Summary:

Mickey 17, known as an “expendable,” goes on a dangerous journey to colonize an ice planet.

Director: Bong Joon-ho

Writer: Bong Joon-ho

Cast:

  • Robert Pattinson as Mickey Barnes
  • Naomi Ackie as Nasha Barridge
  • Steven Yeun as Timo
  • Mark Ruffalo as Kenneth Marshall

Rotten Tomatoes: 80%

Metacritic: 74

VOD: Theaters

  • spacequetzal@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    21 hours ago

    I saw this movie yesterday with a couple of friends and it was a great watch!

    One of my friends is a violin player and the other a bassoon player-- we were all in agreement that the music was absolutely delightful.

    I am a big fan of “Moon” by Sam Rockwell and I was really excited to see more exploration into the theme of cloning as a gateway to human labor exploitation in space.

    Mickey-17 had many elements that reminded me of Snowpiercer, so it was more playful and campy whereas Moon was a lot more melancholic and just sad. I really enjoyed Snowpiercer, so I didn’t have a problem with that.

    My friends are younger than me, so I was very happy that they were picking up on the movie’s themes in a way that was entertaining and relatable to them. They definitely made comments about recognizing Elon Musk with his whole deal about sending people to Mars and how problematic it would be to enforce labor rights far away from Earth.

    That in itself is why Mickey-17 has my gratitude, as it is hard enough to explain to them why they have to set strong boundaries at work and protect their own health.

      • spacequetzal@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        Another aspect I really liked were the creepers.

        I thought they were a creative envisioning of a sentient alien species adapted to the harsh environment of Niflheim.

        I did think the translators were an unnecessary plot device since the motivations of the creepers did not really need any explaining-- they were behaving as you would expect a social creature to behave.

        We did have a laugh after the movie because someone in a group sitting near ours made a comment about how it was stupid that the creepers cared that much about two of their young dying.

        I was so dumbfounded someone would arrive at that conclusion so I asked what humans would or should do, and pointed out there’s tons of movies out there were two random kids get kidnapped or killed and there’s a whole-ass manhunt for them.

        The person, Tom, argued that was to be expected of humans but not animals. I rebutted that not only are humans animals, but there’s tons of species out there that will get completely outraged about their young being endangered even when they are not the direct parents, such as elephants, gorillas, whales, crows, monkeys, cows, etc.

        It led to a great conversation about the movie overall and I gotta say I really missed that type of discourse and analysis with strangers.

        Normally, I usually just dread finding out just how fucking insane a stranger really may be, given the current sociopolitical environment in the USA.