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The Game - Patreon Version (Patreon)

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No Sync Required Version: https://cinebingers.ca/g30ZHlalm6 - For Patreon tier "Bingers on The Wall" or higher.

Movie runtime: 2:08:48

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JediLounger

Spy Game (2001) is awesome. Put it on the list. The Game is my favorite Fincher film to introduce people to his work because of the lack of graphic violence. I suspect it will be high on your favorite lists at the end.

DeAndrew Greene

Put Panic Room on the list. Underrated Fincher film.

Shonnicus

Partner movie: Game Night 2018. Your favorite person from Breaking Bad is in it.

djKENTO

favorite fact about this movie… the man who plays his father in the opening scenes is Charles Martinet… aka… THE VOICE OF MARIO (up until the most recent game anyway).

beefjerkywizard

Yep. Spy Game should definitely be on the list. So underrated.

beefjerkywizard

Also please add Girl with the dragon tattoo.

Mitchell Bowker

Wait.... is THIS the game? Is it still happening?!?

Tim T—

The greatest thing about the movie is that serial predictor George couldn’t predict anything anymore.

E. D.
>>141000188

Yes, CRS made George forget Fight Club in his Fincher-movie-ranking. Don´t know what they had to do to accomplish that.

E. D.

I love the score, cinematography, acting, production design, the atmosphere, the adventure etc. so that´s why I just accept that they knew where he would jump and they needed a ton of actors to pull that off, I like the twist none the less. ps: G&S said if he hadn´t jumped or rather someone else pushed him he wouldn´t have learnt the "lesson", or rather not to be an asshole, but I disagree, George was right beforehand when he said it was like a rebirth when Van Orton woke up from the coffin AND he appologized to his ex-wife, so at that point he was already changed in the right direction, then him losing his brother when he "shot" him AND attempting suicide AND "waking up" again made him appreciate life more.

Opti_Frog

I'm with George. I can stretch my suspension of disbelief to breaking point for most of the movie, but not for the seaside ending.

Ste Rawlings

I was pretty annoyed when Austin Butler was cast as Feyd in Dune part 2 but he ended up being phenomenal.

sarCC

I Became A Cinebitch To Watch Movies & TV Along With Simone & George And All I Got Was This Lousy Comment

Logan Kerlee

Big time enjoyed watching this with you both! I had no idea what was going on either. :) Definitely enjoyed my first watch with you both. :) Great movie with loads of messed up twists and turns and plenty of creepy ass moments.

pedantech

Can we get "I Am Sam" (2001) and "Falling Down" (1993) added to polls?

Alexrandom

I like this film ! This is kind of a reverse conspiracy movie. Generally the movie starts and the life of the protagonist seems normal, he witnesses weird things and in the end the conspiracy is revealed. In this one the movie tells you at the start everything is fake , you start to believe it's real but then it's revealed it was indeed fake and the movie never lied to you. That's fun to me ! Even though the film isn't very probable (and that's being nice )

Michael Green

I loved watching this with you two, and found it deeply hilarious that a song with the lyrics "when logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead" is playing in the background while you struggle with the logic of the final scenes.

Ballsac McGee

Universal is the distribution company. Polygram is the poduction company. Polygram produced the film and Universal distributed it. That's why there are so many random companies and logos that you are not familiar with. Sometimes independent production companies produce films and then they get picked up for distribution by one of the major (or smaller) distributors, your warner brothers, universals, paramounts,etc. There are also production companies that have longstanding deals with distributors like Pixar for example, were initially not owned by Disney. they produced their films independently and Disney would distribute their films. They eventually got bought out by Disney. Similar story with Marvel Studios. They produced their films independently before being bought by Disney. Polygram in this case is owned by Unviversal but Universal owns a bunch of these production companies and has deals with a bunch of other production companies whose logos you may or may not recognize. Blumhouse for example isn't owned by Universal. They independently produce movies and tv shows. But, because they have a longstanding relationship with Universal, all their movies and shows are distributed by Universal or I should say NBCUniversal which is their parent company.

pedantech

George, how can you rank Fincher films without including Fight Club?

Odd Thomas

Definitely need to watch Fincher's Alien 3, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2011) and Panic Room

REDR58
>>141004680

I thought he was the best thing about the movie. I was pretty disappointed with part two unfortunately, as compared to part one.

VinnyAhhh

Please please please you should consider the movie "Game Night" which is both similar and couldn't be more different than this movie — and it was directed by the folks who did the recent D&D movie who seem to have an ability in making movies that are way better than they have any right to be.

REDR58

Speaking of Sean Penn, watch “At Close Range” (1986) with Sean Penn and Christopher Walken. It’s a fantastic movie but not a pleasant one.

