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tokin opposition posted:and frankly makes me wonder how Parasite actually had interesting things to say about class and yet this movie would have a globe emoji in its twitter bio. Bong Joon Ho Was writer and director of parasite, he adapted this story. He should have done a better job, but seems it didn’t work out as well as a thing he wrote himself.
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Maxwell Lord posted:I've read the book........ This post rules, thank you for the insight. WILD to me that the fascism angle was they added to the story wholesale, given how much it dominates the narrative from the get go. At no point does it not feel clunky, and I'm fascinated by a version of this that doesn't resort to such base Man Vs. Man action. tokin opposition posted:This movie feels like an SNL skit Disagree in that it opens as a very fun sci fi flick...... but overall the more it sits with me the more the rebuttal and conclusion feel as cheap as SNL jabs. Loud statements made to a agreeable audience with dead on arrival confidence that they'll have any actual impact.
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Maxwell Lord posted:
This i didn't get. It's cool movie magic to have montages of him been used, but thats not how it works in the book, where they don't like wasting him more than they hate having him, because printing him is a waste of kcals, especially if they lose his body. They are truly on their own, and from the moment they take off everything is finite. The only comedy in the book is Mickey being a wise rear end, which he's really good at.
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I'm so completely mind blown that Marshall wasn't in the book since it's such a huge part of this story. That's completely wild. And agreed that he plays it far too much like Trump. I agree that Kai feels like a total dropped thread and I thought the pacing was a bit poo poo - the end seemed to go on for ages and all the sudden "sauce" stuff was baffling. I still liked it though. What the hell was Tim Key doing in it playing Tim Key! I can't get my head around that at all, it was such a shock to see him then to have him in the pigeon costume, absolutely wild. And I felt a bit like it was riffing on Red Dwarf. The ship looked a load like it and mickey made a joke about being a meat popsicle, a line I've only ever heard in red dwarf. Probably coincidence but it still suddenly hit me near the start of the film. I enjoyed myself but I can't really say it's more than a 7/10 Taear fucked around with this message at 21:09 on Mar 22, 2025 |
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Saw this today, like bits of it but was overall not really a fan. Robert Pattinson was great and is starting to becoming one of my favorite modern actors. He’s likable but weird and does a lot with this character. But none of the other characters really stuck with me, which is normally a strength of Bong Joon Ho’s movies. I’m with a lot of other people; it feels like there was some kind of producer meddling or major edits done. Kai totally disappears for most of the movie, the resistance group kind of appears out of nowhere, and the dream sequence at the end felt extremely tacked on. I’m glad I saw it because it feels like it has a lot of good ideas straining to reach the top, but they’re stuck amongst a bunch of moments and characters that don’t really connect at all. Would love to hear the behind the scenes on this since I think we’ll eventually learn about the original vision for the movie being very, very different.
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There’s a ton of loose ends in this movie, but I really don’t understand why they called so much attention to Mickey-17 bleeding out when trapped in the ice cave, and then it just doesn’t matter at all.
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dpkg chopra posted:There’s a ton of loose ends in this movie, but I really don’t understand why they called so much attention to Mickey-17 bleeding out when trapped in the ice cave, and then it just doesn’t matter at all. He wasn't bleeding out, that was his thermal system's juice leaking/
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dpkg chopra posted:There’s a ton of loose ends in this movie, but I really don’t understand why they called so much attention to Mickey-17 bleeding out when trapped in the ice cave, and then it just doesn’t matter at all. There's a sequel book. But the movie is so different i can't imagine a potential sequel movie will be anything like it.
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Metis of the Chat Thread posted:He wasn't bleeding out, that was his thermal system's juice leaking/ Ah, ok, that makes more sense, thanks. It just looked like blood coming straight out of his femoral artery.
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That and the dream me think that maybe the whole "sauce" thing was more important to the story and not just Mrs Trump's inexplicable fiixation.
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Caught this today and enjoyed it as a silly sci fi romp that contains a big idea but doesn't exhaustively explore the big idea, rather just has a weird funny adventure with it. I just watched the Severance S2 finale so my appetite for deep philosophy was sated: a screwball comedy went down plenty smooth. Chalk me up for liking Mark Buffalo in this. Sure he's doing a slimy Trump-via-Mussolini spoof but, like, that's who runs the world now. I loved the way he was beholden to a cartel of Christian technocrats, singing church songs while experimenting on expendables. That's who runs the world. It barely felt like satire, that's just depicting a very socially successful type of guy right now who we'll be stuck with for another century. I can see thinking it's heavyhanded but subtlety is overrated in a goofy action movie about a worker whose literal career is to be killed by rich people. I can definitely feel the disjointedness of the plot but I didn't mind. It was a big weird bombastic cartoon that lost its balance a few times but it beats a dull perfunctory "just poo poo something out" movie handily.
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Stegosnaurlax posted:There's a sequel book. But the movie is so different i can't imagine a potential sequel movie will be anything like it. Based on the box office I don't think the studio will be clamoring for a sequel.
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That Dang Dad posted:Caught this today and enjoyed it as a silly sci fi romp that contains a big idea but doesn't exhaustively explore the big idea, rather just has a weird funny adventure with it. I just watched the Severance S2 finale so my appetite for deep philosophy was sated: a screwball comedy went down plenty smooth. I think this captures why I enjoyed it so much. It didn't explore anything in depth but I didn't really need it to. It threw out some interesting ideas that made me think for a second and then just went back to making me laugh for the most part.
