My new favorite film about pushing buttons and tasting sauces.
I really enjoyed Mickey 17. This movie is so packed full of genre, storytelling, and philosophy ideas and almost all of it works together.
Where it starts to breakdown for me is the films examination of Trumpism, which felt heavy handed and dated. But art about Trumpism from 3 weeks ago would probably feel the same way so 🤷
Ages ago when my job was to read scripts for a new play theatre company and advise on what they should produce, I had a rule: no theatre about theatre. If you are going to turn your gaze towards your own medium, you actually need to go as hard as John Waters does here for it to be worth my time.
I just wish I could hear what Cecil B Demented would have to say about David Zaslav, Netflix algorithm movies, and the Transformers franchise.
A perfect meta textual experience. Madame Web foresees three future Spider-Woman movies and does everything necessary in the present to prevent them from happening.
