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Speaker 3: It's the Runner Report. We're gonna talk about Mickey seventeen
Speaker 3: opening this weekend. You know, there's a nineteen sixty five
Speaker 3: movie with Warren Batty called Mickey One. Oh crap, did
Speaker 3: I miss Mickey's two through sixteen? Catching up on those
Speaker 3: would be about as tedious as catching up on The
Speaker 3: Fast and Furious or Transformer movies. Twala, But I checked
Speaker 3: IMDb and I'm in luck I didn't have to catch
Speaker 3: up on fifteen Mickeys that I missed. In Mickey One,
Speaker 3: Warren Batty plays a guy who goes on the run
Speaker 3: from mobsters and hides in another city. In Mickey seventeen,
Speaker 3: Robert Pattinson plays a guy on the run from mobsters
Speaker 3: and hides on a big spaceship. See completely different, glad.
Speaker 3: I checked. Here's the trailer, and we're gonna listen to
Speaker 3: a little more than usual because there's a lot of
Speaker 3: exposition in this one.
Speaker 2: Hi, Nicky, are you experiencing a new versigo?
Speaker 4: I guess I am Robert Patinson in space. Oh wow,
Speaker 4: did you see that? And a meteorite takes off his
Speaker 4: hand and his toes.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't be surprised if you're thinking at this point,
Speaker 3: what have I done?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 4: God?
Speaker 3: Nothing was working out and I wanted to get off
Speaker 3: of EIRs.
Speaker 4: You're planning to be inexpendable. Yeah, you read through the
Speaker 4: whole application.
Speaker 1: Once you die, would print a new version of your body.
Speaker 4: I should have read through it.
Speaker 3: They made me work my ass off on one mission
Speaker 3: after another.
Speaker 5: Every time you die, we learned something new that humanity
Speaker 5: move school.
Speaker 2: Would Yeah, he's a light fish. Fine, fine, fine, biggie.
Speaker 5: It's not looking very good for you.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I'm sure you're used to it by now, But what's.
Speaker 5: It if you like to die?
Speaker 3: Even on my seventeenth go around, I hate dying. He
Speaker 3: just saw a duplicate of himself. That's how we'd all react.
Speaker 2: In the case of multiples, we exterminate every individual permanent deletion.
Speaker 1: Not for me, let's blow up the second hand blooney voice.
Speaker 5: Well, don't you guys do rough papers and then we'll
Speaker 5: just shoot the wizard.
Speaker 4: We had to at least let the song play.
Speaker 3: Mickey seventeen is from South Korean filmmaker Bong June Hoe.
Speaker 3: The director of Parasite, which everyone loved, cleaned up at
Speaker 3: the Oscars in twenty twenty, and this is his first
Speaker 3: movie since then. It's a science fiction satire with abundant
Speaker 3: commentary on class, politics, religion, and how we treat everyone
Speaker 3: and everything that's not exactly like us, and Mickey shows
Speaker 3: he signs onto a space voyage as a low class expendable,
Speaker 3: which you heard in the trailer. Since we ended the
Speaker 3: draft in the US, the military has been known as
Speaker 3: our employer of last resort. But Mickey's got it even rougher.
Speaker 3: He does all the lousy jobs that get him killed,
Speaker 3: and then a new body's printed for him, and his
Speaker 3: store memories are put into the new body, and by
Speaker 3: the time we get to the seventeenth one, things start
Speaker 3: going haywire on a big space colonization mission. Now, I
Speaker 3: got to admit a couple of things up front. I
Speaker 3: despise time loop movies or anything similar, any kind of
Speaker 3: groundhog Day or clone stuff about the only tolerable one
Speaker 3: that I can even think of is the tom Cruise
Speaker 3: one called Edge of Tomorrow from about ten years ago,
Speaker 3: and even that's borderline. Also not a huge r pat groupie.
Speaker 3: Not into the sparkly vampires. I like the Batman movie
Speaker 3: was in, but not him as Batman so much. That said,
Speaker 3: if you wonder whether Pattinson can do more than sulk,
Speaker 3: he did a movie with the Safty Brothers called Good
Speaker 3: Time You Can Catch and I think I'm the only
Speaker 3: living defender of him in David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis, possibly also
Speaker 3: the only person to have seen Cosmopolis here as Mickey.
Speaker 3: As you heard in the trailer, he's taken on this irritating,
Speaker 3: cartoonish ratso rizzo type of voice that nearly wrecks the movie.
Speaker 4: Honestly.
Speaker 3: Other performances are so broad and cartoonish that they kind
Speaker 3: of pull you out of things, particularly Mark Ruffalo as
Speaker 3: the ship cult leader and commander and boss and rich guy.
