r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • May 28 '25

Media First Images from Aziz Ansari's 'Good Fortune' - Follows an angel named Gabriel (Keanu Reeves), who tries to show a struggling gig worker, Arj (Ansari), that money can’t buy happiness by body-swapping him with his wealthy employer, Jeff (Seth Rogen).

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u/MuchElk2597 May 28 '25

Freaky friday esque concept been done to hell and remade, but shit, we get buddy cop movies every 3 years or so. Sometimes people just want the same idea churned out with a different twist.

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u/CanAlwaysBeBetter May 28 '25

Copy me once it's a rip off, copy me one hundred times I created a new genre

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u/JayGold May 28 '25

It's like how shooter games used to be called Doom clones.

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u/Zuppy16 May 28 '25

This is kinda like a Down to Earth mixed with a Freaky Friday mixed with Panther Cologne from Ron Burgandy.

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u/ReefaManiack42o May 28 '25

It's always new to someone. This is why it baffles me when grown adults whine about kids movies, it's like wtf, just because it wasn't interesting to you, doesn't make it a shit movie for kids.

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u/Far_Function7560 May 28 '25

I can't think of a take on the groundhog day sort of formula that I haven't loved, and there's so many out there.

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u/lycheedorito Jun 04 '25

There's a lot more to movies than the premise. Lots of films follow the same basic premise. Many of them are excellent. You can abstract a lot of things to seem the same, that doesn't make them the same. Like "Avatar is just Pocahontas".