Movie Info
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, Mark Ruffalo, Holliday Grainger
Story: Sci-fi black comedy written and directed by Bong Joon Ho. Mickey 17 (2025) centers on the unlikely hero, Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson), who has found himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job to die, for a living.
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Top Mickey 17 Quotes
Mickey Barnes: I should have got snapped in half and died on the way down, instead of slowly turning into a meat popsicle.
Timo: What’s it feel like to die? I’m sure you’re used to it by now. Still! How many times is this? You’re Mickey sixteen?
Mickey Barnes: Seventeen. Jerk. Eighteen after this one.
Timo: [to Mickey] Well, it was nice knowing you, have a nice death. See you tomorrow.
Mickey Barnes: They just printed me out again every time I died. All my data is saved, and I just get a whole new body. They do all this, kind of, regular uploads of memories, and my personality traits, and re-implant it back in my brain. That’s some crazy technology, man. Let’s just say it’s advanced. It’s very advanced.
Mickey Barnes: The whole body printing and memory transplanting thing, to be honest, was so ridiculously ahead of its time, that it caused so many like ethical fights, and religious blah, blah, blah, that it was actually banned on Earth, and they only allow it now in outer space for Expendables. Like me.
Mickey Barnes: So, from the second we left the atmosphere, they made me work my a** off all the way to this planet. Gave me one mission after another.
Arkady: [to Mickey] So, a couple things I want go through on our cosmic radiation checklist first. How long until your skin starts to burn? Then, how long until you go blind? And of course, how long until you die? That’s the real nut we’re after.
Mickey Barnes: There was this one time in my fourth grade science class, I messed with a lab frog. I just figured this all must be my punishment.
Arkady: [referring to Mickey] He’s going to be dead in ten minutes. Just focus on getting all the blood samples. He’s going to bleed through his eyes, nose, mouth, ears, and rectum. Make sure to collect separate samples from every hole. Okay? And keep the memory upload going at the same time.
Mickey Barnes: Now, I wouldn’t be surprised if you were thinking at this point, “Well then, why did you do this to yourself?” Well, because I had a friend who told me that one day macarons would sell better than burgers. And because I trusted this s***ty friend, and I got an enormous loan from a wonderful gentleman to open a macaron store.
Mickey Barnes: Nothing was working out, and I got no family relying on me. So, I applied to the colony expedition, but there’s like a million other people with the same idea. Seems like the whole of this rotten planet was running away from something. I guess everybody’s got money problems.
Mickey Barnes: [referring to the application] I should have read through it. I mean, I didn’t have too much of a choice. I don’t have any bona fide certifications. I don’t really have any skills whatsoever.
Red Hair: [to Mickey] From now on, you need to get used to dying. This is your job.
Mickey Barnes: First day in the cafeteria, I think I might have started thinking, “What have I done?” a little.
Mickey Barnes: As soon as I step out the door, the ship was filled with mostly d**kheads.
Arkady: That’s it, Mickey. Deep breaths. Fill your lungs. Imagine there’s an unknown virus in the air and you’re sucking in every single microscopic particle floating around. All the viruses fill every alveoli.
Mickey Barnes: In the end, thanks to the lab rats, Mickey twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen, getting stabbed, gassed, dumped, and burned, we got the vaccine. My great gift to mankind.
Mickey Barnes: Even on my seventeenth go-around, I really hate dying. Still. Always. Every time.
Mickey Barnes: I’m still good meat. I’m perfectly good meat. I taste fine.
Mickey Barnes: Oh, God. I’m completely f***ed.
Mickey 18: What do you mean?
Mickey Barnes: We’re Multiples.
Mickey Barnes: If one of us has to go, it ain’t going to be me.
Mickey 18: You died plenty of times. What are you so scared of?
Mickey Barnes: Until now, I died and I was just born again, you know. It felt like it was me continuing on. But now, once I die, it’ll be over for me. It’ll be you living on. You get what I mean?
Mickey 18: I don’t like you. You’re such a little b**ch.
Mickey Barnes: But I’m you.
Mickey 18: I’m not you. I’m not going to live like you.
Ylfa: Sauce is the true litmus test of civilization.
Mickey Barnes: I always feel scared. It’s terrible, dying. I hate it. No matter how many times I go through it, it’s scary. Still. Always. Every time.
Nasha: [to Mickey 17 and 18] This is “Mild Mickey”. And this is “Habanero Mickey”.
Nasha: Eat half, work half. Alternating deaths, evens and odds. It’s a great system.
Nasha: Mickey is not some cookie you can split in half. Seventeen and eighteen are both Mickey. Both my Mickey.
Mickey Barnes: They were all pushing me and pulling me, and I mean, they all threw me back into the snow. Maybe I don’t look tasty enough or I smell off. I don’t know. Maybe if I was in some kind of sauce.
Timo: [to the Mickeys] Why don’t you guys do Rock, Paper, Scissors, okay? And then we’ll just shoot the loser, yeah?
Mickey Barnes: Nasha, she’s the only one who’s always been there for me. She’s always loved me. Every me. Even him. The me I don’t understand at all.
Nasha: Fighting a war requires a huge amount of energy and calories.
Kenneth Marshall: [to Mickey] Of course they didn’t eat you. You’re crap food. You’re recycled Spam baby. You get chewed up and s**t out over and over and over again.
Nasha: [to Marshall] Mickey was always just Mickey Barnes. Do you even understand what that means? They were just living their lives. Before you came in with your bulls**t! And you think you get to decide who lives and who dies.
Kenneth Marshall: Better be on your toes. One false move, and you’re man-burger.
Mickey Barnes: Our entire life’s a goddamn punishment.
Mickey 18: I’m afraid.
Kenneth Marshall: It means you’re human. You’re important.
Nasha: I’m just so f***ing happy I get to grow old with Mickey. It was really sucking getting old by myself.
Mickey Barnes: Ever since I was a kid, I’ve had scary dreams. This time I wasn’t scared. I just thought to myself, “What would eighteen do?”
Mickey Barnes: I am glad the printer’s gone, but a part of me can’t help feeling guilty that I didn’t let all the other Mickeys have a chance at life. But I have to stop feeling guilty. It’s okay for me to be happy.