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I watched Black Bag the other day and it is very good. It is a spy thriller about a spy being tasked to find a mole in the agency, with one of the possible suspects being his wife. There is a definite retro feel to the whole movie, especially the musical score. Dark in places, funny and overall an awesome movie I think a lot of people are going to like. Except for those grumpy folk who hate on everything.
Mickey 17 thoughts
It has been a while since I've written anything about the movies I've seen recently and that is in part cos I'm really bad at getting around to writing anything, but also because there hasn't been much on in the cinema that I've wanted to see. Mickey 17 is one film I was quite keen to see though and overall I enjoyed it. The basic premise is that there is this guy (Mickey) who has unfortunately got into debt to a very psychotic loan shark. So he decides his only way out is by leaving the planet on a ship heading to build a colony on some far flung planet. Except the only role he can get is as an Expendable - he gets to do all the dangerous jobs and if he dies, well that isn't a problem, they can just print out a new clone of him to take over. Hence the title of the movie which focuses on the 17th version of him. The acting is superb; Patterson plays each clone slightly differently as it appears the memory restoration isn't perfect. Ruffalo does an excellent job as the leader of the expedition - a power hungry right wing ultraconservative politican who sees the colony as the only way he's going to gain any kind of power as the Americans in this universe are smart enough not to vote for someone like that. Apparently it is based on a book, so I might give that a go at some point too.
Better Man review
I saw Better Man a few weeks back, but never got around to writing down my thoughts on it until now. It is the biopic of the British music legend Robbie Williams, and I think it is probably the best biopic I've seen in recent years. I really enjoyed it, he did indeed entertain me. But I can certainly see why it hasn't done so good. The main "gimmick" of the film, is that Robbie is played by a CGI chimp. He isn't actually a chimp in the movie - it is a metaphorical representation of how he sees himself. But I think a lot of people watching the trailer were baffled by this and didn't understand what he was doing, so they didn't go see it. Especially in the US which apparently is possibly the only country he hasn't made a name for himself. Which is a shame because it is a damn fine movie that I would be more than happy to see many times over. #MovieReview
Mini review of Companion
I went and saw Companion last week. I was kind of thinking it was more towards the horror genre, but thankfully I was mistaken. Sure, it is full of bloody violence, but it is much more of a comedy than anything. Or at least I found parts of it funny. I thought it was very good. It is basically about a sexbot gaining autonomy over her life, by murdering her abusive jerk of a owner/boyfriend. The how and why I'll leave people to find out by watching it. Most of the cast are unknown to me, but I think they did a stellar job. The main actor I recognised was Jack Quaid, but it was bugging me where I recognised Lukas Gage from so I had to look it up - he's the Cat King in The Dead Boy Detectives. The SFX were also excellent. You don't get to see much in the way of robot bits, but what they did have was very well done.
More movie thoughts
It feels kind of weird, but I've removed all the various hooks Failbook had into my wishlist website https://www.thingsilove.org.uk/. Don't see any reason to work with what is now in a race to the bottom with Xhitter.