was a bitch. On top of that, we only dug holes, not caves, if we dug caves we would have died in a collapse.

Amy Mainzer -- an astronomer, professor and the principal investigator on NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (Neowise) -- helped McKay with many of the scientific aspects of Don't Look Up. Despite having a planet-killer-sized asteroid named after her, Mainzer recommended that McKay change the threat to Earth from an asteroid to a comet. She joined McKay on I'm So Obsessed and shared why she thought the characters in Don't Look Up would buy shovels and how that would lead to a shovel shortage.

What was their rationale for the change? That a comet would be more likely to appear unexpectedly?

It really is hard to dig a hole with a shovel let alone without one. I could see this happening.

“You gotta have the hole already dug. Otherwise, you’re talking about 45 mins of digging; and who knows who’ll be coming along in that time. Pretty soon, you may have to dig two or three more holes; you could be there all fucking night.”

Good thing I own a backhoe.

To be fair the shovel is a groundbreaking invention.

Take your filthy upvote

god fucking damn it

No wonder RoT are pking me when all I want to do is complete a damn cluescroll...

$11 🦀🦀🦀

There's always one

There's always one

Lmfao

I thought no one believed him at this point in the movie

Think it was polarised at this point.

It wasn't really ever a case of not believing in the comet itself, it was mass disbelief that anything would come of it. Like a collective denial that "someone will just deal with it" so just get on with your life.

No, not no one. The movie gives us hints that there are still lots of people with varied opinions here. For example Leo had 250k followers and typed in scientific roasts to some dumbasses (first half of the movie). Or during animations there were snapshots of children posing with spacecraft and usual "my son wants to be cosmonaut someday, we support you!".

I noticed that too. Made me wonder if I had missed a reference, especially when a shovel flew by at the end. Maybe something got cut.

There’s a lady earlier in the movie who talked about cornering the market on shovels.

How do you get rich during a gold rush?

Nice catch.

I mean… it’s mentioned a ton in the movie and was made out to be a huge deal.

The anxiety this movie gave me last night watching it. Was too real man. I’m just embarrassed to be human, because it’s pretty on the nose.

I feel you man. It's crazy how much if reflects the pandemic, despite being written before it and as a nod to the devastating effects of climate change. It's frustrating to watch this movie in a world that is still headed straight towards disaster, factory farming going stronger than ever and just countless, countless environmental travesties occurring constantly. I worry there really is no hope that people can ever change until climate change has already destroyed our world.

I couldn't watch, once I got the general theme that they were gonna replay, over and over... it was too realistic, I don't want a movie making me feel so frustrated. I literally fast forwarded through just about the whole movie because of the anxiety, the asteroid was cool i guess...

same, this movie touched some nerves I didn't knew I had

There is this

Is it wrong that I now have the urge to buy a shovel?

Maybe get a box of tampons at the same time, so it looks more casual.

We live in a society

“There are more people per capita.”

No satire is allowed anymore lol

Big fan of this movie. Imperfect, but they can’t all be Dr Strangelove

I couldn’t be disagree more. Pile of shit this movie

What blows my mind is apparently the movie was written in 2019, before coronavirus. I know it's supposed to be about climate change, but the predictions relevant to the coronavirus response are downright spooky.

I think the pandemic and everything that came out of it really drilled the message in: the don’t look up crowd, panic buying random items, and more than anything the intense frustration about how stupid and selfish humanity can be in the face of facts and impending doom. I watched it a few days back and it’s still lingering

I'm sure a lot of the covid relations are just updated pages in the script like days before shooting. Happens all the timr

this is so damn accurate about the stupid world we live in

yeah didn't expect much watching that movie and was mildly surprised, it was actually entertaining

It was like watching Idiocracy II

You've got to DIG YOURSELF OUT OF THE SHIT!

$29.99

This movie will be a cult classic if the world manages to actually survive the next few decades.

Not sure we're on the same page of what cult classic means

It’s gonna be up there with idiocracy in a few years

I hope we'll look back at this film and chortle at the exaggeration and how we bombed our own comet on day 1 because we're not idiots.

Spoiler: there really is a comet coming and the world leaders have opted NOT to tell us until it's 24 hours away from impact.

