The Gamementary (Patreon)

On our first syncable commentary track of 2025, we’re chatting over David Fincher’s not-talked-about-enough thriller, The Game! How eerie is Michael Douglas’s creepy clown puppet? How amazing was James Rebhorn in everything, including this? Is this birthday present one of the biggest wastes of money in birthday present history? And wow, do you think the creators of Succession saw the opening of this movie? 

The Game stars Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, Deborah Kara Unger, James Rebhorn, Peter Donat, Carroll Baker, Anna Katarina, Charles Martinet, Elizabeth Dennehy, and Armin Mueller-Stahl as Anson Baer; directed by David Fincher. 

If you’re looking to sync the film with us, we’re watching the Criterion Collection blu-ray, and we have the film set to start at time code 00:00:15, so 15 seconds into the disc, which means the Criterion Collection logo has passed and you can just start to see the orange line of light start to appear from the Universal Pictures logo. If you're not watching the Criterion disc, just listen for further instructions at the start of this track.

This audio begins to sync with the film at time code 00:03:33, so three minutes and 33 seconds from the start of this track.

Thanks for being the kick-ass Patreon subscriber that you are! We know you have a lot of options when you're watching stuff, and we're stoked you decided to sync up with us for this movie!

Cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.