{"id":24588,"date":"2014-07-28T02:14:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T06:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=24588"},"modified":"2017-03-06T02:18:25","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T07:18:25","slug":"video-games-the-movie-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/28\/video-games-the-movie-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Games: The Movie (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>One of the many things I really like about \u201cVideo Games: The Movie\u201d is that it occasionally shares knowledge that not even vintage gamers like me knew. I was always convinced the term \u201cbits\u201d was a completely nonsensical buzzword invented to sell games, but surely enough it\u2019s a real term. It\u2019s not only real, but makes a big difference in regards to game consoles. While \u201cVideo Games: The Movie\u201d may not shed new information for everyone, it\u2019s at least a charismatic and entertaining celebration of the medium that\u2019s become big business all over the world.<\/p>\n

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\u201cVideo Games: The Movie\u201d is a celebration of video games, more than a serious look at the entire industry. It zooms through many of the major video game consoles just to enter in to the modern era of video gaming. There\u2019s no mention of the entire war between Sega and Super Nintendo, there\u2019s also no mention of stuff like the Game Gear and the Game boy, either. I was left wondering quite often what the entire goal for the documentary was, if they weren\u2019t intent on confronting the popularity and impact of games. How do you zoom past \u201cMortal Kombat\u201d without discussing its effect on pop culture? And what of \u201cStreet Fighter II\u201d? \u201cVideo Games: The Movie\u201d doesn\u2019t so much marvel at the idea of video games, so much as it does modern video games, and the technological strides they\u2019ve made.<\/p>\n

Which is disappointing, considering the history of video games is filled with so much interesting and fantastic stories about big business, and over ambition, that \u201cVideo Games: The Movie\u201d just feels more like an EPK. That said, \u201cVideo Games: The Movie\u201d is a primer course for folks that aren\u2019t too keen on the subject of videos games and would like to know why it\u2019s such an appealing phenomenon. There are a ton of interviews with interesting geek celebrities including producer Zach Braff, and Chris Hardwick, right down to Hideo Kojima and Max Landis. The video game industry and its history are fascinating and for the most part, director Jeremy Snead covers the wealth of events, including the big crash of the eighties, the infamous release of the \u201cE.T.\u201d Video game, and the introduction of Super Mario.<\/p>\n

For many audiences, the documentary will be a shot of welcome nostalgia that touches on some unique and entertaining video games that are still very popular today. We garner some nice anecdotes from celebrity commentators, all of whom have their own past with certain titles, as well as memories that have helped solidify video game as a passion for them. I would have loved if director Snead would have interviewed internet personalities and video game scholars like Pat the NES Punk, or the James Rolfe, but let\u2019s face it, this is strictly an affair for celebrities, and not much else. \u201cVideo Games: The Movie\u201d is an imperfect documentary, but definitely one filled with great editing, and fun looks back at classic video gaming. Truthfully, you can find better movies out there about video games, but for an unabashed ode to the medium that less about failure, and more about its benefits, \u201cVideo Games: The Movie\u201d is a breezy one hundred minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the many things I really like about \u201cVideo Games: The Movie\u201d is that it occasionally shares knowledge that not even vintage gamers like me knew. I was always convinced the term \u201cbits\u201d was a completely nonsensical buzzword invented to sell games, but surely enough it\u2019s a real term. It\u2019s not only real, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[292,469,737,1156],"class_list":["post-24588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-documentary","tag-history","tag-nostalgia","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24590,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24588\/revisions\/24590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}