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I enjoyed it greatly, itβs sad to hear that it had a disappointing turn-out.
Oh, I thought it released already since it βappearedβ on my media center last weekend in a very good quality.
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Pretty good movie with a botched ending. As a person in chronic pain I particularly liked how Pattison played that gentle, accepting attitude you get toward repeated trauma. Sucks that the movie switched into Hollywood mode for the last part, it would be one of my all time favourites otherwise.
Looked like a neat movie i was interested in seeing I just don't like going to movie theaters now that OLED tvs and atmos sound systems exist.
I was kind of hoping it would be this story about this guy that is trapped living forever unable to die. His mind is uploaded and then used for thousands of years. Always the one that goes on risky missions. All his memories are synced and he remembers every death.
It would be this kind of story about how this guy copes with his reality goes through all kinds of emotions starting with excitement then depression and nihilism and then ends where he embraces a form of insanity and absurdism.
Instead it was just a narrative about trump in space.
That's basically what the book is about
Sick! looks like I got a new book to read.
It was an interesting movie I thought, not terrible but not great
I enjoyed it, but it felt like it could've done with some editing.
Spoilers in which I try to figure out how I'd fix it, as if I know anything about this
Timo and Kai in particular both disappear for large stretches of the film after getting enough attention to be significant parts of the film but not enough to satisfactorily conclude their storylines. Maybe combining their roles would have worked? Replace Kai's brief romantic interest with Timo wanting his "friend" back. Timo wants Mickey 17 specifically because he won't push back on Timo's bullshit. That way the now-combined storyline for that character gets to feel much more complete and we're probably also taking less time to do it because we don't need to introduce Kai
I saw this in theaters, it was great! Wouldn't mind rewatching it at some point.
I wanted to go see it but itβs been a busier month than I was expecting. I should do a better job of keeping my calendar up to date
It was the same with Morbius for me. Please Sony re-release it π₯Ί
I honestly found this movie so boring that I went for a walk around the mall for a bit, half way through. The mall was mostly closed, so if two of my friends weren't still watching the film I would have gone home.
I grudgingly returned to the cinema and watched the incredibly boring conclusion.
And as someone else pointed out, it really was made with the intent to be a victory lap at trumps assumed failure at a second presidency, so that not actually being the case hangs over the movie rather embarassingly.
Movie was filmed in 2022, written before that, before he even confirmed he was running again. Of course people who reach this hard rarely look for facts, but rather, what their preconceived notions confirm to them.
Watch the film and tell me that Mark Ruffalo's character isn't meant to be Trump, his followers aren't meant to be MAGA cultists, and the explicit plot point of him losing two presidential elections isn't a reference to him losing to the Dems a second time.
So what if it was written before trump announced he was rerunning, most people could see where the tide was turning, and the movie pulls no punches in it's satire of him.
So what if it was written before trump announced he was rerunning
I mean we all knew he was running again, that's not even a reach lol
I originally had a lengthy reply but ultimately realized we see the movie the same way, my only issue with what you've said here, then, is that the movie refers to two losses, but fail to mention that it never discusses a win.
This creates a layer of difference between the fictional universe and ours (nevermind the entire near-future, space-fairing-humanity nature of the plot), and continues to confirm that what the original comment said was a reach and not a fact.
Snowpiercer in space. Not that great
If you're going to oversimplify a story that much, remember there are only a couple dozen or so different stories, and they were all written thousands of years ago.
In this case, Mickey 17 would more accurately be Moses in Space, just like Snowpiecer is Moses on a Train. And since neither are original, neither are that great.
Itβs the same director. Itβs not the stretch you argue lol
That's irrelevant to my actual argument.
Not everything new is based on something from a few thousand years ago. Sure you can argue anything
"Based on" wouldn't be the right term. That would require some knowing intention to make a new version of an old story. I'm saying even if you try to make a new story, it'll either suck, or be very much like another story written thousands of years ago.
Moses on the polar express
I enjoyed it but definitely glad I didn't pay to see it in the theater. The first half of the movie wasn't very exciting because they already showed all of it in trailers.