#something subversive that i liked is them flipping the 'protag gets the girl' bit

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okay, here's the lowdown, I'll try to keep it spoiler free

Free Guy is a movie starring Ryan Reynolds that takes place in an MMORPG. The game's like Saint's Row mixed with GTA and Fortnite. It follows Guy, an NPC who becomes sentient, and his exploration of his world post-awakening (that is going to come to an end soon because they're making a sequel).

It has a lot of stuff about being anti-corporate baked into it, but it kinda rings hollow given how much money they spent to get people like Pokimane, Ninja, and Jacksepticeye to record parts for them PLUS the loads of money they must've spent on the CGI animation.

It's very "how do you do fellow kids"- a lot of the stuff in the climax has references to things like Portal, Avengers (they had the dude who plays Cap show up actually), Gmod, and Fortnite. Not to mention flossing. A surprising amount of flossing.

It's very over the top at some points- like, supposedly Guy is SUCH a big deal that they're streaming his shenanigans to those NYC billboards on the sides of skyscrapers. But I feel like the sorta "satire" and critique angle falls flat when you take into consideration how hard they're trying to appeal to "gamers" and the younger generation. Also, it has the nonsense lingo of a script written by someone with only a very basic understanding of how video games work.

It also had a few Woke(tm) jokes about white privilege and gun violence that felt very, very forced. It's like they're trying to shove in another point to get the Liberal Youth to like it.

But it could have been WAAAAAY WAY WAY worse. It could have been SO MUCH WORSE. Reynolds is extremely charming (as always) as Guy, which helps balance a lot of the other nonsense out. It's a pretty fun watch. Just maybe not something you wanna pay too much attention to, yk?

That's just my opinion anyway; I'm not any full-time critic or whatever. I watch a movie once a year pretty much

who wants to hear my film review of "free guy"