
‘The Game’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan
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The Game: Exploring a Director's Disavowed Movie
In this chapter, they discuss a movie that a famous director made and later disavowed. One person agrees with the director's assessment that the final third of the movie fell apart, while another person actually enjoyed the ending. They also talk about the director's attention to detail and how some inconsistencies in the ending can be overlooked if the movie is viewed as a fairy tale. Towards the end, they make a comparison between the movie's third act problems and the performance of a basketball team.
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