Yep - one of the big disappointments of the year, IMO. Not a bad movie, really, but weirdly boring given its premise and Bong's skill. (Interesting, I suppose, that you think Ruffalo's character is an unsubtle Elon Musk parody, instead of the unsubtle Trump parody that everyone else thinks he is.)
Credit where it's due, though: those aliens were pretty adorable! Please just give me a 90-minute movie about oversized tardigrades getting into hijinx, Hollywood, I beg you.
Did anybody else think the villain was way more of a Trump analogue than a Musk parody? He was more of a politician than a tech guy, and the performance felt like a direct impression.
Yeah, I read it as a pretty straightforward Trump caricature - and given Ruffalo's own politics, one he was probably a little too excited to deliver as hammy and uninteresting as possible. There were several elements in the film that didn't exactly work, but that character was a big miss as a whole; I think Toni Collette as sole leader would have made more of an impact.
Mickey 17 feels like a clone - a facsimile or print - of the film it originally set out to be. I really enjoyed the first half, and felt terribly for poor Mickey as he became increasingly subject to casual disregard and inhumanity.
But the second half of the movie turns into a very different film and seems to forget that it was about exploiting a pliable underclass (or an underclass being complicit in its own exploitation and dehumanisation).
As much as I enjoyed the aliens, Bong somehow let the corresponding theme of colonisation and genocide hijack the movie (or failed to integrate his Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind alien clones/theme into the bigger picture). If someone came back from the toilet during the second half of the movie, they could be forgiven for thinking that they had stumbled into a different theatre.
Yep - one of the big disappointments of the year, IMO. Not a bad movie, really, but weirdly boring given its premise and Bong's skill. (Interesting, I suppose, that you think Ruffalo's character is an unsubtle Elon Musk parody, instead of the unsubtle Trump parody that everyone else thinks he is.)
Credit where it's due, though: those aliens were pretty adorable! Please just give me a 90-minute movie about oversized tardigrades getting into hijinx, Hollywood, I beg you.
Did anybody else think the villain was way more of a Trump analogue than a Musk parody? He was more of a politician than a tech guy, and the performance felt like a direct impression.
Yeah, I read it as a pretty straightforward Trump caricature - and given Ruffalo's own politics, one he was probably a little too excited to deliver as hammy and uninteresting as possible. There were several elements in the film that didn't exactly work, but that character was a big miss as a whole; I think Toni Collette as sole leader would have made more of an impact.
Mickey was astonishingly bad. But not as astonishing as the unilateraly positive reaction towards it.
Mickey 17 feels like a clone - a facsimile or print - of the film it originally set out to be. I really enjoyed the first half, and felt terribly for poor Mickey as he became increasingly subject to casual disregard and inhumanity.
But the second half of the movie turns into a very different film and seems to forget that it was about exploiting a pliable underclass (or an underclass being complicit in its own exploitation and dehumanisation).
As much as I enjoyed the aliens, Bong somehow let the corresponding theme of colonisation and genocide hijack the movie (or failed to integrate his Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind alien clones/theme into the bigger picture). If someone came back from the toilet during the second half of the movie, they could be forgiven for thinking that they had stumbled into a different theatre.
Such a bummer. I had high hopes for this one. Agree about tardigrades getting into hijinx. I'd watch and enjoy that. Lol.