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It took me five sittings to get through this film. Constant distractions and chores kept stopping me from finishing it. Did I choose to watch this movie on a very busy week? Yes. Should I have picked a better time? Yes. Does that change anything now? No.

Plot: After accidentally crash-landing in 2022, time-traveling fighter pilot Adam Reed teams up with his 12-year-old self for a mission to save the future.

Following their *insert Borat voice* great success, Ryan Reynolds and director Shawn Levy reteam after Free Guy for a science fiction film for Netflix. Upon researching the behind the scenes I discovered that The Adam Project was originally supposed to be made back in 2012 and had none other than Tom Cruise attached in the lead role, however then the movie fell into development hell until Netflix bought the rights and made the final result 10 years later. Evidently now the purpose of the delay comes to surface in that the script is weak. It’s as generic of a sci-fi time travel plot as you can expect, and the entire gimmick lies upon Ryan Reynolds sharing a screen with a kid who can make a good impression of a child version of Reynolds. To be fair, the kid Walker Scobell does well with bringing out the sarcastic wise-cracking self of Reynolds to life, however I did find his voice annoying. It’s the kind of kid voice I expect to hear at the grocery store negging his mother to buy him a Mars bar. Well shut it Walker, you ain’t getting a Mars bar! You don’t deserve it cause of your stupid voice!

Outside of the dynamic of Reynolds with the kid, the movie is left with not much else to offer. The time travel aspect is overly convoluted and nonsensical, and all ends up in a finale set piece that is stolen straight from Terminator Genisys, and not going to lie, Terminator Genisys is not the type of film one should be inspired by. Minor near cameo appearances from the likes of Zoe Saldana, Mark Ruffalo and Jennifer Garner (the latter two enjoying a little 13 Going On 30 reunion) are welcome in that they all come with some emotional heft, however two or three powerful scenes don’t save the movie from it’s overall blandness. Also Catherine Keener plays the villain, and she herself is okay, but the terrible aspect comes in when the movie’s plot rewinds to 2018, we see a younger version of that character and goodness gracious do I now realise that we had no reason to complain about that young Luke Skywalker deep fake in the finale of The Mandalorian’s second season! I mean just look at this so called transformation!…

Those are some lousy effects and also Keener’s dialogue is out of sync with her younger character’s movements in the film. This CGI’d version doesn’t match the ample photographic record of what Catherine Keener actually looked like in her 30s. It seemed really off and I’d hate to make the same reference again, but she looked like a bloody Terminator. Ah wait, hang on *shuffles through some papers* Skydance (the production company behind the Terminator movies) produced The Adam Project. All of a sudden these Terminator comparisons are not so coincidental!

The Adam Project is alright. Just alright. Has its moments, Ryan Reynolds and the kid share good banter (even though Ryan Reynolds playing Ryan Reynolds is getting a bit repetitive), however the time travel plot and weak CGI effects are a detriment and make for this to be an overall throwaway Netflix feature. I shall go rewatch Free Guy again instead.

Overall score: 4/10

But why?!? People. It's a disney series with the first openly gay character ever. Did you let that sink in?!?

It's a musical series. Musical.

Still not enough??! It's a series about the early years of Gaston and Lefou. Gaston and Lefou!

Moreover, Gaston and Lefou played by most talented Luke Evans and Josh Gad. I mean.

How come it seems I'm the only one excited about it?!? It's not possible, come on.

(What can men do against such reckless hate?

I'll tell you. Reblog all of my Gafou content again in honour of pride month. Get ready.)

so i’ve seen this around a lot and i always felt like the version i listened to just. didn’t have everything? sO! i edited together my three favourite versions of the tik tok sea shanty! enjoy!!

(listen with headphones if possible!)

He knows what he is doing

“You’re in love with your dreams.” 

Anyway, here’s 2000 some words whumping up an episode where they hinted that shit went down but then did not follow up.

A few days back on AO3 I found an unfinished, two chapter spideypool fanfic that was cute and had lots of potential and was also last updated two years ago. Two whole years! And it had only three comments, all of which on chapter one, none on chapter two. I enjoyed the fanfic, despite it being far, FAR from being finished and the chance of it ever updating again anytime soon was just about zero. So you know what I did?

I wrote a damn comment. On chapter two.

And I made sure that fucker was long and had a small theory of where I think the author would take the fanfic in the future. I let the person behind the fic know that I friggin LOVED the two chapters I got to read! That I would LOVE to see more! That I’d jump out of my skin in happiness and virtually hug them half to death if I saw that they updated it.

Let me remind you this fic wasn’t updated in two YEARS! I was the first to comment on it in a year. And the first to comment on chapter two! And you know what happened today?

I got a reply.

From the author of the fanfic. And the author said how I gave them life for a project they had loved (still did) and that they were now working on a third chapter. After two YEARS of not updating. Of not writing. And it makes me so friggin happy seeing what I did. What I caused.

With a single. Damn. Comment.

All that it took for me was to think a bit about what I wanted to tell the author and the comment it. All it took was one comment. And suddenly this person was inspired to continue a fanfic they had abandoned for TWO YEARS!!

I couldn’t be happier. I couldn’t be more proud.

I’m working on writing another chapter for them.