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Mickey 17 2025
It pains me to say it, but Mickey 17 is somehow both undercooked and overproduced at the same time. It's an allegorical film that's more interested in the initial novelty of its many, many analogies than the potential to actually elaborate on them and reach an engaging thesis. Plot-wise, it feels like someone took the first act of every episode from the first season of a sci-fi series and stitched them together into a feature film, then added a 15…
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Dune: Part Two 2024
paul: peepee poopoo
everyone else: LISAN AL GAIB!!!!!sincerely, wow. they did it. they did dune. truly it's the lawrence of arabia, the godfather part two, the LOTR of sci-fi. the badly needed reminder that art can be a blockbuster, and that blockbusters can be art. shoutout to chani for being a real one
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Gladiator II 2024
The most memorable line - apart from just ripping Epicurus - was Denzel saying "hose them down," because for the next 2 hours I sat there wondering if Ancient Rome actually had hoses or if Ridley Scott was just dodging history again (I looked it up: Apollodorus of Damascus may have started the practice of using ox gut to carry and dispense water in the BC, and Heron of Alexandria invented a form of fire engine around 65 AD, so…
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