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I’m watching Free Guy
Oct. 23rd, 2021 09:49 pmHow do you have this much money for special effects? Every damn shot must cost so much. Sure it’s not realistic-looking, but it’s constant.
The sound design is a little too realistic. When the characters are yelling your ear off, it really sounds like they’re yelling your ear off, and when the characters are whispering to make sure they’re not heard, it really sounds like they’re whispering and you can barely hear them.
Grand Theft Auto Online parodies are a weirdly popular trope, and I’m pretty sure they existed before Grand Theft Auto Online was a thing. I guess someone took the idea of “multiplayer game where people do terrible things to each other” and boiled it down to its most basic form.
I’m sick of the whole “guy changes his whole life because he’s horny for a girl” thing, but there’s clearly more going on with Guy’s boredom, so I’ll forgive it.
Guy is so corruptible that he wraps back around to incorruptible. He’ll repeat the foulest things he’s heard, with no context for why they’re bad in the first place.
Antwon looks like someone who’d never heard of Mark Zuckerberg took the Mark Zuckerberg parody from Ducktales and made a humansona of him. He dresses like the main character of an Assassin’s Creed set in Santa Cruz. He talks like he’s mathematically predicted what you’ll say five seconds from now, and he’s already dismissed it as irrelevant. I love how much I hate him.
A lot of the humor here is based around either something that should be cool ending anticlimactically, or something that should be cool being viewed from a different perspective that shows how silly it is. It definitely works with Guy’s character--he can do cool things, but it’s not natural or effortless.
All in all, this was a good way to spend two hours and six dollars. Like Life Itself, it’s a singular experience, with no need for spinoffs or sequels or actionized reboots.
The sound design is a little too realistic. When the characters are yelling your ear off, it really sounds like they’re yelling your ear off, and when the characters are whispering to make sure they’re not heard, it really sounds like they’re whispering and you can barely hear them.
Grand Theft Auto Online parodies are a weirdly popular trope, and I’m pretty sure they existed before Grand Theft Auto Online was a thing. I guess someone took the idea of “multiplayer game where people do terrible things to each other” and boiled it down to its most basic form.
I’m sick of the whole “guy changes his whole life because he’s horny for a girl” thing, but there’s clearly more going on with Guy’s boredom, so I’ll forgive it.
Guy is so corruptible that he wraps back around to incorruptible. He’ll repeat the foulest things he’s heard, with no context for why they’re bad in the first place.
Antwon looks like someone who’d never heard of Mark Zuckerberg took the Mark Zuckerberg parody from Ducktales and made a humansona of him. He dresses like the main character of an Assassin’s Creed set in Santa Cruz. He talks like he’s mathematically predicted what you’ll say five seconds from now, and he’s already dismissed it as irrelevant. I love how much I hate him.
A lot of the humor here is based around either something that should be cool ending anticlimactically, or something that should be cool being viewed from a different perspective that shows how silly it is. It definitely works with Guy’s character--he can do cool things, but it’s not natural or effortless.
All in all, this was a good way to spend two hours and six dollars. Like Life Itself, it’s a singular experience, with no need for spinoffs or sequels or actionized reboots.
