Barnes on Film - Mandy (Panos Cosmatos, 2018)

I expected him to turn into one of the Hellraiser type biker things, as it seemed fitting to the journey he was on. Maybe that would happen in a sequel? This did seem like a superhero origin story.

I loved everything to do with Jeremiah and what a tool he was. Some good commentary on men who think they have power (and in some ways do), and how their biggest fear is often to be laughed at or emasculated by women. “I’ll suck your dick” at the end was perfect, and though getting his head crushed seemed fitting, I kind of wanted him to burn like Mandy.

As Gary mentioned, it was odd that he killed the bikers first, but it was an interesting choice, maybe to get that out of the way from our expectations that they’d be in some giant boss fight at the end, which would have been more typical.

So at the end, there are the extra moons or planets or whatever, which was a strange sci-fi touch to add in there. The whole thing was on another planet? Certainly an alternate reality, at least.

As I said before, I didn’t really dig some of the one-liners like, “You ripped my favorite shirt!” But I did like some of the other dialogue, and my favorite line was after Bill Duke says, “You’re probably gonna die,” and Cage says something like, “Don’t be negative.”