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Bong Joon ho brings us his newest film, about Mickey, who takes on the dangerous jobs (and dies multiple times) during a planetary colonization process. Here's my review of the dark comedy MICKEY 17!
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Bong Joon ho brings us his newest film, about Mickey, who takes on the dangerous jobs (and dies multiple times) during a planetary colonization process. Here's my review of the dark comedy MICKEY 17!
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01:00And now, Bong Joon-ho has a new film coming out this Friday, so let's talk about it.
01:09So Mickey 17 is the new film from the director of Parasite, Bong Joon-ho.
01:12And while Parasite wasn't his first film by any stretch of the imagination, it is the
01:16movie that won him an Oscar, also got him broader recognition and notoriety in American
01:20markets among cinephiles and casual filmgoers alike.
01:24So his new film, Mickey 17, stars Robert Pattinson, a group of people from Earth have
01:28decided to go colonize a new world.
01:30So Mickey signs up to be an expendable.
01:31What's an expendable?
01:32It's someone who lives and works to die.
01:34I mean, we can all relate.
01:35I feel like we can all say we feel like we've been there, which I'm very sure is the point.
01:40There's a dangerous job sent Mickey.
01:42He dies to just reprint a new Mickey.
01:44He's apparently died 16 times because the film follows Mickey 17.
01:48Then there's an oops in which they printed Mickey 18 while 17's still alive.
01:52So that's really the shtick in the film.
01:54These two Mickeys, both played by Robert Pattinson, they gotta keep that situation quiet because
01:58it's very illegal.
01:59Then there's a moral dilemma among the colonization bombastic political figures.
02:02You know, the oosh.
02:03And a thing to know about this movie, it is a dark comedy.
02:05If we were in the blockbuster days, I wouldn't be surprised to find this in the comedy section.
02:10And Robert Pattinson's great in it.
02:11I'm hard pressed to find a greater example of an actor who broke free of the stigma,
02:17the typecasts.
02:18He was the Twilight guy.
02:20Now he's the man.
02:21He's undeniably a great actor and it definitely comes across that he likes taking on roles
02:25that feel different.
02:26Just the character Mickey doesn't feel like anything else I've seen him do.
02:31Not only that, he gets to play two Mickeys who do feel different from each other.
02:35Another thing that speaks to Pattinson's talent is a sci-fi dark comedy in which he has to
02:39bounce off of himself.
02:42He's not there though.
02:43Or maybe he is.
02:44Maybe there's a Robert too.
02:45He, the film, Bong Joon-ho, they're so good at selling that you forget that this is the
02:50same actor playing two different roles.
02:52He's not in the room with himself.
02:53It's only when you take a minute to actually process that do you notice it.
02:57It's like CGI.
02:58The best CGI is the CGI you don't notice.
03:00The best dual roles are the ones you forget are dual roles.
03:04And though I might have blinked and missed it, story-wise, I didn't catch why Mickey
03:0818 feels so different.
03:10We first meet Mickey, he seems and feels like Mickey 17 does.
03:13So that's 16 Mickeys you can assess were probably similar.
03:17And 18's just very different.
03:19Anyhow.
03:20Just for the contrast between the two, you know, Mickey 18 is a much harder person.
03:24Mickey 17 is the one the audience will feel protective of.
03:28And I gotta give props to the film's attention to detail.
03:31The aesthetic.
03:32The immersion.
03:33Bong Joon-ho is great at that.
03:34His movies feel lived in.
03:36They feel real.
03:37Which is important when doing sci-fi.
03:39You don't necessarily want a movie like this to feel like, yeah, but that's just elseworld
03:42shit.
03:43Not relatable to this world in the slightest.
03:44Notably important when telling a story that's a cautionary tale about human nature.
03:49I was just taken in by and appreciated the contrast between the feeling of the grit and
03:52reality of the sci-fi world.
03:54Oh, and it's also dark comedy.
03:56Funny enough, Mickey 17's actually an adaptation of a book called Mickey 7.
04:00So I guess there were 10 other Mickeys out there who died.
04:02But you wouldn't really know it because the setup of this movie has a lot of voiceover
04:07montaging.
04:08In that setup montage, I don't feel like I saw him die 16 times.
04:11You probably could have kept it Mickey 7.
04:15So why wasn't it?
04:16I don't know.
04:17Maybe the movie feels bigger or more important to have him die 10 more times.
04:19Is it one of those things where the movie was going to be longer and we were going to
04:23get more time with some of the previous Mickeys?
04:25Then it was cut down to a much shorter runtime of two hours, 17 minutes.
04:30Was that why it was delayed a year?
04:31I don't know.
04:32But if you watch the trailer, a lot of that montage voiceover stuff that you see when
04:35he's talking about what he is, what he does, how he dies, is really executed in the film
04:40very similar to the trailer.
04:41It's not like the trailer was doing a speed run.
04:43As much as I do appreciate my shorter cinematic experiences, I actually could have gone for
04:47less voiceover, less montaging in the name of filling in the audience, and more time
04:52actually experiencing the world during the setup.
04:55Though the comedy for the most part doesn't feel awkward and out of place, I do feel like
04:59a couple of the characters, Mark Ruffalo and Tony Collette's characters, were over the
05:03top.
05:04I get it.
05:05For the sake of allegory and Mark Ruffalo being the Donald Trump character, it's supposed
05:08to be what it is.
05:09They came across as cartoons, like they were Disney animated villains or something.
05:12The epic team up between Gaston's dad and Cruella de Vil were in a Bong Joon-Ho film.
05:18Get what the intent was, but for me it just clashed.
05:20Felt like Mark Ruffalo was a Gaston SNL and he was the one doing the Donald Trump bit
05:25for the week.
05:26Who has big fake teeth and looks like a walking purge mask.
05:29To be fair, Mark Ruffalo does kind of sound like Donald Trump naturally, if he took a
05:32lot of ambient.
05:33There's a thing about me Cap, I'm always angry.
05:38Not just that.
05:40I do feel like there is less to unpack with Mickey 17 than there is in, say, Parasite.
05:47Not that there is an allegory or a message in here.
05:50Bong Joon-Ho does as Bong Joon-Ho does and that's what he does.
05:54But he does do it in a way that's more organically interesting and entertaining than most others
05:58who try.
05:59The message is, though being there, they are apparent.
06:02They're right there in front of you.
06:03There's not much to walk out of the theater and be like, okay, so what did he mean by
06:07this?
06:08And then a month from now, someone's going to break down something I totally missed.
06:11I concede to that being a possibility.
06:13My point being, if you really enjoyed unpacking Parasite, there's not as much to unpack here.
06:19Any message or allegory was far more obvious this time around.
06:21More on the nose.
06:22Look, in the end, I enjoyed Mickey 17.
06:25It's always tough making the next film after a film hits like Parasite, the way it hit.
06:30But Bong Joon-Ho still shows his talent in crafting an interesting world.
06:33It's a dark comedy, which I didn't expect, well, not until I saw the trailer and then
06:37I expected it.
06:38But before that, he's a director working to give people unique cinematic experiences,
06:43unique feeling movies, which is priceless in a business that's basically churn out the
06:47same crap we churned out before and call it something different.
06:50I had myself a good time in Mickey 17.
06:52No alcohol required.
06:53All right, so Mickey 17, are you looking forward to it?
06:55Have you seen it?
06:56What did you think about it?
06:57Or have you seen all the Bong Joon-Ho movies?
06:59What are your rankings?
07:00How do you rank them?
07:01Whatever you think, comment below.
07:02Let me know.
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07:07Thanks for watching.
07:08I'll see you next time.
07:09Bye-bye.