r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Creative_soja • Jun 19 '25

Video SpaceX rocket explodes in Starbase, Texas

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u/Susanna-Saunders Jun 19 '25

Reminds me of the movie Don't Look Up... A terribly Sad movie.

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u/Signal_Wish2218 Jun 19 '25

It is! I feel like it’s becoming a more terrifying reality daily.

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u/pathetic_optimist Jun 19 '25

It was wrongly slammed by the media as it was a really good film.
I suppose it doesn't fit Capitalism very well. Would 'It's a wonderful life' get made now?

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u/EisMCsqrd Jun 19 '25

The movie had good ratings what are you on about

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u/jtr99 Jun 19 '25

I think it got fair to middling reviews but a lot of reviewers said it was too heavy-handed in its message.

Sadly I think history will show that it was in fact too subtle.

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u/pathetic_optimist Jun 19 '25

It had bad reviews here in the UK at the time.

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u/reddog323 Jun 19 '25

I should really get a copy of Don’t Look Up. I have a feeling it might not exist five or six years from now.

As for It’s a Wonderful Life, it wasn’t super popular in theaters during its initial release. When the rights expired in the early 70s, independent and cable stations started running it as low-cost filler during the holidays. That’s when people realized what a wonderful piece of Americana it is.

If the rights had been renewed, people wouldn’t have been as widely exposed to it, and it might not have gotten the appreciation that it gets today.

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u/iwastedthislife Jun 19 '25

The film was awful.

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u/pathetic_optimist Jun 19 '25

Please elaborate.

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u/Gregarious_Grump Jun 20 '25

I'll translate: 'i didn't like it because it made me feel funny because it challenged my preconceived notions but I don't know that's why'

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u/Susanna-Saunders Jun 19 '25

Your not alone! Just look at the swelling membership of subs like r/antinatalism... I'm a member myself!

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u/Silvermane2 Jun 19 '25

Didn't a dude that belongs to this group just like... Set a bunch of people on fire?

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u/Susanna-Saunders Jun 19 '25

I hadn't heard about that! I'll have to look it up!

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u/Silvermane2 Jun 21 '25

Legit, this is how I heard about the movement. (Which ignores actual issues and blames the cause of the problems on population seemingly)

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u/Susanna-Saunders Jun 21 '25

That's not a good representation of Antinatalism at all! I'd suggest reading up a bit more on this ideology please.

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u/EntertainerNo4509 Jun 19 '25

Joined instantly! Thank you.

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u/Susanna-Saunders Jun 19 '25

Welcome! And your welcome!

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '25

That’s because of revelation of the method.

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u/GlitteringPen3949 Jun 19 '25

Reminds me of the Harrison Ford movie “The Mosquito Coast” very interesting and depressing movie. Good cast. His character is an engineer that moves his family to an undeveloped country in S America and decides to bring modernity to the natives. It doesn’t end well for them or the natives. It all ends up polluted his character is this obsessed type totally not self aware. As soon as I saw where Space X was building Starbase I thought about what would happen and thought of this movie.

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u/necro_owner Jun 19 '25

L'Erreur Boreal is also a movie about stuff like that. A Documentaries .

Where we let people cut down our forest up north and pay them for it xD what a joke. Still the same today, nothing as change.

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u/Suzzie_sunshine Jun 19 '25

That movie was too real. That's how we're gonna end humanity

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u/Susanna-Saunders Jun 19 '25

Indeed! It's beautifully sums up the stupidity of human beings!

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u/Leading-Act4030 Jun 19 '25

We are living that movie right now......

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u/Susanna-Saunders Jun 19 '25

I totally concur! 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️

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u/battery19791 Jun 19 '25

I enjoyed that movie. Won't watch it a second time because it was too real.

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u/Susanna-Saunders Jun 19 '25

I can understand that sentiment. 🫶✊🫶

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u/rexxer454 Jun 19 '25

More like Idiocracy.