I thought it was a reference to the legend/story of the person who became rich overnight by selling shovels to incoming gold rush miners in San Francisco. Turns out a science advisor for the movie suggested the shovel bit.

this is the real reason.

Or maybe because everyone is burying their heads in the sand?

They literally say in the movie people are panic buying shovels, IDK how this is a clever detail

It's the price gouging thats the clever detail.

I wish the DLU-verse had more movies.

Why the dude is looking up?

looking at the com- oh

Leo is appreciating the title.

Excellent movie. Thought provoking and honestly I could see that happening. My question is the joint India, Russia, China launch I felt that maybe the US had a hand in the explosion so they could still have a chance to mine the metals from the comet. Anyone else feel That way?

Yup, my first thought was sabotage

Oh, definitely. That was a bit of a subtle nod to US interference when the actions of another country interferes with "American interests".

I thought the shovels were to bury their heads in the sand so they don't look up lol I may have been watching too much South Park before I saw this though

Shovel

At this point, YouTube would have been flooded with "build your own shovel with aluminum from cans" videos and subsequently also drove up the price of bricks and hair dryers for homemade forges.

This movie was shit. A dumb movie for dumb people that hits you so hard over the head that it makes dumb people feel smart for understanding it.

A text message in a live stream at the end was a person asking for a shovel, offering $5k

I thought that people were hoping to be able to get pieces of the meteor after it broke up (per the government's plan) since it was going to have so many valuable resources so shovels were selling out so people could go meteor hunting once the pieces fell.

You mean the pieces that were going to fall into the middle of the ocean?

This was exactly my thought. Inflation by greed!

is this movie as bad as some people said it was?

It's great although it tends to belabor the point and could have used some better editing. Most people that don't like it are the types that this movie parodied.

My personal vote is yes - Netflix keeps managing to take banger casting rosters and a decent plot idea, and execute like a kid who copied his homework and doesn’t show any substance. They imitate what other better movie productions are doing and it feels cheap and often results in meandering plots that aren’t engaging. This had many isolated moments of being funny, but the whole thing together didn’t grab me - I’m pretty easy to please movie wise, and if my attention is wandering to other shit 30 mins into an over 2 hour movie, something is off.

depends on your capability to appreciate a political satire

Of course not. People's critiques are up their own ass with this movie because the metaphor is laid on too thick but I think the movie accomplishes what it sets out to do.

I loved it, at least, and some comments here do too. I found it built up nicely to the second half where it really gets going.

It's terrible lol

It’s great. Highly recommended. A massive Netflix hit. Popped the stock price even.

The guy is clearly looking up, what were the writers even thinking?

Did people not see what happened in the movie like the whole earth is gone, tf you're little bunker gonna do?

Jonah Hill survived without a scratch. So a bunker would at the very least help them survive the initial impact....now beyond that, they are fucked.

We are so fucked as a race.

I thought the shovels were mine the asteroid with.

Not sure why you're down voted because that was my impression. That everyone was hoping to go retrieve any bits that landed that the government didn't get and make money.

It was just like buying toilet paper in the early Covid days. It doesn't even make any sense but people started panic buying it.

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Jonah Hill's character does survive at the end (by pure luck mind you) from being inside that building at the end, so I guess it is potentially possible being in a strong enough bunker would have saved you. Chunks of the planet were certainly blown off but large parts mostly remained...toasty but still there.

Wanted this movie to be so much better than it ended up being, something just felt forced and unnatural about the whole thing, like it was a bunch of half-assed marrying of plots from Deep Impact, Armageddon, Idiocracy and Seeking a Friend for the End of the World. Too many Netflix movies feel like a mediocre director trying to rip off plots and copy/imitate techniques that other established ones use.

I watched Idiocracy straight after this as a recommendation. Underrated film

Bad movie

Bad person. See I can do it too.

Agreed, it's like

I doubt you could build a bunker with a shovel. It's probably more pretentious "bury your head in the sand" metaphors. As if the movie didn't try to have enough of that...

