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Mickey 17 2025
A extremely rare L for Bong Joon-Ho here. Weirdly disjointed and broad, without any of the biting satire that Bong’s other films are known for. The quirky charm brought on by (most of) the actors cannot save a fundamentally messy script that seems cobbled together out of underwritten characters and jumbled themes. I didn’t hate watching this, in fact I ended it feeling that it was…cute, but I also tend to feel that way walking out of most low-tier Disney movies intended for literal toddlers. For a filmmaker as talented as Bong Joon-Ho, the bar should be higher than “cute”.
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Robin Hood: Men in Tights 1993
I grew up with this film looming in the background of my life. My father loved it, so, as a child, I was under the impression that it was a comedy classic that I wasn’t allowed to watch because it was too risqué, and I was sorely disappointed to find out that it was only a comedy classic to my father because his sense of humor was informed by a lifetime diet of Fox News and Evangelical Puritanism.
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Wolmi Island 1982
It’s interesting seeing a North Korean perspective on the war and on American imperialism, although it definitely suffers from a certain lack of nuance in its uncritical worship of the Kim family. Still, I watched this as part of my EALC class at university, and in retrospect I am surprised by how little the propaganda in this movie differs from the propaganda in American films.
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