Is The Adam Project a kid's movie wearing a Ryan Reynolds costume? We dig in.

In this episode:

• How Ryan Reynolds' casting rewrote the original script and broke the story
• Why the kid (Walker Scobell) starts as the hero and gets sidelined by his own movie
• The DNA-locked spaceship that can't tell the difference between a 10-year-old and an adult
• Time travel logic: why this movie waves its hand and hopes you're distracted by lasers
• Mark Ruffalo as "the dad who should be a villain but isn't" and why that casting backfired
• What a better sequel could look like (and why it would have to kill Ryan Reynolds first)
• Detour: Is It Cake, Too Hot To Handle, and the death of the prestige Netflix algorithm

Timestamps:

• 0:00 — The Adam Project's vanilla plot
• 5:53 — Why the film is an emotional flatline
• 19:37 — Time travel logic flaws
• 25:49 — The spaceship DNA problem
• 31:18 — Rewriting the ending: why erasing the plot never works
• 34:42 — Detour: Is It Cake and the Netflix algorithm trap
• 39:15 — Too Hot To Handle and the death of prestige Netflix

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