Romulus weaves together its predecessors' canon in interesting ways, showcases some wild stuff I'd always wondered about and some wild stuff I'd never considered before, and is overall a good (bad) time.
The entire ending was spoiled for me because the fucking director posted footage of it on Instagram two weeks after release and Instagram determined it would be in the best interests of the company to Suggest® that post. ✌️😎✌️
Mahito is led by the hand from one scene to another, stone-faced and barely able to comprehend the fantastical world he's witnessing, and boy, I can relate. A Miyazaki candy shell with a completely hollow center.
• Child Abuse
• Solicitation to Murder
• Assault
• Breaking and Entering
• Forced Labor
• Battery
• Food Tampering
• Wrongful Imprisonment
• Identity Fraud
• Attempted Murder
• Improper Disposal of a Human Body
• Taking Advantage of a Miner
A three-minute excerpt from Kiss Kiss Bang Bang:
• Harmony gets drunk.
• Harmony gets naked for no reason.
• Harmony tells Harry he can sleep next to her in bed but to expect no sexual contact.
• Harmony immediately caves and offers to jerk him off.
• Harmony caves again and offers to sleep with him.
• Harry self-righteously rejects Harmony after learning she slept with his friend…10 years earlier.
Throw in RDJ as a charmless prick who nevertheless…
