I must have caught just the last part of this in a hotel somewhere as a kid. Finally watched the whole movie to see what led up to the hockey scene I remembered.
Genius was a fine watch until the script had Charlie not explain the real reason he'd pretended to be Chaz. His silence on the matter undermines the whole message of the film that he just leaves the Franklin kids to think he did it as a social experiment, or to make himself feel superior. There was a great opportunity for him to confide in his new friends about always being an outcast until now.
Controlling the hockey players' entire bodies with one "microchip" affixed to a single skate didn't help, either. The graviton-assisted shenanigans aren't even internally consistent; sometimes the affected Rumson players act as if only the chipped skate is being manipulated, but other times their whole bodies follow the actions of whoever's controlling them from the lab. (A gag where two Rumson players were forced to kiss in midair would have distracted from the plot, so I'm sure the opportunity was intentionally ignored.)
Surely my opinion would have been different all those years ago. But I'm older and a little wiser now, for better or worse.
And speaking of watching this well after its release, I now have the ability to see that Emmy Rossum as Claire looks a lot like Nico Parker as Sarah in HBO's The Last of Us adaptation. Most viewers of Genius up to now will have had no chance at all to make that association.
Review by dgwVIP 10BlockedParent2023-02-26T10:20:39Z
I must have caught just the last part of this in a hotel somewhere as a kid. Finally watched the whole movie to see what led up to the hockey scene I remembered.
Genius was a fine watch until the script had Charlie not explain the real reason he'd pretended to be Chaz. His silence on the matter undermines the whole message of the film that he just leaves the Franklin kids to think he did it as a social experiment, or to make himself feel superior. There was a great opportunity for him to confide in his new friends about always being an outcast until now.
Controlling the hockey players' entire bodies with one "microchip" affixed to a single skate didn't help, either. The graviton-assisted shenanigans aren't even internally consistent; sometimes the affected Rumson players act as if only the chipped skate is being manipulated, but other times their whole bodies follow the actions of whoever's controlling them from the lab. (A gag where two Rumson players were forced to kiss in midair would have distracted from the plot, so I'm sure the opportunity was intentionally ignored.)
Surely my opinion would have been different all those years ago. But I'm older and a little wiser now, for better or worse.
And speaking of watching this well after its release, I now have the ability to see that Emmy Rossum as Claire looks a lot like Nico Parker as Sarah in HBO's The Last of Us adaptation. Most viewers of Genius up to now will have had no chance at all to make that association.