Everything Wrong With Free Guy In 18 Minutes Or Less

Free Guy was a pretty delightful surprise in the hellscape that was 2021. But it still has sins, so we counted 'em.

Thursday: gambling sins.

Remember, no movie is without sin. Which movie's sins should we count next?

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[spenceroneil]

The Chris Evans cameo was incredible. Especially cause he was called same day by Ryan and asked if he could do it

[ApoasDemon]

Fun fact: in Croatia, people actually do order a single coffee and sit there for 4 hours. It's a social event of a sort and leaving anytime before the two hour mark is considered unusual.

[MikaelGuggenheim]

BTW. I'm surprised you didn't sin the "is that a glock in your pocket" since she shouldn't be able to "feel" anything as a player.

[RiverDine]

0:45 Even if most didn't have morning routines, *Guy* would because he was the character created by Keys to know the most about Millie and eventually have the subroutine kick in

[RSHMAN]

6:50 "The glasses respawn with him"
Um actually, every time he dies he kills a new player, as shown by how he always has a different set of glasses

[ShortHax]

I was quite disappointed to learn that I didn’t get Ryan Reynolds for free. Quite possibly the biggest scam since the Never Ending Story

[rockyx]

"There is no button for kissing."
*A couple scenes later guy and Mollie kiss to regain his memories.

[rjdruhan]

As an actual IT professional: You'd be surprised how often a strawberry ice cream bribe works.

[crimson]

Everytime he died he respawned with a different pair of sunglasses meaning each time he respawned he had to get a new pair. Meaning each time he died he just stole a players whole HUD

[jaskirat]

Calling a portable toilet a “doctor who Easter egg” is a sin for cinemasins.

[nufonewhodis]

5:47 this is actually EXACTLY what kitchen areas in startups look like and they deserve tons of credit for nailing that.

[vickielawson]

7:33 - CinemaSins gets a sin for not sinning the misspelling of the word “withdrawal”.
*DING!*

[SullySideUp]

Guy has a morning routine that no player character will ever see because he's not an NPC, he's an AI. Literally the entire point of the film is that the citizens of Free City were stolen wholesale from the game Keys and Millie made. Nobody programmed him to have a morning routine, they just grabbed his code and inserted it into the bank teller scenario, assuming he'd despawn whenever it wasn't active

[effiethefey]

The only thing I'm disappointed in is that they didn't get Hugh Jackman to play Ryan's "better version"... Such a missed opportunity....

[HeresorLegacy]

To be fair, lots of the "NPCs have routines have routines no player sees" and "NPCs can do player stuff"- Sins is probably in lore oversight of Antoine building on Millie's and Keys' code.
The NPCs are supposed to be self learning and interact with the world in a meaningful way.

[Alpha]

5:52 I agree. The movie has never “kitchen’d” before. The break room at my workplace has a ONE half empty hot sauce bottle on the counter that sits there. It is purely for decoration. It will move around the break room but no one uses it. For the past year, it has remained half empty.

As for the cereal and pop tarts, if individual packaged food items are ever left out on the counter, they won’t last two hours. It is gone faster than a piranha feeding frenzy.

[pierogracis]

I'm surprised you didn't sin the moment when she kisses him the second time: if there's no button to do that and only a sentient NPC can do it, how is that Millie manages to kiss him in the virtual world?!

EDIT: I have to say I appreciate all the various theories that have been expressed down here, they are an interesting read. Plus, the fact that everyone kept a civil tone is a great thing given how these discussions easily escalate. Kudos to everyone!

[somethingnotcatchy]

We're definitely gonna gloss over the fact Keys said to Millie about kissing "There's not a button for that." But proceeds to kiss Guy herself later.

[AnarKvril]

7:00 I gotta sin you for not knowing how a Portal Gun works. She would need to be able to see into the bad guys lair and have a viable surface if she wanted to use the gun to get in. Plus she was obviously planning on using the orange portal for a quick escape once the mission was accomplished. Better to sin the movie for forgetting that portals must be placed on a surface and can’t just be floating in air.

[babeileedwards]

Im surprised there was no sin for the fact that the twitch streamer who had Deadpool merch didn’t think that blue shirt guy looked familiar…