When I first heard that they were making a movie where Arnold Schwarzenegger would play a pregnant man I think my reaction was “what, does the baby come out of his dick??” I’d ask you to cut me a bit of slack as I was 15 years-old at the time. The film in question is called Junior and it marks the second collaboration between Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, and the late comedy auteur Ivan Reitman. This sort of flick should’ve been catnip for a cat like me ‘cuz I fuck with Twins HEAVY! Always have…always will. I only have one tattoo and it’s the phrase “tonight it your night, bro” across my lower back (note: this is a lie). But see folks—Junior came out a month after Pulp Fiction (which DeVito produced, strangely enough) and I was exclusively watching films with loads of bloodshed and briefcases full of stolen diamonds and dudes standing around cussing and taking about obscure pop culture-y stuff….and not at all interested in shit like Junior. I mean—look at the goofy ass poster? It looks terrible…and the contemporary reviews seemed to confirm that suspicion. Flash forward to the plague-ridden hellscape that is June of 2022. The Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade and it is somehow only the 3rd most horrible story of the news week (I already can’t recall which mass shooting happened that week…but I’m positive there were at least two…if not three). A few days later I overheard my girlfriend talking about a film that “was a groundbreaking study of gender role reversal and something that absolutely could not be made in 2022.” I ask her what movie she’s talking about and to my profound surprise…she says JUNIOR! I tell her that I've never seen it.
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When I first heard that they were making a movie where Arnold Schwarzenegger would play a pregnant man I think my reaction was “what, does the baby come out of his dick??” I’d ask you to cut me a bit of slack as I was 15 years-old at the time. The film in question is called Junior and it marks the second collaboration between Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, and the late comedy auteur Ivan Reitman. This sort of flick should’ve been catnip for a cat like me ‘cuz I fuck with Twins HEAVY! Always have…always will. I only have one tattoo and it’s the phrase “tonight it your night, bro” across my lower back (note: this is a lie). But see folks—Junior came out a month after Pulp Fiction (which DeVito produced, strangely enough) and I was exclusively watching films with loads of bloodshed and briefcases full of stolen diamonds and dudes standing around cussing and taking about obscure pop culture-y stuff….and not at all interested in shit like Junior. I mean—look at the goofy ass poster? It looks terrible…and the contemporary reviews seemed to confirm that suspicion. Flash forward to the plague-ridden hellscape that is June of 2022. The Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade and it is somehow only the 3rd most horrible story of the news week (I already can’t recall which mass shooting happened that week…but I’m positive there were at least two…if not three). A few days later I overheard my girlfriend talking about a film that “was a groundbreaking study of gender role reversal and something that absolutely could not be made in 2022.” I ask her what movie she’s talking about and to my profound surprise…she says JUNIOR! I tell her that I've never seen it.