675. Frame Rate: The Game (Feat. David Bell)

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4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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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! This episode is brought to you by Bender Bending Rodriguez. You can be like Bender by heading over to the Small Beans patreon and pledging for the Pick the Flick tier. You can choose which movies we cover on this here Frame Rate! Features: David Bell: https://twitter.com/MovieHooligan Michael Swaim: https://twitter.com/SWAIM_CORP Abe Epperson: https://twitter.com/AbeTheMighty Support Small Beans and access Additional Content: https://www.patreon.com/SmallBeans Check our store to buy Small Beans merch! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/the-small-beans-store?ref_id=22691

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0:00.0	And the Well, I'm Michael Swaim.
0:30.0	There's also a guest, we're so glad they came. Thanks to our sponsor, Bender-bending
0:36.2	Rodriguez. Sorry, I think he should have made his name something that rhymed. That's on him.
0:45.0	Yeah. his name something that rhymes that's on him. Yeah, yeah. Pick the flick.
0:46.0	You can do it too.
0:47.0	Go to the Patreon.com slash small beans
0:50.0	and you can, uh, if it's open,
0:52.0	click that shit and you can ask us to cover a specific movie that you want us to cover within reason
0:58.9	Within reason and the entirely reasonable movie that Bender-Bending Rodriguez wanted us to cover is
1:04.6	1997's The Game.
1:06.7	It was actually there was a choice between some, but we put it to our guest, Bell which would you rather watch and I believe he just
1:16.3	responded game so very efficient intro by the way. It gives us a little oh, thank you
1:25.1	gives us a little hint into what the response to this question would be but we usually
1:29.9	kick things off by asking the guest. Hey Dave what's your experience with the game?
1:35.3	Had you watched this a lot? Do you like the game? What's your deal?
1:40.0	I love the game. I love the game. I love the game. I think I saw the game when it came out. I might not have seen it in theaters. So I remember
2:00.4	Fincher, kind of, you know, showing up in my life in my teens when I was a supple young teen and just like banging them all out on VHS. This is I believe his third film and just
2:08.9	it's right after seven. Yeah it went Alien 3 7 and then this and then Fight Club.
2:15.0	And it's like Jesus Christ, man, what a lineup.
2:17.4	Wait, Alien 3 was his first directorial credit?
2:20.8	Yes.
2:22.0	He did a lot of music videos and stuff. Yeah, sure. He was, I think they put him on that. He kind of got pushed around in alien three, like I think he doesn't really like how that came out. I think it's fine, but that's a different
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