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675. Frame Rate: The Game (Feat. David Bell)
🕑 Added 2024-01-15 14:00:16 +0000 UTC
Michael and Abe are joined by Gamefully Unemployed’s David Bell to discuss the 1997 thriller The Game, directed by David Fincher. Michael Douglas finds himself in an expensive and existential game of cat and mouse. The gang talks about how they’re terrible at escape rooms!
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Michael Swaim: https://twitter.com/SWAIM_CORP
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Comments
Steve Snyder
So much fun. I loved every minute of this conversation.
E l i j a h
i think a really good example of a modern way to do twists is what Jordan Peele does with his movies, especially with Nope. He’s using the marketing campaigns as a kind of first act, setting up a false premise before the film even starts so that the “twist ending” actually comes somewhere in the middle of the movie, and you spend the rest of the movie engaging with the reality of the film’s true premise (which with a traditional twist ending is an experience you often have only 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 the movie has ended). He’ll even have those typical buried “second viewing realizations” within the promotional material itself, so people will go back and look at movie posters and have that “Ooohhhhhhh” feeling.
Philip Reinhardt
Yessss! I'm excited for this one.
drunkencoyote
I remember that Today's Topic, Tom's performance was chilling as fuck
Ryan (Kanserus Bone Saw) Bowdish
I love this movie! I haven't seen it since i was like 15 so this was refreshing. Now i really want to see a blooper reel of all the different times Michael Douglas could have died or the game could have gone horribly wrong in some way.
Burrito
This was one of the funniest episodes any of y’all have ever done. Swaim’s line about “I’m having sex with this clown doll my brother got me” and Bell’s slavery-themed escape room story are all-time highlights. Like, I often chuckle at many of the post-Cracked shows, but I laughed out loud several times from this episode.
