Post by Brad Nelson on Jan 15, 2023 18:31:40 GMT -8
Free Guy
This is probably a movie for the 30-and-under crowd. The theme is video games. The star is the vanilla-coated Ryan Reynolds.
Reynolds plays a Truman-like (Jim Carrey) character who is an AI bot inside a video game, but doesn't know it. There are shades of Groundhog Day as well. Yes, you've sort of seen this movie before.
The plot is improbable. But the writing stays mostly within a sense of the fanciful. This isn't supposed to be realistic. It's a comedy/adventure. And within that confine, it pulls it off fairly well.
I was quite aware that jokes that might have the corner of my mouth barely turn up probably had the Cheetos-stained crowed rolling on the floor, laughing out loud. But there were a few jokes that I thought were particularly good, including the rushed-through-programming AI character "Dude" who jumps suddenly into the scene as the villain and says something like "You're dead meat, Guy. Catchphrase." You see, they didn't have the time to write the catchphrase and he just spouts a placeholder.
There's a love story here that hits most of the right (and predictable) notes. Despite the cacophony of the special effects, they do successfully weave a coherent story into this, even if it isn't quite Shakespeare.
There are a couple nods to the Woke which is annoying. But mostly this is just a romp of fun that those familiar with online games (and the people who play them) will appreciate, just at the series Silicon Valley (for the first season, anyway) was a funny look into entrepreneurial software companies and their zany employees and venture capitalists.
The other love story (you'll have to see this) is a complete and total fabrication of idiocy. Yeah, like this girl suddenly realizing this guy likes her is the impetus for her liking him all of a sudden. You'll have to see it. It's an amateurish plot point, but comes far enough at the end that it can be ignored. Like I said, this isn't Shakespeare.
And although the screen is filled with special effects, they are mostly subordinated to poking fun at the zillion-moving-pixels of online gaming for the caffeinated ADHD crowd. That is, the CGI has a purpose and mostly serves that purpose instead of just being yet more screen noise.
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This is probably a movie for the 30-and-under crowd. The theme is video games. The star is the vanilla-coated Ryan Reynolds.
Reynolds plays a Truman-like (Jim Carrey) character who is an AI bot inside a video game, but doesn't know it. There are shades of Groundhog Day as well. Yes, you've sort of seen this movie before.
The plot is improbable. But the writing stays mostly within a sense of the fanciful. This isn't supposed to be realistic. It's a comedy/adventure. And within that confine, it pulls it off fairly well.
I was quite aware that jokes that might have the corner of my mouth barely turn up probably had the Cheetos-stained crowed rolling on the floor, laughing out loud. But there were a few jokes that I thought were particularly good, including the rushed-through-programming AI character "Dude" who jumps suddenly into the scene as the villain and says something like "You're dead meat, Guy. Catchphrase." You see, they didn't have the time to write the catchphrase and he just spouts a placeholder.
There's a love story here that hits most of the right (and predictable) notes. Despite the cacophony of the special effects, they do successfully weave a coherent story into this, even if it isn't quite Shakespeare.
There are a couple nods to the Woke which is annoying. But mostly this is just a romp of fun that those familiar with online games (and the people who play them) will appreciate, just at the series Silicon Valley (for the first season, anyway) was a funny look into entrepreneurial software companies and their zany employees and venture capitalists.
The other love story (you'll have to see this) is a complete and total fabrication of idiocy. Yeah, like this girl suddenly realizing this guy likes her is the impetus for her liking him all of a sudden. You'll have to see it. It's an amateurish plot point, but comes far enough at the end that it can be ignored. Like I said, this isn't Shakespeare.
And although the screen is filled with special effects, they are mostly subordinated to poking fun at the zillion-moving-pixels of online gaming for the caffeinated ADHD crowd. That is, the CGI has a purpose and mostly serves that purpose instead of just being yet more screen noise.
So if you like quirky movies, give it a go. Just don't expect to spit Coke out of your nose. But you will find a thing or two funny enough.