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On Karate Kid Legends and the Simulacrum of Honor

At some point during Karate Kid Legends, right after Jackie Chan channels grief through a steaming teacup and just before the film turns into a TikTok AMV with kung fu, I realized something. I wasn’t watching a movie—I was watching a product. A legacy-branded content block wrapped in nostalgia gauze and corporate aspirations, a Sony-flavored parfait of identity politics, moralism, and IP reclamation. It wants so badly to matter, but can’t stop checking itself in the mirror to see if it looks lik

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On Karate Kid Legends and the Simulacrum of Honor

Mickey 17 and the Emptiness of "Eat the Rich" Cinema

This is how I imagine the Mickey 17 pitch meeting went down: Producer: It's a sci-fi movie about cloning—when the main character dies, he's regenerated with his memories intact. But then, he accidentally gets cloned while he's still alive, and now there are two of him. Studio: So, The Sixth Day? And also- Producer: No, no, it's different! It tackles all the themes Hollywood pretends to care about—climate change, colonization, corrupt corporations, the "orange man," and the working class being ex