Dude don’t ruin these idiots fun with logic. Of course bunkers are built with shovels. It it only takes an entire day to do half a grave. I don’t get how so many people enjoyed this dog shit movie. It has nothing to do with being a quality movie and everything to do with people starving for Schadenfreude.

Please be based in California, this is a hilarious joke that's in every single goldrush documentary I've sat through.

It’s downtown Lansing, MI.

Paying the price for digging a hole and sticking your head in the sand.

At first I thought "Nice this salesman will make a payday" but then I remembered It would not matter at all and felt weirdly anxious.

that is very good!

I thought they were making fun of the supreme brick

I thought it was to dig up the asteroid once it landed

That's a nice detail, good spot.

Oh wow, how did I miss this coming out? It's giving me some heavy Neal Stephenson Seveneves vibes!

I had to do some digging in survival school and I probably would have actually died if I had to dig my own bunker with a shovel.

I don't remember toilet paper going up in price.

I assumed it was to dig your own grave. No way in this hell or any other that one can dig a bunker with a shovel.

bro why tf is he looking up? spoilers

I don't think there was a reason to purchase a shovel. Much like the TP shortage following Covid in the UK. Everyone panic bought TP...go figure

There’s a payoff later to this joke when there’s a shovel floating among the exploding debris.

In Don't Look Up (2021) this guy has looked up

nah it's a play on an earlier skit in the movie about a woman hoarding shovels to flip

Anyone else catch the allegory in Don’t Look Up to our current situation with climate change/fossil fuels?

Hey, he’s looking up. Not supposed to do that, it’s right in the title

One of the best poorly rated movies of all time

I haven't seen this movie but given the blunt sense of humor I've heard it has I wouldn't be surprised if the joke is supposed to be they're for burying your heads in the ground

I wonder if the family from Blast From the Past would have been able to survive in their fallout shelter?

There’s a few little hints towards buying shovels and shovels in general throughout the film.

OMG this movie is so genius. If you didn't like it you are not smart and I might hate you.

I don't get what critiques are seeing the bad sides of this movie. What are they?

It's actually also a pretty porgressing running gag going proportionally with the comet's approach

The movie has several references to people panic buying shovels actually, mostly in the background.

I would’ve been kinda annoyed if there was a happy ending, considering the initial deflection attempt was called off. The whole point was to show how their greed led to disaster.

Anyone else watxh this movie and think;

Really says a lot about our society

I thought it was because people thought they would survive and need some equipment to mine the asteroid after it hit for its resources.

The impending doom

So how long would Jonah hill’s character actually survive? We saw the planet was broken apart..

I took it as a joke about "burying their heads in the sand." But it works either way.

Shovels are a running gag in the background for a portion of the movie.

wow excellent catch

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Oh wow

That's an incredibly stupid detail. Any store would just run out of shovels before the price would get anywhere near that high. There are also pretty strict anti-price-gouging laws in place.

“I’m tired of digging holes grandpa”

So you're saying I should buy a shovel?

Everyone knows unassuming bunker building is much more classy.

me dying of stage 5 terminal asteroid but it's ok because I have so much money from all those shovels I sold

I do love a movie with a happy ending

Just tie a badger on a stick and use that. It is the same.

I think the reason critics hated this movie is because it make them feel uncomfortable. But that was a whole point of the film. Another theory I saw was because the movie calls out the very media structures for lack of attention and shows how they make it harder to call to action by distracting us with celebrities and other non issues.

This may also be a critique on how capitalism profits off people’s need

IIRC one of the news briefs foreshadowed the shovel panic buying. This was a detail in the background calling back to that joke.

I love this movie

I noticed that when I watched it!

"Don't look up" my ass, he's clearly looking up!

Unrealistic. The federal gov't should've banned the sell of expensive c̶o̶v̶i̶d̶ ̶t̶e̶s̶t̶ ̶k̶i̶t̶s̶ I mean P̶P̶E̶ I mean shovels and arrested everybody who is hoarding them.

Yeah, that’s the point. This wasn’t a hidden thing. That’s the whole point.

It's Movie Details, not hidden movie things, or unfound Easter eggs. Dial down the douche.

I thought about posting this but I thought it was too obvious for a movie detail. Nice catch!

Try 5k