TGrimace

You're over-estimating the number of people that were in on it. People like his ex-wife and lawyer were just invited to the party. You missed the line where the lawyer says he doesn't know what's going on, but the champagne is excellent.

Patrick

For another great Michael Douglas movie, you should really watch the original "Wall Street". It's guaranteed to raise George's blood pressure haha

W T

Fincher barely misses for me. Even contrived nonsense (which this movie obviously is, at its heart) just works so, so much. I like the "Whiplashy" end where you aren't shown how he joins her at the airport - but all his meeting rejections prior to that make it very obvious that he was totally in. And I guess it really can throw you for a loop, but honestly... I have no recollection of my first time watching. I just know very specific key plot points and watching it unfold is all the fun. Kind of reminiscent of Lucky Number Slevin, although oh my God, I like Slevin even more. In case you need both killer case and killer dialogue... that's an underappreciated movie if I've ever watched one.

Richard Flores

I agree with George. I prefer Seven out of the Fincher movies I've seen. It's just because of how well that movie was made, as a whole. Like this one time, I put in the DVD, and I wanted to have the sound design commentary on. I expected it to just be background noise as I cleaned the apartment, but I ended up on the sofa glued to the screen, just fascinated. The people who made it had such a passion for making it as good as they could. Seven is a movie I can (and do) watch over and over again, and one I find I still love deeply each time. Because it has earned it. Because the people that made it put their heart and soul into HOW it was made. But the thing about The Game, this is one I wish I could see again for the first time. One more actual first time. Loved my first-time watch. All the theories, all the conspiracies, all the twists... And I have re-watched it myself, but I have found much more satisfaction when I drag others into the room, shove them onto a recliner, and put this movie on. I don't so much watch the movie, I watch them watch the movie. And this was before reactors, this was back in '02. So I'm watching George and Simone watch Nicholas confront Fischer at the zoo and I'm seeing how much they are relishing this moment... and I know what happens after CRS cuts through that rooftop door... The Game is one good strong reason why we have reactors. Sometimes we can only see it for the first time again through someone else's eyes.

Patrick

Spoiler - Michael Douglas was Tyler Durden the whole time!

Odd Thomas

Jodie Foster obviously didn't hold a grudge as she worked with Fincher on Panic Room a few years later. The only 'misses' Fincher has done imo are Benjamin Button (romance is not his forte) and The Killer (utterly shallow). That said, even those aren't *bad* bad, just weaker entries.

Patrick
>>141003086

Same. It was a really enjoyable movie up until that point. I still liked it though, but it was just too unbelievable.

hobocamp
>>141018764

Yep. They also pan over the party invitation that says "somewhere between 8:17 and 8:30 in the evening." I think we're to assume Conrad was the only person in his life that was really in on it, and everyone else was very confused why this guy decided to enter his party that way.

BigGuy209

other great David Fincher movies y’all need to check out. Panic Room (2002), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), The Killer (2023), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

FranciscoGios

Guys the only reason actors/actresses would sue the Production Company is if their contract says they can’t be fired for a specific reason. Every Actor’s contract is different from every Production Company. This is why they have agents to tell them what’s in it for them if they work for that company.

Hi I'm George Junior, but my friends call me Geo-Ju

🖤All I can say to the thing about the thing that George said took him out of it because of all that would have had to go into it to plan it just right... I'll put a throwaway line in the movie that explains this (I think it does anyway). IDK why anyone who hasn't seen this movie would be reading the comments but I'll put it down a ways, and be somewhat vague just to avoid spoilers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . For vagness I won't say which actor I'm referring too, but I'll hint at who he is. There was a guy in this movie who was in another movie you two have seen. Said movie is a movie George claimed he can link to any movie and did so watching The Game. If you still don't know which character I'm referring to, his character was seen in a commercial in this movie. Ok, so that guy who was both in this movie and the "linkable movie". His character told Michael Douglas's character "I'm glad you (says thing he did) because if you didn't I would have had to ******** myself" so this tells me the way in which that event happened didn't QUITE go as planned and we are just to sort of appreciate what a happy accident it was that that part didn't go as planned, but still went as planned. That was my take anyway, maybe when he told Michael Douglas's character that he was making a joke, but I'd like to think that's what happened because if not, I kind of agree with you George.

AniLunchbox

You mention Timberlake's acting. Now I'd be very interested in a Southland Tales (2006)from the director of Donnie Darko reaction. Spy Game (2001) would be a great watch too. Robert Redford as old spy, Brad Pitt as the young spy, and directed by the better Scott brother. (And I would hate myself if I didn't also suggest Sneakers (1992) after talking about Redford and spies. Just look at the cast and you'll want to add it to a list).

