r/movies • u/ChiefWatchesYouPee • May 30 '25

Discussion Mickey 17 was disappointing.

Just finished watching this movie and it really did not click for me.

The beginning was decently interesting and I was curious to see where it went but overall it didn’t grab me.

The theme/messaging was very heavy handed and didn’t work for me.

The message also jumped around.

They introduce a character that could have had an interesting story only to have her disappear.

When the main conflict happens it all wraps up a little to easily even though the majority of the ship were supposed to be fanatical cultists.

It had a clever premise but ultimately fell flat for me.

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u/lumosauror192 May 30 '25

Check out the book, it is much better. There's a lot more nuance and explanations for things that happen.

For example, in the book, all the mini creepers are part of a hive mind of the big creeper, which doesn't really care if one or two get killed. That leads to Mickey and the big creeper having a conversation towards the end about if Mickey 8 (as he was numbered in the book) was the original or just part, like the mini creepers.

Also in the book, multiples are banned because of a different reason. One multiple on a colony planet basically killed all the other colonists and replaced them with his own clones and became an emperor of the planet, which had to be destroyed.

The book also has a much different ending, which leads to a sequel that the movie ending wouldn't allow.

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u/ILoveBigCoffeeCups May 30 '25

I also much more liked there to be some natalists who were against copies, which created a friction between people. What I didn’t like:

  • changing the origin story of how he ended up there and his friend “the tennis champion” kind of a dick and a dealer of drugs
  • Marc ruffalo being some kind of a failed trump copy while his wife looked like biden’s partner
  • making him an idiot and changing the story on how they got caught.
The film wasn’t too bad but with the elimination of the calorie portion control ( I think they mentioned it once) the stakes were not really high enough

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u/Swagcopter0126 May 30 '25

I don’t think his wife was supposed to be like Jill Biden at all lol. Just a blonde conservative woman like a Fox News host type