Much like our planet, Ron Perlman heats up over Don’t Look Up critics
Hellboy himself is none-too-pleased with the critical reception of Adam McKay’s global warming comedy
Apparently, “at least we tried to do something” isn’t as comforting to the Don’t Look Up creative team as it was the characters. The makers and stars of Adam McKay’s star-studded, big-budget Netflix film that posits a world where everyday people don’t care about climate change, have been lambasting critics who didn’t find their two-and-half-hour epic funny or convincing.
Ron Perlman, who has a rather small but very funny role in the film, is the latest to take a swing at the critical elite who dared to turn their critical eye toward the film. Speaking to The Independent, Perlman expressed, um, disappointment with critics who happened to not like his movie—though, phrasing it in his own eloquent way.
“Fuck you and your self-importance and this self-perpetuating need to say everything bad about something just so that you can get some attention for something that you had no idea about creating,” Perlman said. “It’s corrupt. And it’s sick. And it’s twisted.”
It is twisted how some critics evaluated the film and wrote an opinion for attention, rather than, say their jobs, which is to evaluate and write about movies. For his part, though, he understands that “the internet has almost killed journalism” because bad reviews did not exist before the advent of the World Wide Web. “Now journalism is trying to do everything they can to co-opt and maintain their importance,” which is why no movies get good reviews anymore.