Farbod

Both Leonardo DiCaprio and Cameron Diaz in Gangs of New York. They were abysmal. Re Jake in Prince of Persia. Being Persian myself, he was terrific, not only could he pass for being Persian, but hes a phenomenal actor.

simon brouillard

For a movie with all the actors 🙂 check out JFK

Chase Schleich

Turkey pepperoni Simone?..... TURKEY PEPPERONI?!! Why don't you just go have some turkey bacon too while you're at it. Go full psycho. They shouldn't even be able to call turkey pepperoni, pepperoni. It's an imposter and doesn't deserve the name pepperoni. The same goes for turkey bacon. Actually, it goes double for turkey bacon. Back when I lived at home as a kid my mom would only buy turkey bacon so I was tortured for years with fake imposter bacon. Turkey pepperoni should be called Turkey Rounds and turkey bacon should be called Turkey Breakfast Strips.

REDR58

The convenience of the airbag being in just the right spot is the least implausible thing in this movie. If the story had ended with the jump being “real” and his dying, the movie would have been perfect, aside from the DOWNER ending. That said, I enjoyed the movie quite a bit overall.

3dbadboy1

Notice that the music was done by LotR & Silence of the Lambs fare Howard Shore.

BangDroid

Heck yeah! This was one of my fav films as a teen, we had it on VHS, I watched it all the time. Such a treat to get you guys reaction

Sean Barbante

I guess I'm the opposite of most for Fincher, as my favorite is Zodiac and I actually put Fight Club and Se7en on the lower side of preference.

REDR58

Aside from the difficulty of getting all the “background” and secondary character/actors together who need to interact with Van Orton to steer him on the right path, not to mention all of the arrangement of hotels and vehicles and all the little stuff to pull off this fantastically elaborate undertaking, there are 2 massive issues that need to be dealt with in a way that must never go wrong: the fall/airbag and the guns. I know I said earlier that the airbag was the least of my concerns, but the thing is, Van Orton jumps with the intent to die. He cannot see the airbag and has absolutely no idea it’s there. He’s “shot” his brother and that just capped off a whole series of crazy events that have basically ended his whole world. So the thing with the airbag is not that it’s there or how they can be sure he will jump from the right spot, it is rather how can anyone working for Consumer Recreation Services be completely sure that Van Orton is going land on his back when he hits the airbag? If he happens to dive head first, he’s a dead man. Stunt personnel are trained how to land on airbags and head first is not the way to go. The jumper *must* land on his or her back. Anything else risks serious injury or death. How they can possibly guarantee that stretches my imagination way too far. As to the guns, first of all, when Van Orton grabs the gun off of the “private investigator” and then shoots the car, I don’t think that was a blank-firing gun. So they have the possibility and then reality of Van Orton acquiring a gun loaded with live rounds, which means it’s possible he can accidentally or intentionally kill a CRS employee or even an innocent bystander. Speaking of blanks, firing automatic weapons loaded with blank rounds apparently directly into a large crowd (as seen in the cafeteria room/floor is insane. Just because a gun fires a blank, it doesn’t mean it’s not potentially deadly. Bruce Lee’s son Brandon died after being struck from a blank-firing gun by fellow actor Michael Massee during filming of the movie “The Crow.” One of the dummy bullets that were improperly left in the revolver for filming purposes was shot out of the weapon, propelled by the blank round’s charge and the dummy bullet hit Lee. So the CRS shooters spraying the room with blank firing guns could easily have gone very badly if any debris managed to leave the gun barrels.

mky

George, in case no one has mentioned this already, Hank Azaria based the voice of Chief Wiggum on an impression of Mel Blanc doing an impression of Edward G. Robinson. In fact, in a Simpsons episode where Chief Wiggum is arresting Ned Flanders, he says, "Where's your messiah now, Flanders?"...a direct reference to Edward G. Robinson's character in "The Ten Commandments". Fun stuff.

