by Ice Cream Jonsey » Sat Dec 26, 2015 9:00 am
My take:
Melissa's nephew spends the night maybe once a month. He is a great kid and likes video games as much as I did at his age. Luckily, he has many other positive role models that get him outside. He likes to play the arcade games downstairs and has opinions on them, likes and dislikes, that sort of thing. He gets very excited to play "Elevator Boy," his term for Elevator Action.
He wanted the three of us to see Wreck-It Ralph. I thought that Wreck-It Ralph was pandering and thought this would be the one movie with old arcade characters and we'd never get another. Pixels, starring Adam Sandler and Kevin James, proved that this is not the case.
I laughed throughout Pixels, but also I couldn't help feeling that it was gunning for a certain age of guys and said, "Fuck it" to anyone else. It is one of the silliest movies I've ever seen and probably requires more suspension of disbelief than any other movie, but at the same time I'm amazed at some of the little details they got right.
It's one thing when Galaga shows up. It's another when Arkanoid shows up (though I get the sense that originally, the Arkanoid level was supposed to destroy the Great Wall of China, only to show the movie in China, they had to change that.) I had an Arkanoid. I assembled an Arkanoid in my garage one summer out of spare parts.
But then Hall & Oates shows up. They are my favorite band.
But then Max Headroom (!!!) shows up. I ... I mean, I own a Max Headroom mask. It's the next room over. How could I not be charmed?
Adam Sandler used to make goofy movies that were rewatchable. At some point he got the reputation as the driving force behind the world's worst films. He probably deserved that, but Pixels is just a notch below Happy Gilmore and the Waterboy, if you're organizing a list of his movies for some reason. Women are pretty much literally trophies in Pixels at different points, which I am sure allows a great deal of people who have safely categorized an Adam Sandler movie as trash (and do not possess the mental agility to change their opinion). It is a very easy movie to get on your high horse about.
It probably isn't going to change anyone's mind, but I was entertained.
My take:
Melissa's nephew spends the night maybe once a month. He is a great kid and likes video games as much as I did at his age. Luckily, he has many other positive role models that get him outside. He likes to play the arcade games downstairs and has opinions on them, likes and dislikes, that sort of thing. He gets very excited to play "Elevator Boy," his term for Elevator Action.
He wanted the three of us to see Wreck-It Ralph. I thought that Wreck-It Ralph was pandering and thought this would be the one movie with old arcade characters and we'd never get another. Pixels, starring Adam Sandler and Kevin James, proved that this is not the case.
I laughed throughout Pixels, but also I couldn't help feeling that it was gunning for a certain age of guys and said, "Fuck it" to anyone else. It is one of the silliest movies I've ever seen and probably requires more suspension of disbelief than any other movie, but at the same time I'm amazed at some of the little details they got right.
It's one thing when Galaga shows up. It's another when Arkanoid shows up (though I get the sense that originally, the Arkanoid level was supposed to destroy the Great Wall of China, only to show the movie in China, they had to change that.) I had an Arkanoid. I assembled an Arkanoid in my garage one summer out of spare parts.
But then Hall & Oates shows up. They are my favorite band.
But then Max Headroom (!!!) shows up. I ... I mean, I own a Max Headroom mask. It's the next room over. How could I not be charmed?
Adam Sandler used to make goofy movies that were rewatchable. At some point he got the reputation as the driving force behind the world's worst films. He probably deserved that, but Pixels is just a notch below Happy Gilmore and the Waterboy, if you're organizing a list of his movies for some reason. Women are pretty much literally trophies in Pixels at different points, which I am sure allows a great deal of people who have safely categorized an Adam Sandler movie as trash (and do not possess the mental agility to change their opinion). It is a very easy movie to get on your high horse about.
It probably isn't going to change anyone's mind, but I was entertained.