The Adam Project (2022) + The 'Is It Cake' Algorithm Trap
Mar 18, 2026 ·
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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...
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Is The Adam Project a kid's movie wearing a Ryan Reynolds costume? We dig in. In this episode:
Stop by and discourage us on Instagram, X, TikTok, Discord, YouTube, and Threadshttps://linktr.ee/dontencourageusListen to all the music we've discussed in every episode so far on our Encouraged Grooves playlist on YouTube and Spotify and find your next favorite song.
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- 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
Stop by and discourage us on Instagram, X, TikTok, Discord, YouTube, and Threadshttps://linktr.ee/dontencourageusListen to all the music we've discussed in every episode so far on our Encouraged Grooves playlist on YouTube and Spotify and find your next favorite song.
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