• misk@sopuli.xyz
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    14 days ago

    Oh, I thought it released already since it „appeared” 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.

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      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.

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      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

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      I hope filmmakers keep expermenting with unusual premises like this. Can’t help but think they’ll gesture to the financial performance of this one and use it as an excuse not to take risks.

      Maybe it will have a long tail on streaming!

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    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.

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    I wanted to go see it but it’s been a busier month than I was expecting. I should do a better job of keeping my calendar up to date

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      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.

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              “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.

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    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.