You are alone now

This one was very long awaited! Seems like it got rescheduled a million times. This movie is a sci-fi blockbuster about a guy called Mickey Barnes who stupidly signs up to be an expendable in space to get away from the mafia on Earth. So, he dies over and over and over again and is re-printed every time. Now, of course, I love space and I love weird disturbing shit and I love watching guys suffer for a whole movie, so I had to catch this one.

This was actually the first Bong Joon Ho movie I've seen. Yes, I still haven't seen Parasite, leave me alone. I really enjoyed the directing style and sense of humor that the movie had. It had some flops in terms of jokes, but so do most movies. I laughed a lot and was at least amused for most of the movie, so hooray!
As has been said a thousand times it's not a subtle movie. The leader of their space expedition is Literally Trump. Talks like Trump... acts like Trump... stupid like Trump... his performance was hilarious especially with his wife Toni Collette standing next to him the whole time, they were an awesome comedic duo. The alien main plot was a colonialism allegory, and I thought it was interesting. The aliens were never really treated as villainous or stupid even when they asked for a death in return for theirs. Mickey 17 treated them with so much respect even though he is kind of a stupid coward. No hate to him. I love him. He grew as a character. And, obviously, the expendable thing is a capitalism allegory, and I Love Those. Mickey the #1 Sufferer. I definitely think it could have explored its concepts a little more, and maybe tied them together more? But it got its point across for sure.
The romance between Mickey and Nasha was wonderful too. Not forced at all and very sweet. She felt like a real person and was a perfect contrast to Mickey 17's... umm pussy attitude which I love so much. She was a great strong female character, without feeling like someone said "umm we need to put a strong female character in here" (one of my least favorite things in movies... Like just write a woman...). She was real for jumping on the opportunity of having two boyfriends even though they could all literally get killed over it. I was expecting her to ask them to start making out or something. I totally thought they were gonna start fucking. 
I did feel like the movie was pulling itself in too many directions sometimes, though. With Nasha and that annoying bisexual girl talking about the Mickeys... I enjoyed that little situation but it really didn't seem relevant outside of proving Nasha's value of Mickey which we already understood? There were a couple other things that were kind of just one off ideas that washed away by the next scene, which made me wish either we lingered more or we just never brought it up in the first place.

Either way I really enjoyed the movie. Good amount of HORNINESS for a movie like this too, it was surprisingly sex-positive (especially towards the idea of fucking clones.... and clones fucking each other....). Overall I understand how people can think of it as a little messy or underdeveloped, but it's a pretty strong movie, and one that people can understand and relate to in a time in America like this. And it was funny. And Robert Pattinson was hot.