May 5, 2017
The major selling point of The Good Son was how
dramatically Macaulay Culkin was playing against type. As it turns
out, the three of us remembered more about our initial reactions to
that than we did anything from the film itself.
Unfortunately, once you get past the novelty of seeing Kevin
McCallister transformed into Michael Myers, there's just not much
going on here. Ideas are presented but not explored, characters
don't change that much, and in its race to check every box on the
list of thriller cliches, the movie forgot to put a new spin on any
of them.
Topics include: the project's evolution from a lower-budget/riskier
concept into a safer and more mainstream major release, a score
that draws attention to itself for all the wrong reasons, at least
three other much simpler ways to tell this story, a lot of love for
Elijah Wood, listener comments, and much much more!
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