Queue Tips: Six seven

I watched "Mickey 17" recently, and I surprisingly wasn't that much lost even though I haven't seen the first sixteen yet.  It must be very popular to make it to this many installments.  The challenge is how to make sure it doesn't get stale.

Anyways, it turns out this is not a Disney movie.  Nor is it a documentary about a teen film star who was born around 1917.  Nor is it a sequel to "1917".  That would probably be "1918".

I don't typically like narration in films.  I get that it's necessary sometimes.  Maybe they really did need it in this movie.  But I don't know.  I kind of prefer figuring stuff out instead of being laid out for me.

Overall I liked it.  I like Joon-ho Bong films.  Or is it, Bong Joon-ho?  Not sure.  The Korean guy.  "Mother" is probably still my favorite.  "Parasite" maybe ties it or a close second.  This one was more of just a fun watch, kind of like how I felt about "The Host".  I did not really like "Snowpiercer" and "Okja" though.  (Okja keeps being autocorrected to Okra lol.)

The performances were pretty good, I think.  I didn't instantly recognize Robert Pattinson, even though he somewhat looked familiar.  I try to ignore or forget credits and posters, but I remembered it was him after seeing the names at the end.

The storytelling was good, too.  The problem with stories where anything can happen is that inevitably something has to happen.  So you have all these expectations of sort of wondrous possibilities and then you end up with just this specific string of events.  Which in this film is I guess okay.

I liked the diversity in the cast.  It was cool seeing Stephen Park in a film.  I would like to see more of his wife Kelly Coffield Park though.  It would be awesome to see them in the same project.  Maybe someday in the "In Living Color" movie.

What do you call those frozen creatures that can withstand suspended animation?  It definitely looks like the creepers in this film were based on that.  Can you remind me what they're called?  Its nickname is something something bear, but there's a more official term.  Anyways, I thought that was a good choice.  There was sort of a scientific basis to it.  They also addressed potential viruses and diseased they might encounter in foreign lands so I liked that aspect of it.  The VFX itself though was not that great, just as in the director's other films.  They were just all right.

I wasn't crazy about Mark Ruffalo in this, either in his performance or the character itself.  He just seemed like a one dimensional bad guy type.  Toni Collette was just kind of there.  Should have given the role to Kelly Coffield lol.  

Spoiler alert in case you haven't seen it, but the reason the character is numbered is because he is a clone.  Kinda sad that so many others had died before him.  Many they should have had not that many.  Only like, Mickey six, seven maybe.