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Glad to see roughly the same thoughts I've been mulling over after watching it. You get a sort of high for the first two thirds where the acting, sets, sci-fi setting, everything works just perfectly, but the wheels start to come off the train and it actually feels like they have no idea how to tie it up nicely? There's so much meat in the core concept that never gets used properly. You barely need the fascist showman or the space bugs or anything else. There are tons of questions about the mechanics of cloning that don't get addressed and don't count as nitpicks because they come up in the script constantly. And Kai! Make her more of a lesbian! Make her angrier! Make the fact she's an unavailable womb transgressive and a point of conflict! It's a fun, great looking movie, and it's made me curious about Snowpiercer and Parasite, but people walked out on the third act and I can't blame them.
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If you want something that explores the theming of 2 brains/one body there’s severance, where everything is thematically tied to exploring the concept, largely on an individual scale. I like and can buy this not exploring the clone thing on an individual level, but instead using it for satirical or commentary purposes. Which it only kinda does, and certainly not as sharp as it coulda been. Just about everything in this movie is contrived and falls flat, particularly the last third as others have said. Pattinsons performance is incredible though, and in a better movie, Mickey 17 would be the heart of it. They kinda waste his sincere dopeyness.
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Just got back from seeing this with my dad. I think we both had a good time. Marshall didn’t strictly read to me as a trump analogue. I saw a lot of televangelist in him, later he’s much more of a Mussolini figure. Makes a lot of sense considering South Korean history. I don’t think this has the bite that Snowpiercer or Parasite did. But I enjoyed my time, I thought the soundtrack and the cinematography is excellent. Glad I made the effort to see this in the theatre.
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The way people are sucking off this poo poo director is low-key racist.
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Monglo posted:The way people are sucking off this poo poo director is low-key racist. Look, my immediate inclination is to reject your opinion on anti-Asian racism out of hand given your username, but on the assumption I'm wrong: do you want to elaborate?
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Monglo posted:The way people are sucking off this poo poo director is low-key racist. im actually going to give him another best picture award for his genius social commentary to prove how not racist i am
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Monglo posted:The way people are sucking off this poo poo director is low-key racist. 
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Monglo posted:The way people are sucking off this poo poo director is low-key racist. 
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Monglo posted:The way people are sucking off this poo poo director is low-key racist. nah, there are a few directors with similar or even less explicable CD cults (e.g. Miller, Snyder). sure there might be a little tokenism behind praise for facile  social satires like Snowpiercer and Okja but you shouldn't discount the usual suspects of parochialism, sexism, and plain bad taste
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I don't mean to be real down on the guy. he's got style and always puts together a great cast. I love Memories of Murder. but I hate how patronising/didactic all his more recent films have been. WALL-E had more adult characters than Snowpiercer
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Monglo posted:The way people are sucking off this poo poo director is low-key racist. Pretty hosed up that South Korea made a South Korean director so respected and commercially successful in the first place, OP.
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Not giving this freak the honor of having even a word included in a post of mine, just wanted to nth that that's one of the alltime worst posts in CD, a field not lacking competition
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An Asian director? The only people that could like that are racists.
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Baron von Eevl posted:An Asian director? The only people that could like that are racists. it would be much more surprising for goons to be in the bag for Jane Campion or Céline Sciamma than for any man who directs effects-forward English-language blockbusters starring Batman and Captain America
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Cassian of Imola posted:it would be much more surprising for goons to be in the bag for Jane Campion or Céline Sciamma than for any man who directs effects-forward English-language blockbusters starring Batman and Captain America Can people like more than one director or do we have to choose one and make sure they are sufficiently out of the mainstream?
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Cassian of Imola posted:it would be much more surprising for goons to be in the bag for Jane Campion or Céline Sciamma than for any man who directs effects-forward English-language blockbusters starring Batman and Captain America
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Is it racist to think the movie was ok but not great?
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lonelylikezoidberg posted:Is it racist to think the movie was ok but not great? It's actually the most racist thing to think
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Who can I suck off to make me not be a racist?
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Samsung Isekai posted:Who can I suck off to make me not be a racist? me
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Alright, back to talking about the movie
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Officially released on VOD services Tuesday, bought it on Fandango At Home and will check it out soon Sidenote, sorry if it causes another derail: As happy as I am that there's an option to see this outside of theaters (I've been dealing with the flu and a sprained ankle back to back for 2 months, so this already came and went in my area during that time) I still wish theater-exclusive windows weren't so short these days. I think there's an acceptable midway point that's just right for releases being available to everyone while having a fair chance at finding an audience and providing financial support for the general theatrical experience, and it's neither the new days of "it's in theaters 2-3 weeks for sure, and then it's on VOD one week later" or the old days of "it's in theaters 3-5 months for sure, and then it's on physical media 10-12 months later". I would have preferred to have seen this in theaters, but it was only around here for 3 weeks and I had bad luck during that extremely brief window :/
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MacheteZombie posted:Alright, back to talking about the movie I wish we saw Robert Pattinson give himself a blowjob
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There are 134 fan fictions about Mickey 17 according to Archive of Our Own Archive. Titles include: Infinite Loop Ship of Theseus The Baby Making Protocol My one and only This is Wrong (Perfect) Self-love mazeltov "just the tip" Triplicity (Right or Wrong) How Do You Cheat on a Clone? we're no strangers to love 好的狗和不坏的狗/good dog and not bad dog and of course Kill but mostly gently caress
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CatstropheWaitress posted:This is Wrong Me reading the last couple pages of the thread
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