{"id":4287,"date":"2022-01-08T16:36:53","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T15:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/08\/why-the-climate-wrecking-craze-for-crypto-art-really-is-beyond-satire-john-naughton\/"},"modified":"2022-01-08T16:36:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T15:36:53","slug":"why-the-climate-wrecking-craze-for-crypto-art-really-is-beyond-satire-john-naughton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/08\/why-the-climate-wrecking-craze-for-crypto-art-really-is-beyond-satire-john-naughton\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the climate-wrecking craze for crypto art really is beyond satire | John Naughton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Critics attacked Don\u2019t Look Up for being over the top. But the mania for NFTs shows how on-the-money the movie is<\/p>\n

On 24 December, the movie Don\u2019t Look Up<\/a><\/em> <\/a>began streaming on Netflix following a limited release in cinemas. It\u2019s a satirical story, directed by Adam McKay, about what happens when a lowly PhD student (played by Jennifer Lawrence) and her supervisor (Leonardo DiCaprio) discover that an Everest-size asteroid is heading for Earth. What happens is that they try to warn their fellow Earthlings about this existential threat only to find that their intended audience isn\u2019t interested in hearing such bad news.<\/p>\n

The movie has been widely watched but has had a pasting from critics. It was, said the Observer<\/a><\/em>\u2019s Simran Hans<\/a>, a \u201cshrill, desperately unfunny climate-change satire\u201d. The Guardian<\/em>\u2019s Peter Bradshaw found<\/a> it a \u201claboured, self-conscious and unrelaxed satire\u2026 like a 145-minute Saturday Night Live<\/em> sketch with neither the brilliant comedy of Succession<\/a><\/em>\u2026 nor the seriousness that the subject might otherwise require\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\nCritics attacked Don\u2019t Look Up for being over the top. But the mania for NFTs shows how on-the-money the movie is
\nOn 24 December, the movie Don\u2019t Look Up began streaming on Netflix following a limited release in cinemas. It\u2019s a satirical story, directed by Adam McKay, about what happens when a lowly PhD student (played by Jennifer Lawrence) and her supervisor (Leonardo DiCaprio) discover that an Everest-size asteroid is heading for Earth. What happens is that they try to warn their fellow Earthlings about this existential threat only to find that their intended audience isn\u2019t interested in hearing such bad news.
\nThe movie has been widely watched but has had a pasting from critics. It was, said the Observer\u2019s Simran Hans, a \u201cshrill, desperately unfunny climate-change satire\u201d. The Guardian\u2019s Peter Bradshaw found it a \u201claboured, self-conscious and unrelaxed satire\u2026 like a 145-minute Saturday Night Live sketch with neither the brilliant comedy of Succession\u2026 nor the seriousness that the subject might otherwise require\u201d. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Critics attacked Don\u2019t Look Up for being over the top. But the mania for NFTs shows how on-the-money the movie is On 24 December, the movie Don\u2019t Look Up began streaming on Netflix following a limited release in cinemas. It\u2019s a satirical story, directed by Adam McKay, about what happens when a lowly PhD student …<\/p>\n

Why the climate-wrecking craze for crypto art really is beyond satire | John Naughton<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4287"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}