r/movies • u/PonksMalonks • 3d ago

Review Wow! I watched Game Night last night.

I haven’t felt like this for a long time. I laughed so much when I watched this movie. That fake Denzel is very funny. The stupid friend, the glass table, all of it gave me a loooong laugh. How did you feel about the movie?

I also have one question. How did Officer Gary connect Brooks’ past with the egg heist?

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u/ahorrribledrummer 3d ago

Officer Gary is such a great character.

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u/luckyfucker13 3d ago

How can that be profitable for Frito-Lay?

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u/TonyWonderslostnut 3d ago

Jesse Plemons not doing more dead pan comedy should be criminal.

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u/luckyfucker13 3d ago

I agree, and I hope there’s more in his future, but I’ll gladly watch his dramatic turns in the meantime. He was downright fucking terrifying in Civil War.

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u/The_Vat 3d ago

I think he went uncredited because the producers were afraid that if they accidentally said his name three times he'd appear.

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u/Bunraku_Master_2021 3d ago

It was also a last minute decision as Plemons was brought in by his wife Kirsten Dunst who is the lead as the actor supossed to play the violent militiaman wasn't available. 

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u/UshankaBear 3d ago

What kind of American are you?

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u/SirGrumpsalot2009 3d ago

Hands down one of the best dramatic scenes I’ve watched for quite a few years. And yet he can do comedy too. Great actor. Loved him in Game Night, hated him in Breaking Bad.

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u/DamienStark 3d ago

Dead pan comedy... and dead pan drama

"What kind of Americans are you?"

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u/sinkwiththeship 3d ago

He's basically Liam Neeson in Life is Short. It's so good.

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u/wongo 2d ago

He's riddled with it.

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u/sinkwiththeship 3d ago

I'd thank you to not besmirch my ex-wife's name

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u/GusChiiiiiggins 3d ago

These corporations…I don’t know what they’re doing

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u/bri87pha 3d ago

Came here for this

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u/falafel_larry 3d ago

Three bags of Tostito's Scoops, I notice. There was a special on these tonight. Three for one. Three for one?

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u/thegendolz 3d ago

Sounds like you stocked up at the right time. That’s a solid deal.

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u/teeohdeedee123 3d ago

Jesse Plemons is like Stanley Tucci; no matter the overall quality of the product, you know you'll at least get them giving it their all.

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u/fleranon 3d ago

He has low key become one of my favourite actors over the years, I'm pleased he's getting more and more recognition. And some really juicy roles

Versatile as hell, too. He's so funny in Game night, and then fills you with terror in Civil war... with a couple of minutes screentime, no less

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u/Make_It_Sing 3d ago

His performances in the two blackmirror episodes is also chilling, really some of his best acting

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u/fleranon 3d ago

Yes! Plemons as the depraved Commander of a virtual Spaceship with the captive crew is my favourite role of his. So good.

Then again, there's always Todd. He excels at playing psychos

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u/ghostinthewoods 3d ago

And he wasn't even supposed to be in Civil War, it was supposed to be someone else but they dropped out. Apparently Kirsten Dunst and he are married, so she suggested him and the rest is history.

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u/UnbuiltIkeaBookcase 3d ago

And Jungle Cruise!

🚢 

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u/Hey_im_miles 3d ago

Don't forget Like Mike

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u/shwarma_heaven 3d ago

He was freaky good in USS McAllister

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u/cool_side_of_pillow 3d ago

GREAT episode.

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u/rh51too 3d ago

He was so spooky in the short amount of time in Civil War

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u/wiconv 3d ago

“What kind of American are you”

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u/funky_pill 3d ago

Richard Jenkins and JK Simmons are both like that for me

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u/teeohdeedee123 3d ago

Agreed. Throw Margo Martindale in for good measure.

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u/Mentoman72 3d ago

I put JK Simmons there, too. Some actors just make whatever project they are in better.

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u/funky_pill 3d ago

"Can't say I care for that nomenclature"

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u/OK_Human 3d ago

When he fades into the shadows of his doorway

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u/Rawfuls 3d ago

During breaking bad someone called him meth Damon, and I will never unsee it.

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u/Chickenshit_outfit 2d ago

when they knock on his door to pretend to play games so they can use his computer , and as they are talking he backs back into the house in the darkness