Tweetienator
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Mickey 17 in short: a decent production value struggling against weak executed comedy. The tone of humor or elements of comedy did not work at all for me - I was just bored, and the introduction of our hero with all his redundant babble (to explain what should have been introduced by story-telling) is the best example. All the characters, including Mickey are caricatures and never gave me the impression this is a glimpse in a possible future. Anyway, I did not expect something dark like Blade Runner but Mickey 17 is another example or proof that comedy is no easy business. How to do it the right way? The Fifth Element is a fine example. What else? Mickey 17 is not totally crashing but something you could stream while you answer some emails or do something else, you won't miss much. Background noise, so to say. All in all a rather disappointing affair.
American Primeval is for sure one of the best TV-shows on Netflix lately - a dark and gritty tale in the West with a fine production and a solid working cast. The story got a similar (or same) tone like Mark. L. Smith's well known The Revenant (starring Leonardo DiCaprio) - so, if you liked that one this show is made for you, if not, don't bother. What you get is a lot of riding and running and killing too, the story itself is rather a simple one. Anyway, I dare to recommend the show to all lost souls who like movies and shows like The Terror, Taboo, The North Water, Bone Tomahawk, and The Revenant, of course. Decent stuff.
Like re-imagining Homer's Odyssey or Shakespeare's Hamlet, or maybe trying to invent something important like the wheel, the path to failure is easy - not everyone is a Shakespeare or a Homer, and very few people really change the course of history with the inventions of their mind. This Snow White lacks a lot - no soul, no vision, just implementing whims of zeitgeist, but for defense: the rewriting and retelling of old fairy tales are old business - the true original stories are many times far too dark and cruel for children, at least for the offspring of modern times. Many stories people know are softened versions of the original stories. So in this sense, most of Disney's and Hollywood's fairy tales are nowhere true to the core of the original material. Anyway, this new disneyfied version is many times cringe-worthy for the forced zeitgeist "improvements", and in my opinion lacks of soul, like so many productions these days. Pro: The production is solid, but best part is hot Gal Gadot as Queen - the mirror must be blind ;)