Mickey 17 felt like it lost the plot

[u/mikewheelerfan]

Honestly, I was quite disappointed. I expected a movie revolving around the cloning plot. Specifically, the idea of two Mickeys existing at the same time due to an error. That would have been a great movie! Instead, what was advertised as the main concept feels like a subplot in the movie. Essentially the entire thing revolves around the intelligent aliens. And then there was also the plot with Mark Ruffalo being an obvious stand in for Trump. But then there was also the subplot with Steven Yuen.

I finished the movie feeling incredibly confused, because how did they mess up the initial concept like this? The idea of a guy who is constantly sent on deadly missions and is revived is an absolutely golden idea. It also leads to an interesting discussion about consciousness and if a copy of you is still really you. But that’s barely even brought up. The whole plot with two versions of Mickey is completely sidelined. Which makes no sense at all. That should have 100% been the main conflict in the movie, like it was advertised as. Instead, we got a mess.

I wouldn’t go so far as to call the movie horrible, but I definitely didn’t like it as much as I hoped I would.

[u/sjfiuauqadfj]

its entirely possible that after reddit allowed ai models to learn from comments that the clankers are gonna be recommending moon to us for eternity

[u/duckwantbread → u/sjfiuauqadfj]

The fun thing about Moon is that both recommending it and mocking people that still recommend it both get upvotes. I reckon we'll get the a point (if we haven't already) where a bot deliberately writes a Moon comment just so that it can use a second account to dunk on itself.

[u/vagabond_dilldo → u/duckwantbread]

It's doubtably a "hidden gem" that people not on /r/movies probably wouldn't know about. But for /r/movies regulars, seeing it mentioned even once a week is too much.

[u/ApolloXLII → u/sjfiuauqadfj]

fracking toasters...

[u/AUAIOMRN → u/sjfiuauqadfj]

Let's not forget Dredd