327: The Favorite

God Awful Movies

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Comedy, Leisure, Tv & Film

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2021

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

This week, Michael Marshall joins us for an atheist review of The Favorite, the story of a guy writing a script immediately after getting a traumatic brain injury and nobody having the heart to tell him to maybe give it two months and try again.
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0:00.0	Yeah, his mom says you wreak and you need a shower and I thought that's the first line
0:08.6	of this film I've re-believed.
0:10.1	Like, I genuinely think that's true.
0:13.6	That he can pull off, that bento down.
0:16.1	Looks like he needs a shower is very accurate about this actor all the time.
0:20.4	Yeah, he's got that on one of his headshots, that's one of the characters he could be.
0:26.7	Unshoured guy number...
0:28.2	Yeah, right, let's not get greedy here.
0:31.2	That awful movie!
0:35.2	Welcome back to the game, Casper.
0:42.4	Each week we sample another selection from Christian cinema because it's all part of the
0:54.8	plan.
1:01.8	Yeah, do it Mad you as a film fan.
1:28.5	a gauntlet. It's a, I would say it's a movie. Sometimes it's not a movie. This right.
1:32.9	Technically a movie. It's two thirds of a movie. Maybe it's maybe the first two thirds of
1:37.6	a redemption arc, essentially. Okay. Yeah. Right. Exactly. So, but here's you're welcome.
1:42.9	Here's the thing though. It is definitely higher quality than a lot of the stuff that we do. But
1:46.7	sometimes when it's like we reached uncanny valley, it's so close to a movie that it's disturbing
1:52.8	that it isn't. Yeah. Right. So, all right. Well, we've talked about it quite a bit here.
1:58.1	Let's let's tell the audience what it is. Tell us what we'll be breaking down today.
2:01.7	We watched the favorite. It's the story of a guy who had a traumatic brain injury from a car accident
2:08.7	and wrote a movie about it way too soon all by himself. Right after traumatic brain injury,
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