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  • 4 weeks later...
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On 1/24/2025 at 6:56 PM, YChang said:

Looks fun and I loved Parasite. 

Parasite is currently on Netflix if you'd like a rewatch; great movie.

Mickey 17 is set to release in the US on March 7th I believe, but it may be a slow roll out.

  • 3 weeks later...
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Saw it at Alamo this afternoon. First of, haven’t seen a movie in theater since Barbenheimer… and it was actually quite fun. Missed the movie going experience and after watching the trailer for F1, def want to catch it again in theater. As to Mickey 17, solid B-, I found it entertaining but not in the same ballpark as Parasite. Love the sci-fi setting and the dystopian future is way too real these days. However, found Mark Ruffalo’s performance a bit too over the top, and Toni Collette was way under used. 

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Agreed. I went in expecting it to be one kind of movie, but it went another direction. I felt like it went over-the-top to the point of cheesy.

I am getting a kick out the idea of some people leaving.

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8 minutes ago, tchookem said:

Agreed. I went in expecting it to be one kind of movie, but it went another direction. I felt like it went over-the-top to the point of cheesy.

I am getting a kick out the idea of some people leaving.

Wait are people really leaving because…

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Ruffalo was very over the top, but that was the point I think. Pattinson was stellar in his role though and his character went through a complete arc emotionally. He makes this worth watching. I never saw him in any of the Twilight movies. He’s been fun to watch in the movies I have seen him in. The guy can act.

Also the aliens were cool. Would’ve enjoyed seeing more of them.

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11 hours ago, Michael Knight said:

I thought it was not bad, it wasn't funny enough to be satire or serious enough to make a salient point. Mostly just a depressing world where everyone is shitty

So it's a documentary?

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16 hours ago, tchookem said:

Agreed. I went in expecting it to be one kind of movie, but it went another direction. I felt like it went over-the-top to the point of cheesy.

I am getting a kick out the idea of some people leaving.

 

16 hours ago, YChang said:

Wait are people really leaving because…

Saw it this weekend. It was fine, but RPatt's voicework is really top notch. I forget that his regular voice is a normal British guy.

Anyway, why would people be leaving? Trying to think of something hugely offensive and I'm coming up short...

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4 minutes ago, austingirl said:

 

Saw it this weekend. It was fine, but RPatt's voicework is really top notch. I forget that his regular voice is a normal British guy.

Anyway, why would people be leaving? Trying to think of something hugely offensive and I'm coming up short...

Agreed on Pattinson, I thought he did a really good job and was def a highlight. As to things people may find offensive, I'm imagining it's from Ruffalo's caricature.  

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It was a decent little sci-fi flick. Over two hours but probably could have used a bit more exploration of the themes. I kept feeling there were missing scenes or dialogue that would have solidified everything. One thought I had based on the comment "two time loser" about the Ruffalo character was that it was intended to be a veiled caricature that had to be altered in editing with the election outcome. But it was also a fairly generic slimy politician. Those teeth.

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7 hours ago, UpperWestside said:

Ruffalo was very over the top, but that was the point I think. Pattinson was stellar in his role though and his character went through a complete arc emotionally. He makes this worth watching. I never saw him in any of the Twilight movies. He’s been fun to watch in the movies I have seen him in. The guy can act.

Also the aliens were cool. Would’ve enjoyed seeing more of them.

Yeah, I thought Pattinson did a great job.  Not a great movie, but it was a fun movie.  

7 minutes ago, Herpa Derpa said:

Those teeth.

My 84 year old dad just got a full set of implants.  That's what his teeth look like.  It's very unnatural, for sure.

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3 hours ago, YChang said:

Agreed on Pattinson, I thought he did a really good job and was def a highlight. As to things people may find offensive, I'm imagining it's from Ruffalo's caricature.  

Ohhhh got it. Yeah, they were definitely hinting at that.

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I'd like my memories deleted and to be pushed into a molten lava trash pit so that I never have to think about that 2.5 hours ever again. 

 

Spoiler

Pattinson was a caricature of a simpleton that ultimately I felt no emotion for. He mostly bounces around from scene to scene in a daze. We learn nothing of his past except that 1) he owes a debt to a loan shark and 2) he pushed a red button? The single scene where he breaks down from memories of his mother dying could have headed somewhere, but is then immediately cut short by an ancillary character that we hardly see again. I thought the evil multiple could be interesting but ultimately he just becomes another dazed Pattinson zombie. The finale was like something from a 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episode. Tensely centered around a molten lava trash pit... that we've already seen 100 times in the film. 

Sweet Christ that was a beating.

 

Posted
2 hours ago, tchookem said:

What was the deal with the sauce?

I kinda interpreted it as someone so privileged that they’ve developed tastes/interests so far out of the norm and there’s no one to tell them that it’s disgusting. 

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I just got back and I had a good time with it.  Pattinson was great in playing both roles.  Kudos to him.  I thought Ruffalo was a tick over the line of too much.  I wanted more Toni Colette but that's just a general ethos of mine.  As always, Bong makes cool creatures.  

I get the issues people had with it, particularly around tone, but the positives outweighed the issues for me.

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32 minutes ago, Stringer said:

I wanted more Toni Colette but that's just a general ethos of mine.

She's too good of an actress to simply box her in with what she was provided. 

Posted (edited)

I laughed some and liked some parts of it but overall it was just ok, maybe a B-.  I liked some of what Ruffalo did but it was just too obvious of a mockery to be that interesting to me.  It ties into the idea that life has become too strange to satirize I suppose.  Pattinson was pretty good playing the two different versions.  Based on the trailer I thought there would be more comical deaths leading us up to #17, kind of like Tom Cruise in Edge of Tomorrow.  I think that might have been more interesting.  One big complaint is I thought almost everything shot in the interior of the ship was just too dark and washed out.  I get that was meant to impart how shitty life was for them but it just looked bad.

Oh, and I liked the homage to Hoth with Mickey's snowstorm attire.

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