Speaker 3: And Tony Kalette is his wife who's obsessed with making
Speaker 3: sauces out of everything. I mean, who isn't though we
Speaker 3: all like a good sauce, am I right? Mo? Although yes,
Speaker 3: you love you would you would cut a bee for
Speaker 3: some sauce. All that said, Mickey seventeen is an odd,
Speaker 3: great looking movie that doesn't quite give you what you
Speaker 3: expect from the trailer and comes from an actual artist
Speaker 3: who you know is going to bring a little extra
Speaker 3: to the table. In tone, it reminded me a bit
Speaker 3: of his snow Piercer movie from a few years back.
Speaker 3: But that's actually been eleven years since that movie came out,
Speaker 3: and I haven't divided eleven years by fifths of vodka.
Speaker 3: But let's just say I don't remember that as well
Speaker 3: as I'd like the movie. This movie, Mickey seventeen, is
Speaker 3: two hours and seventeen minutes, and the way it's paced,
Speaker 3: you can feel it. It can drag, But I think
Speaker 3: sometimes that's a trade off you make when you're getting
Speaker 3: something that isn't just a product or content from an
Speaker 3: original like Bong June Ho. I would turn those Doge
Speaker 3: Butcher's loose cutting this one. I mean, would you tell
Speaker 3: Kubrick he could stand a kind of minute or two
Speaker 3: out of Barry Linden. No, For the most part, movies
Speaker 3: about Clones, Blade Runner, Replicants and the like, those are
Speaker 3: commentaries about who counts as a full human being, and
Speaker 3: who doesn't doesn't take a code breaking genius to apply
Speaker 3: that kind of sci fi to our lives right now,
Speaker 3: whether we're talking about immigrants, homeless, trans people, anyone non white,
Speaker 3: or whoever happens to be the punching down target doujour.
Speaker 3: I don't think Bong June Hose strikes out much bold
Speaker 3: new territory with Mickey, But the inhabitants of the alien
Speaker 3: planet are pretty fun. They're like Tarti grades acrossed with
Speaker 3: buffaloes as well as a giant set of knuckles. The
Speaker 3: movie's a mixed bag, but it's got more to like
Speaker 3: than dislike, and I'll put up with more for a
Speaker 3: movie that isn't just more of the same assembly line
Speaker 3: save the cat formula garbage. But if there were two
Speaker 3: of me sitting there, one of us might have dozed
Speaker 3: off in a couple spots before we went off afterward
Speaker 3: and looked for someone for a three way. And yes,
Speaker 3: that come up in the movie. That does come up
Speaker 3: in the movie, so to speak. Weirdly, if there were
Speaker 3: two of most sitting here, they'd still get the same
Speaker 3: number of rim shots. And I'm gonna leave that to
Speaker 3: science to explain. That's your runner report, Moe, what do
Speaker 3: you think of that?
Speaker 5: Well, first, I'm going to say that I fully disagree
Speaker 5: with you about time loop movies. I actually happen to
Speaker 5: like time loop movies. And I was getting ready to
Speaker 5: interrupt you. But did you saved yourself when you said
Speaker 5: Edge of Tomorrow?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: They changed the title of it because I think that
Speaker 3: title lived. I repeat, yeah, it sounded like a soap opera,
Speaker 3: didn't it. Well, I actually hope they do a sequel
Speaker 3: to that movie on sub level.
Speaker 4: Or like Johnny Carson's Edge of Wetness? Do you remember that? Vaguely?
Speaker 4: Vaguely it was the fake Sopra on his show.
Speaker 3: I was I wasn't always one hundred percent into this,
Speaker 3: but there's enough good that it outweighs the bad, and
Speaker 3: I think it's well worth your time seeing.
Speaker 5: Well worth Well, okay, that's high praise.
Speaker 4: All right, Well, nothing's perfect. I mean, look at phush.
Speaker 4: Oh gosh, that.
Speaker 5: Was uncalled for a You got to give him a
Speaker 5: rum shot for insulting you like that.
Speaker 3: Well, I think that would be the humble thing of
Speaker 3: him to do that, would that would show goodness? There
Speaker 3: we go? Have you seen any of Bong's other movies. No,
Speaker 3: I've actually not seen Parasite yet. Oh I have not. Oh,
Speaker 3: you got to see Parasite, and I think it's because
Speaker 3: it was the pandemic or something. I just wasn't into
Speaker 3: it at that time. Something like that.
Speaker 4: Now, what's that one on the train that I mentioned?
Speaker 3: Snow Piercer, snow pier I've seen snow piercerner post, I've
Speaker 3: seen snow Piercer. I like that one. Yeah, I keep
Speaker 3: getting him mixed up. And you as a lifelong martial
Speaker 3: artist like me. No, Master Bong su Hang, thank you
Speaker 3: for that. I think the same thing, same thing. There.
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