Update: so much else interesting leaving the Criterion Channel at the end of the month, not even sure I'll get to most of the Altmans

I like to imagine the sound he'd make when slipping on a banana peel

Wow that's even more directly intense than the backhanded-feeling stuff I've experienced over the years 😅

I agree! It seems like JC didn't know what to do with the matriarchal society worldbuilding at all. Pretty much a wasted opportunity, and one of many things about the movie that feels underbaked/amateurish. But I love that he was at least always going for an ambitious concept!

She's really enjoyable in it, though the movie deeply under-uses her... She & Jason Statham should have somehow swapped places, screen time-wise. I wish she & Carpenter had worked together more, since she's fun in Escape From LA too (despite some odd choices with that role)

I'm sorta enjoying it in a very esoteric way, but that doesn't surprise me at all 🤣

The one I just finished watching (A Tale of Two Cities 1935, which he carries) had him moustache-less and it honestly felt strange, like when Tom Selleck is clean-shaven. I'd buy that it kept him bound to his own fashion era in a similar way too