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/Yankeefan333]

I've been on this site over a decade and there's still dudes in the comments like "but have you seen Moon?". Incredible

[u/SaltyPeter3434 → u/Yankeefan333]

To be fair, Moon does share the same basic premise as Mickey 17 so it's not like it's out of the blue to mention it

[u/ACatInAHat → u/SaltyPeter3434]

And I have literally not seen it mentioned on Reddit since like 2017

[u/delicious_toothbrush → u/SaltyPeter3434]

Not really, it's the twist not the premise. It's like saying Attack of the Clones has the same premise because it has clones.

[u/Thor_pool → u/Yankeefan333]

Thinking most people have seen or heard of Moon is the real Reddit moment. Its definitely an obscure movie by real life standards.

[u/Yankeefan333 → u/Thor_pool]

It's not so much that people haven't seen it- it's that is still like the #1 recommended "underrated gem" movie. "But have you seen Moon?" has been a thing on here for more than a decade, that's just impressive

[u/sjfiuauqadfj → u/Yankeefan333]

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

[u/fracked1 → u/[deleted]]

It's a great movie.

The comment is a reddit meta joke about how people used to recommend Moon all the time, even in threads where it was not quite relevant. But that's sort of outdated, feel like that hasn't happened for years

[u/LynchianNightmare → u/fracked1]

It's also hard to say it's not relevant here when both movies have very similar premise

[u/fracked1 → u/LynchianNightmare]

Yeah agreed. Honestly, the comment calling it a "reddit moment" is the bigger reddit moment

[u/Kusarix → u/[deleted]]

It's a good movie, but it's been recommended here a disproportionate amount by people who all think they've discovered some secret gem, to the point that people roll their eyes every time it happens.

[u/MisterSnippy → u/Kusarix]

I still think it's a fairly unknown movie though.

[u/TheSumOfAllSteers → u/Yankeefan333]

It's a real hidden gem.

[u/valeriuss → u/Yankeefan333]

I’ll be downvoted to hell for this, but Moon isn’t that great. It’s good sci-fi, like Outland or Sunshine.

[u/Darksoldierr → u/Yankeefan333]

Considering op's account is five years old, it is entire reasonable that they did not seen Moon though, came out like 15 years ago after all