Mickey 17 | Official Trailer 2

[jian]

Saw it yesterday, really enjoyed it. It’s more Okja than Parasite, as it were, but it’s still very good and on point.

I felt there were some Korean cultural beats that didn’t translate exactly, but still worked fine - the way that Marshall is a brutal caveman of a politician and Mrs Marshall is obsessed with refinement and cultural hierarchy, for instance, which works well for Western viewers but is also quite Korean, it feels like a solid reference to President Yoon (who just got impeached).

 

[Tonguez]

Saw it yesterday, really enjoyed it. It’s more Okja than Parasite, as it were, but it’s still very good and on point.

I felt there were some Korean cultural beats that didn’t translate exactly, but still worked fine - the way that Marshall is a brutal caveman of a politician and Mrs Marshall is obsessed with refinement and cultural hierarchy, for instance, which works well for Western viewers but it also quite Korean, it feels like a solid reference to President Yoon (who just got impeached).

It might just be the news zeitgeist but I was reminded of a particularly prominent western president - nuff said - I didnt quite understand the sauces thing, except as a very peculiar eccentricity.

Overall it was an entertaining enough piece of satire (though I did feel sorry for Kai)

 

[jian]

It might just be the news zeitgeist but I was reminded of a particularly prominent western president - nuff said - I didnt quite understand the sauces thing, except as a very peculiar eccentricity.

Overall it was an entertaining enough piece of satire (though I did feel sorry for Kai)

There’s a few ways of looking at the sauces thing. Korean cooking is very concerned with the master sauces (ganjang, daenjang, and gochujang - soy, bean, spicy) and it’s a mark of someone who’s pretentious about refinement in traditional Korean culture (especially yangban types - people who think they’re the inheritors of medieval nobility) to talk at length about them.

Another way of looking at it is that she’s only concerned with the superficial taste or appearance of things rather than their substance or reality, such as whether the meat is toxic.

 

[jian]

It might just be the news zeitgeist but I was reminded of a particularly prominent western president - nuff said - I didnt quite understand the sauces thing, except as a very peculiar eccentricity.

Overall it was an entertaining enough piece of satire (though I did feel sorry for Kai)

I think the film was mostly made 2022-3 so missed out on being as relevant as it could be to current events (for instance Yoon’s impeachment, which only happened last year). So THAT scene with the shooting is sadly just a coincidence.

I think Kai’s going to be OK - I thought the actress did a fantastic job with the carefully suppressed revulsion and hatred in the dinner party scene. Her line of “am I just a uterus to you?” seems to echo her most famous part to date.

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[Stalker0]

Saw it, to me it was very decidedly "meh".

The premise is interesting, and they have an interesting message to tell, but I think the message itself overshadows everything else. they are so focused on the satire that they forget to tell a good story and the characters are pretty one note. It is pretty engaging in some moments, but then its "I'm checking my watch to see how long its been" levels of boring at other.

 

[Deset Gled]

The parts of the movie about the multiple Mickeys was a solid sci-fi movie. Good acting, interesting writing. I liked it.

The part the movie shifted into a second plot about dystopian leadership was interesting, but felt like it wanted to be it's own movie. It wasn't bad, per se, but definitely felted rushed, and the connections between lots of the characters were much more superficial. Lots of fast jumping to plot points that happen because they have to happen for the sake of happening, fast edits between key scenes with virtually no transition, etc. The story needed more time for the more complex lines to be filled in, and lots of those plots points aren't dependent on the main charactes that we were introduced to in the first act.

I can imagine a directors cut where Mickey 17 is turned into two separate but connected movies. One starring Pattinson, one starting Ruffalo.

 

[Older Beholder]

I can imagine a directors cut where Mickey 17 is turned into two separate but connected movies. One starring Pattinson, one starting Ruffalo.

There was a TV series made out of Snowpiercer and I think they made a pilot for a TV series based on Parasite at some point.

I did think Mickey 17 might have worked better as a series. Although, as much as I enjoyed the movie, it might not have worked without Pattinson in the lead.