Free Guy - Summer Blockbuster in Winter!

12/28/21 • 74 min

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2021 is over! Well, almost! Tune into this last episode of Cinematic Doctrine for 2021 with the last Patreon Pick of the year! Patreon Supporters didn't disappoint with their votes, and we're happy to discuss the Summer Blockbuster Free Guy!
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Melvin and Daniel's experience with video games, and how their gaming history impacted some of the comedy and atmosphere to Free Guy.
Free Guy has a decent amount of clever, video-game themed jokes that are clearly written by people who actually play video games.
It's great that Free Guy doesn't take itself too seriously while also flavoring in serious concepts of individuality, the value of the moment, experience, etc.
Unfortunately, a lot of people reacted to Free Guy in exactly the way Melvin hates; talking about a ridiculous, non-serious film as a means to discuss theology.
Talking about other alternate-world video game stories.
The romance subplot was really effective for Melvin.
...except Daniel notices that the ending of the romance subplot is literally the ending of the short-film Paper Man.
To Melvin's chagrin, there's some light biblical introspection: Does it matter if we're living in a fake world? Would that revelation change how we move or live through this world?
For Daniel: Does Guy have value if he's an AI? Or are how a human treats an AI more indicative of the human's character than the AI's value?
All of the Twitch culture stuff in the movie is really bad and really cringe.
Where does Free Guy rank among video game movies?