Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
I did give this a three, because I mean, come on (and also tsk-tsk for the treatment of trans people, even if it IS from the 2000's) -- but when I watched it I was looking for a movie so stupid it would turn MY brain off, and I do believe it worked.
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
There are numerous criticisms one might make of Mickey 17, of the writing or pacing or character work or any number of other things.
And yet at the time of watching it enraptured me completely and left me with a paradoxical impression of a near-perfect film (for me), despite its flaws. I loved almost everything about it -- the glimpses of future society, the non-subtle social commentary (most loudly from Mark Ruffalo), the philosophical conundrums, and most of all the…