Mickey 17(what to expect)
Scorecard, One Year Anniversary, Nic Cage
Last week's scorecard mentioned our love of a tight 90-minute movie, and this week we have the opposite! What we have for you is 2 hours + of a Robert Pattinson masterclass.
Also it’s officially been
ONE YEAR OF SWEET AND CONDENSED 🎉
Be sure to stick around after the score card and check out a special one year reflection video.
Here’s what we have for you this week:
Concession Stand Scorecard: Mickey 17
Sweet Celebration: Cheers to One Year 🥂
Watchlist Worthy: The Nic Cage run continues
This week’s movie - Mickey 17
Letterboxd Description:
He’s dying to save mankind.
Mickey Barnes, an “expendable” employee, is sent on a human expedition to colonize the ice world Niflheim. After one iteration dies, a new body is regenerated with most of his memories intact. With one regeneration, though, things go very wrong.
Best Watched With
Best watched with fans of The Irishman, Alien, and Challengers.
End credit thoughts
Bong Joon-Ho's Mickey 17 is strange, fun, action-packed, and bursting with ideas—sometimes too many. Based on Edward Ashton's novel, the movie follows Pattinson's Mickey as an "expendable"—a human clone who signs up to die over and over again as part of a space colony mission.
Somehow, this cold, dark world, where people are printed like money to be used unethically in the name of progress for humanity, is also warm, charming, and, in a kind of messed-up way, playful. The story had us scratching our brains as thoughts bubbled to the surface about life’s value, ethics, and love, and the twist that living your one life forever means dying a whole lot—and remembering each time.
There are plenty of laughs along the way thanks to a musical number that made us choke on popped corn and Pattinson bouncing between dry humor and dread in every scene with an accent that transforms him into a character that makes us forget he was ever that glistening vampire in Twilight (jk, people don’t forget). He proves once again he's one of the most compelling actors around.
The supporting cast was great, although we could've done with a little more Steven Yeun and a little less Mark Ruffalo. He plays a tyrant leading the people to the new world, whose schtick starts to sour towards the end. Toni Collette plays Ruffalo’s wife, exploiting the new world, unaware and annoying, and does so perfectly because perfection is what Toni does.
Between the thought-provoking morality of printing literal human beings, there is genuine sci-fi fun to be had. Overall, we had a blast even if the movie was a bit long, but not long enough to keep us from saying:
See this one on the big screen.
Side note about the creatures that look like the offspring of Snuffleupagus and a Tremor aka Graboid—we want whatever plush merch they (hopefully) have coming our way.
Watch the trailer here
ONE YEAR OF SWEET AND CONDENSED 🎉
The Surfer Directed by Lorcan Finnegan
Stop me if you’ve heard me say this before, but I will watch anything Nic Cage is in (even this insane movie I just saw the trailer for). This looks like a sun-soaked Dream Scenario set in Australia and I’m ready to have my anxiety, blood pressure, and discomfort peak in the theater. I think there is a shot of Nic Cage eating a rat in this trailer. What more do you need to know?
-NMD
Letterboxd Description:
When a man returns to his beachside hometown in Australia, many years since building a life for himself in the U.S., he is humiliated in front of his teenage son by a local gang of surfers who claim strict ownership over the secluded beach of his childhood. Wounded, he decides to remain at the beach, declaring war against those in control of the bay. But as the conflict escalates, the stakes spin wildly out of control, taking him to the edge of his sanity..
Also Directed by Lorcan Finnegan:
Without Name (2016)
Vivarium (2019)
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