Free Guy

Tom Mann Centuria

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Ah didn't know PG12 allowed it. Surprised ultra conservative Disney allowed it on their app all the same. Splash was PG but that didn't stop them giving Daryl Hannah a hairy arse!

TheIrishGrover

I thought it was..... OK. I mean there were parts that were practically remake of The (Much superior) Lego Movie (Specifically the "Overpriced coffee? Check" scene). But it just didn't gel together for me. Especially given the talent involved. I get it, it's not a gamer movie. And in fairness, it never set out to be - The nods to games were obvious (And in many ways, already dated). So I was not expecting (or wanting) obsessive commentary/observations on the minutiae of gaming history.

But, ironically, I thought it was just TOO bland. IT was fun, pretty family friendly (If I remember correctly. Some searing but that's about it) and that is fine. But, yeah, OK but forgettable.

Oh and DON'T loop it in the same conversation as Ready Player One. That was a Godawful film based on an even worse so-called book (Little more than poor, barely literate fan-fiction: "And then he.. he.. Oh, he got into his Deloreon and drove to that school from John Hughes movies and.... and then cyber-stalked the girl he likes for weeks"

Stone Deaf 4evr

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Its not that hes incapable of being a strong actor though, He was great in that one man show 'buried'.

Id say its just that its so easy for him to play this exaggerated version of his own personality, and its obviously paying the bills.

FunLover18

I really enjoyed, it could definitely be shorter but if I'm honest I didn't really feel the length. It really nailed a lot of the gaming "culture" and I enjoyed a lot of the background gags but as my friend who works in IT said, the tech side of it was all wrong and made no sense. It didn't bother me but there were times when he had his head in his hands.

pixelburp

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It wasn't so much the length as it was a common problem with these sort of blockbusters; the mid-point & second act, where the pacing just drops down a cliff-edge. The story got bogged down into the whole corporate espionage thing, the tedious "hero loses their powers" fakeout and so on. Similar concepts like The Lego Movie or Wreck'It Ralph never had that trouble IIRC.

The Phantom Pain

Caught this on Disney Plus and thought it was fine - and I say that as someone who plays video games a lot.

Firstly, it's too long - could have shaved off about 20 minutes. I will say, though, that it's very pretty. It's refreshing to see actual colour in a film (everything is too dark and grey these days), but it was like watching a studio checklist of Hollywood blockbuster tropes at times. The whole Truman Show/meta/pop culture references thing has been done to death; it's boring. All the streamer cameos made me cringe. In fact, that entire, "who is blue shirt guy?" montage was corny. You can have the in-game stuff be as trite as you like but when that crossed over into the real world with an international audience oohing and aahing at Guy's every move was toe curling.

It's a shame because I was interested in what was happening in the real world between Jodie Cormer and Stranger Things guy with good hair before it got melodramatic and they started behaving like the video game avatars they control.

And surely I can't be the only one tired of Ryan Reynolds' shtick now? Him trying to do the wide eyed, romantic leading man role always comes across as a vanity showcase. I remember one critic years ago saying that Reynolds is desperate for you to see him as "sexy" and it's so true. He's great as Deadpool because his brand of self-aware humour gels with the character but when he tries to be a dreamy leading man it feels "off". He's a TV actor at heart. Just doesn't have that Hollywood charm.

Oh, and too much music in the first half. Even the score music was annoying with Christophe Beck hamming it up even more than usual.

The only time I LOL'd was at the tea bagging moment and a certain cameo.

Jumanji: WTTJ did the whole thing a lot better IMO and I had low expectations for that film.

JP Liz V1

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