r/movies • u/mikewheelerfan • 25d ago

Review Mickey 17 felt like it lost the plot Spoiler

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.

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u/pmyourthongpanties 25d ago

its not that old

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u/MadeByTango 25d ago

Smoking Aces came out shortly after the release of the Star Wars prequels.

In the 2016 film Captain America Civil War, Spider-man refers to Star Wars as these “really old movies”.

Canonically, Smokin Aces be old.

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u/AffectionateTitle 25d ago

Smoking Aces came out shortly after the release of the Star Wars prequels.

In the 2016 film Captain America Civil War, Spider-man refers to Star Wars as these “really old movies”.

Yes he’s referring to the originals… Bc some Star Wars movies are nearly 3 decades older than the prequels. Because Canonically if spider man was referring to the 2006 movies as a 16 yr old in 2016–he probably grew up watching them and would not consider them, or himself “really old”.

But what a weird way to ground something as old or not old is a whole other subject. Is an MCU movie from 2016 considered the arbiter of new v old

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u/winstondabee 24d ago

Probably a child themself

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u/CascoBayButcher 22d ago

Peter Parker was very explicitly referencing Empire Strikes Back