Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Been rewatching clips of this to work on an impression and now I just keep mumbling “Let’s see Paul Allen’s balls” and cackling.
A quibble I have about most sci-fi involving clones is that they always leave it ambiguous whether or not the clones eat pussy; not so for Mickey 17.
I thought dystopian sci-fi was kind of a dead genre, especially dystopian sci-fi so critical of the machinations of capitalism and imperialism. Mickey 17 proved me wrong. It manages to be dark, humorous, and at points heartwarming without taking any jarring turns into safe audience friendly happy ending town that seems to…
Some people have analyzed this film through a queer theory lens, but it reminds me of this time a guy at a house party I was throwing had his pre-ban Four Loko stolen from my fridge. The Nietzschean ubermensch who took Darren’s Four Loko persisted at the party and shared the same Taco Twelve Pack my mom bought for us. Unlike our protagonists they were able to get away with their crime.
The fact that Sickboy grows up to be such a pathetic fuck makes me so happy. A perfect follow up to the first film.