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For another, wasted time isn’t merely the function of McKay’s ultra-depressing farce, it’s also the central focus of a film that begs viewers to do something better with the time they have left. Adam McKay’s “Don’t Look Up” is nothing if not one of those films.Ī star-studded comedy of terrors that boasts more A-list celebrities than actual laughs, “Don’t Look Up” may be the most interminable “Oscar movie” of the year (and just when it seemed like “Being the Ricardos” was finally on track to win something!), but it would be wrong to write it off as just “two hours you’ll never get back.” For one thing, it actually runs two hours and 18 minutes, including a couple of sadistic bonus scenes during the end credits that stretch the premise’s one basic joke to astronomical new lengths.

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It doesn’t matter if a movie is good or bad or anything in between: At the end of the day, we cannot hoard our time.Īnd yet, for all of the truth contained in that wisdom, certain films make it almost impossible to shake the feeling that cinema - the most palpably fourth-dimensional of all popular art forms - possesses an unrivaled ability to make us appreciate how we can waste it. As Charlie Kaufman is fond of pointing out, however, every two hours is two hours that you’ll never get back.

And then, not long after that, there were people who watched those movies and snarked, “Well, that’s two hours I’ll never get back” (though it wouldn’t be surprising if that barb originated before the advent of multiple-reel cinema, maybe with some monocled jackass who wasted an entire minute of his life at a screening of William Heise’s 1896 short “The Kiss” only to discover that there wasn’t any tongue).

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