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Mickey 17
2025 · Film · 137 min
Directed by Bong Joon Ho
Science FictionComedyAdventure
Unlikely hero Mickey Barnes finds himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living.
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I liked the idea behind the movie, but the movie itself wasn't very good. It was a bit like the movie Mickey 17, it didn't quite know what it wanted to be and tried to be a lot of things, but none of it really stuck and it ended up being a bit incoherent. The ending I thought was powerful though.
Recently watched Mickey 17 and it reminded me a bit of Idiocracy. Maybe someone is looking for related movies.
> Nearly every movie released by a major studio in the past year based on an original script or a little-known book has been a box-office disappointment. Before this weekend’s flops were Warner Bros. Discovery’s “Mickey 17” and “The Alto Knights,” Paramount’s “Novocaine,” Apple’s “Fly Me to the Moon,” Amazon’s “Red One,” and the independently financed “Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1” and “Megalopolis.”
These were all bad movies (Below 7 on IMDB), including "Drop". Most had a redeeming feature though.
The problem is multiverse that's bad still does OK, "Snow White" hopefully will make a loss but it's still pulled in $181 million so far.
2024 Box Office, hard to find an independent movie too low - https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/world/2024/
"Juror #2" is probably the worst as a solid movie for the genre and probably Clint Eastwood's last. It was mistreated by Warner Bros.
Wow, so much to rage about from the article.
I am a huge fan of color and go out of my way to buy bright colored cars, phones, etc. (Not like I had any viable options for my MacBook Pro though).
Resale value, it hides dirt well are some of the sadder excuses I hear for buying gray and "silver" cars (wouldn't be cool if they really were silver, not "metallic gray"). Meanwhile you spend your entire time owning the car and driving around like a brooding storm cloud.
Color grading might be the most evil thing to descend on film making. It's to the point of distraction now. Like it draws attention to itself. (Watching "Mickey 17" in a theater and a scene comes on that screams "color graded!" and then it's become all I can see. Kind of like the nausea-inducing, shaky "hand held camera" thing that was so predominate some decades ago. Good riddance to that.
Oh well, I guess all I can do is to keep voting with my shopping preferences.
I'd compare it like this:
Everyone can work out at home, you can fit a basic workout setup even in a New York apartment.
People still go to the gym, why?
It's about mindset. When you're working out at home, you're at home. There's laundry and the dishes and now you're doing pushups and see the dust bunnies under the sofa.
But when you're at the gym you literally can't do anything except work out.
The same goes for watching movies at home vs the cinema.
When I "Go to the movies", I go see those kind of movies that require me to focus. I'm mentally unable to start browsing HN on my phone while I'm at a location specifically for watching movies. Mickey 17 was the latest one I saw.
But when I watch at home, I can pause, browse on my phone. Go grab more snacks and let the movie run. It's for different kinds of movies - the kind Netflix uses. Their playbook literally says that people on screen have to say what they're doing so people on their phones or in the kitchen can keep up.
There've been some really good not-sequel-remake-franchise movies recently though, recently watching Companions and Mickey 17 in theatres myself.
Gift: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/movies/mickey-17-review.html?unlocked_article_code=1.104.GemZ.N2hb8XQfRdr1&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
To top it off, there is an upcoming movie with a lot of buzz called Mickey 17 about the dehumanization of a clone in a dystopic future where humans are replaceable. It's an insidious coincidence. I immediately thought 404 Media were talking about that movie before reading the article.
Mickey 7: People try to colonize an alien planet and the main character's job is to do all the very dangerous tasks. When he dies, his body is cloned and his memories are copied.
It looks like there is a movie in the works called "Mickey 17".