Mickey 17 (Bong Joon-ho, March 7, 2025) Movie • Page 6

I enjoyed this a lot. It has its flaws but easy to overlook. Pattinson is always fun.

 

Loved this a LOT. Most fun I’ve had with a sci-fi movie in years. Maybe since like District 9??

 

Overall I liked it but the friend I went with didn't and I can totally see why. Some fun ideas, but messy, feels like some key bits are missing/left out, in the Kai character story especially. Starts strongly and gets worse as it goes along.

 

Yep, really loved this. Ruffalo’s whole thing was weird at first but I got over it. Him and Collette singing at the dinner table got a big laugh out of me. Pattinson is so good. Def my favorite of Bong’s English films.

 

I wouldn’t necessarily be so bold as to assume Bong “forgot” about certain characters, even if I like the actors and would’ve been glad to see them utilized more. To me, the point of characters like Timo, Kai, and the recruiter only credited as “Red Hair”, is to show how many people in Mickey’s life position themselves as people who care about him, but in the end are revealed to be abusive and dismissive of his humanity and place in the world. The alluring woman with pleasantly aromatic hair doesn’t care that you’re whimpering at the gun she’s pressing to your head, because you signed the dotted line. The best friend that promised to grow wealthy with you finally got an inch ahead and is now leaving you to be eaten in an ice cave, prepared to saw you into 13 predetermined chunks at the mere thought that he might have to face consequences that are sure to find him regardless. A person that would happily send you to certain death unless you were willing to let them claim you as their own personal sex object. Everyone wants to know what dying feels like, but no one considers or cares that Mickey is just as afraid of it as they are. And then obviously this theme travels up the narrative to the carelessness of Kenneth/Ylfa with the Creepers. Devaluing whatever life they see below them, so invested in the propagation of the humankind that they’re willing to blindly send another, completely peaceful species to extinction.

Sorry for the word vomit, just been trying to work out my feelings on this. I think in exploring why this didn’t really work for me, I wound up liking it more lol. Not everything, but some of it is clicking a little better now

 

Kai only cared when it hurt her personally, her girlfriend dying and realizing Marshall didn't care if she was a lesbian he was gonna impregnate her anyway hit her like a ton of bricks

I wish they did delve more into how Dorothy could be part of the expendables program while having a heart and soul

 

Really liked this, this was a lot of fun. The capitalism criticisms isn’t as sharp as Boon’s other works but it still hits home, Robert was so damn good in this. I love that Ruffalo was like a classic ridiculous villain and I bet he had a lot of fun chewing the scenery playing that character. My only complaint is that the movie could’ve a little bit shorter but otherwise, I definitely recommend it.

 

I would be shocked if Marshall knew she was a lesbian. Unless he mentioned it when describing her genes and such. I could have missed that.

 

Of course not that's what makes it so funny that he's freaking out about Jen's death when she wouldn't be involved in his weird baby plan anyway