While Pixels is nowhere near the worst video game movie, it is still trash. I usually watch movies like this, which are often criticized, and go "that's not so bad" or "So Bad, It's Good", but somebody was outright drunk when they wrote this. First off, while there's one-to-three pros, there's a good amount of cons for each one. It's a dumb action-comedy about gamer nerds, but it goes to Benchwarmers levels of inaccurate to nerds. First off, whoever was doing the research was... not trying. At all. Cheat codes in Pac-Man and Donkey Kong? How do they work in real life like they do? Yet worse, nerds are presented as sleazy-ass losers, universally. The military is useless, there's a gay joke for no discernible reason. (From a straight character, no less.) Sean Bean doesn't die. (But look at his eyes, he's dead inside.)
Adam Sandler is still really bad. Who let this idiot be the president? Why did Dinklage of all people sign on? Seriously, this movie raises too many questions, has too many bad jokes among the half-decent ones, has numerous Critical Research Failure moments, and, also like Benchwarmers, depicts the protagonists as complete losers, making it generic alpha-male trash, except with nerds as the protagonists. And this is not mentioning the terrible "Yogcast" (Yes, they said it Yogcast) marketing campaign, or the implications of sexism. Overall, even with Peter Dinklage, an awesome premise, a big budget,some fairly good jokes, it ends up being a half-assed attempt to appeal to nostalgia, while intentionally making a movie for people in their early teens. While I am fine with people from their early teens knowing about and playing retro video games, being one, they had no idea what the target audience was.
3.5/10, the lowest review I've given so far.
Although, if you want to see the film because Dinklage is in it, go ahead. He was pretty goddamn good. Seriously, though, I'd rather watch Jupiter Ascending than this. And I don't have a very high opinion of that either.
This movie has about two funny moments. Otherwise, it's trash.
While Pixels is nowhere near the worst video game movie, it is still trash. I usually watch movies like this, which are often criticized, and go "that's not so bad" or "So Bad, It's Good", but somebody was outright drunk when they wrote this. First off, while there's one-to-three pros, there's a good amount of cons for each one. It's a dumb action-comedy about gamer nerds, but it goes to Benchwarmers levels of inaccurate to nerds. First off, whoever was doing the research was... not trying. At all. Cheat codes in Pac-Man and Donkey Kong? How do they work in real life like they do? Yet worse, nerds are presented as sleazy-ass losers, universally. The military is useless, there's a gay joke for no discernible reason. (From a straight character, no less.) Sean Bean doesn't die. (But look at his eyes, he's dead inside.)
Adam Sandler is still really bad. Who let this idiot be the president? Why did Dinklage of all people sign on? Seriously, this movie raises too many questions, has too many bad jokes among the half-decent ones, has numerous Critical Research Failure moments, and, also like Benchwarmers, depicts the protagonists as complete losers, making it generic alpha-male trash, except with nerds as the protagonists. And this is not mentioning the terrible "Yogcast" (Yes, they said it Yogcast) marketing campaign, or the implications of sexism. Overall, even with Peter Dinklage, an awesome premise, a big budget,some fairly good jokes, it ends up being a half-assed attempt to appeal to nostalgia, while intentionally making a movie for people in their early teens. While I am fine with people from their early teens knowing about and playing retro video games, being one, they had no idea what the target audience was.
3.5/10, the lowest review I've given so far.
Although, if you want to see the film because Dinklage is in it, go ahead. He was pretty goddamn good. Seriously, though, I'd rather watch Jupiter Ascending than this. And I don't have a very high opinion of that either.