5 Reasons Why Mickey 17 Flopped At The Box Office - SlashFilm
5 Reasons Why Mickey 17 Flopped At The Box Office - SlashFilm
Bong Joon Ho's Mickey 17 disappointed at the box office during its opening weekend. Here are five reasons the sci-fi satire flopped.
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Sucks that the author of the article’s takeaway is basically “don’t do original non-franchise films.” I thought
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Mickey 17 captured the unique narration tone of Mickey7 but left something on the table when it came to 7s relationship with 8–they were supposed to have essentially the same personality. Also was annoyed with Pattinson’s voice. Whole thing suffered from lack of focus, adding the preacher angle in was unnecessary and not comical, and the plots were not well woven.
Also was annoyed with Pattinson’s voice.
I have the complete opposite take, I thought the voice he created for the character was great.
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The narration was hilarious, he sounded so stupid and resigned to his tragic comedy of a life and the way they paired that with a lot of visual gags made the first two thirds of the film so enjoyable for me. To me, where it really fell off was the final third which became a very slow, linear trudge towards a very predictable Hollywood happy ending. Every scene from the post-attempted assassination arrests onward dragged so badly.
Mickey wasn't a idiot though. Ironically it just became a typical Hollywood attack on the working man rather than depicting a lower class character that likes to read about history but doesn't have skills his society demands he have in order to respect his personhood.