Angela D. Mitchell

WARNING: SUICIDE ATTEMPTS/IDEATION DISCUSSION. Thank you for reacting to this! It's one of my favorite movies. For what it's worth, I don't think the Game was a cheap breach of trust or just some massive prank on Nicholas. It's the opposite. It's much deeper than that. Conrad's gift to his brother is one of life, love, appreciation, awareness, and reawakening. Conrad saves his brother's life by endangering it with The Game. When the movie starts, on the same birthday for Nicholas as when his own father killed himself, we see ourselves that Nicholas is obsessed with his father's suicide, and that it plays out over and over again his head. The movie quickly establishes that he has begun to fixate on it, while also showing us that he has disconnected from almost all of the relationships in his life. But we do see that out of everyone, he still takes his ex-wife's call, and he drops everything to have lunch with his rebellious little brother -- both of whom are visibly very worried about him. (And as added texture, Conrad has spent years angry and addicted but whatever his Game was, he himself is now clean and sober, happy, and filled with hope. I think that's an important detail -- he knows it works. I read an article a few years ago that has haunted me ever since (in a good way), that was about the attempted suicides who had jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge -- and survived. There are evidently always a few every year. And in every single case -- EVERY SINGLE CASE -- the first thought that crossed each person's mind as they let go of that rail and began to fall was, "Oh my God I don't want to do this. I want to live." This is why Conrad's gift is so incredible and the Game is so profound for Nicholas. Everything in Nicholas's gift is built to propel him to this very realization -- to let him live out this mistaken idea he has that he wants to kill himself -- and SURVIVE IT. And that's what Conrad does. And in doing so, he reawakens Nicholas's courage and kindness. He reminds him of what it was like to be young and hungry and alive and awake. The people who love him show him how much he depends on his brother and his ex-wife and the few people he trusts. And then he jumps and he realizes he wants to live. And then he is hugged by his brother... and then celebrated by every single person in his life, and I just love that so much. Nicholas ends the film free and awake and able to really live -- maybe for the first time. I think this is such a profound film, and the warmest of Fincher's movies by far. TRIVIA: I do think it was easy for CRS to "shepherd" Nicholas to the right stepping-off point. He faces the elevator, shoots Conrad, then walks in a straight line right off the roof. I buy it. The initials "CRS" appear throughout the movie as various law enforcement, services, even cabs used by Nicholas (California Regal Sedans, Cable Repair Services, and Consumer Recreation Services). It's all part of the Game. The Game had already begun the moment Conrad gave Nicholas his birthday present. Christine/Claire waits on them at that lunch and spill her tea on Nicholas, who is irritated, but lets it go. Cheers -- thanks as always for the great reactions!

Farbod

I feel bad for people that can't enjoy a movie like this and have to logic every detail. It's a movie... you are supposed to suspend reality a bit. This movie is fantastic.

Tim T—
>>141134434

It’s even worse: Van Orton fell trough a glass roof with STEEL BEAMS.

NotlobParrot

Seeing that adorable cat on Simone's shoulder like a fabulous scarf makes me wonder: Is there a Video or Post where Simone talks about her kitty cat(s)? Names, quirks, etc? One of my *favorite* things is when a reaction suddenly has a Purring Commentary Track. 😍

Maiki
>>141413695

I think she talks a bit about Luna and Maggie in one of the AMAs. Maybe in both. ;)

ExtraBigAssTaco
>>141156482

We also see that "it" is already starting to work, he's already changing, when he sincerely apologizes to his ex-wife.

Brendan Rafferty

Worst casting… George C Scott as John Rainbird in Stephen King’s Firestarter (1984) The character in the book is a seven foot tall physically imposing Native American… and a master assassin They cast very white and very old and out of shape George C Scott… but filmed him with other characters reacting as though this fat old man in a girdle was still physically imposing https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8m6CWngM2XOC6suYyLLmdZ4CrM1GvURNrSkGufLb9vH0nfkwhplXz9K2AaSwfwUD-TJR9TYHYf_Rl1Fe6G_QBZ-WL5WctH-xHX1p2EO1nqWiaqxDJaXi6PJmo98_lQmE9MdMEFhnUVYtv/s987/firestarter2.jpg

Brendan Rafferty

Wrong race casting… This one was a surprise considering it was 2005 and you would think Hollywood would have stopped doing this by the 21st century. Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li, and Michelle Yeoh… three Chinese actresses cast as the three main leads, playing Japanese geishas in the 2005 film Memoirs of a Geisha. So as recent as 2005, Hollywood was still treating all Asians as interchangeable

pinkdino99

You should do Spy Game - its a real world (no gadgets !) spy movie with Brad Pitt and Robert Redford by Tony Scott. Very smart, treats the audience like adults and focuses one of the major stories on the war during the 80s in Beirut. It's brilliant. Interesting about Foster as she went on to work with Fincher in Panic Room.

Rev

Damn, you guys made me lose The Game. Since I didn't see anyone else discussing it, I'll explain. The Game is a game that is always going. Everyone is always playing, whether they know it or not. Even those that don't know about The Game are playing The Game. The key is to not think about The Game. If you think about The Game, you lose and must announce that you've lost. Anyone reading this post has lost The Game, and so did I. More info can be found on Wikipedia by searching "The Game (mind game)"