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War of the Worlds am awful. All characters not only bad, but super duper awful; make grey-noodle in not-skull sink to heights of Bizarro World. War of the Worlds show aliens good, disaster good, and Amazon and American Government Bad, Bad, Bad: am not sad at all with non-Propaganda of life-sucking brain-rot.

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Bizarro Break (Now!):

Okay; that was tricky to write in-character for Bizarro. Seriously; f##k this movie. This would've been box office suicide for sure. Who thought this 1/10 mess was honestly a good idea?

Give it a miss.

Or in Bizarro: Film am Great!

Mickey 17 seems like it was green-lit because of Bong Joon Ho's Oscar-winning film Parasite (the first non-English language film to win Best Picture); and though the guy's certainly a man with a vision, it seems like he got a little too off-the-rails in campiness for some American audiences out there. I didn't mind it though; it kind of evoked parts of Red Dwarf (with the industrial mining ship), Empire Strikes Back and Interstellar (with the snow planet setting), and of course there were even strong elements of Joon Ho's own Okja (circa the aliens).

This film kind of shows that Parasite is Bong Joon Ho's most grounded work in recent memory. And of course Mickey 17 definitely feels like Hollywood's attempt to try and build a practical 'production bridge' with South Korean film and television filmmakers. Will it work in the long run? Considering this film flopped at the box office, I'd say the over-budgeted approach is certainly dead, but the more modestly funded productions are (hopefully) safer bets. Hollywood NEEDS more co-productions outside the UK alone (Harry Potter, James Bond and Christopher Nolan's movies have spoken for the the UK-USA co-production side of things); South Korea is definitely a hotbed for unconventional ideas and tonal cocktails that have proven themselves with the likes of Parasite and Netflix's Squid Game. And Mickey 17 is another underrated but well-meaning entry in South Korea's growing entertainment sector.

Mickey 17 is good fun, but it deserved better promotion leading up to its release courtesy of Warner Brothers probably deeming it a 'burner film' compared to the rest of its 2025 slate. At 2 hours and 17 minutes it could have been trimmed to a 2-hour sharp affair and it wouldn't have lost what it was trying to say story-wise. And maybe SOME of the monologues could have been trimmed down too.

Mickey 17 is a 7/10 film. 3.5/5 stars. It's a fun space adventure that could have been trimmed slightly and it would have been more focused and faster paced too. At over 2 hours, it could have been an easy 1-hour-30-min or 2-hours exact experience.