Being so hooked up on video games my whole life, this was like the ultimate film for me. It starts out from the beginning introducing existing games such as Zelda etc. The opening to the film where usually you see the universal logo was done in old bit text, form that moment I think pretty much all of us where going to enjoy this. Though my doubts about video game inspired films are always there because we’ve seen it so many times where they screw it up. Basically it’s about Scott and he has this new girlfriend who he really doesn’t want to be his girlfriend, he starts to take more interest in this other girl who keeps appearing in his dreams eventually meeting her in real, the thing is to date her he must first defeat all her ‘evil exes’, 7 of them to be exact. This leads to them appearing just about anywhere and everywhere out of the blue and Scott must beat each one in a combat battle, but the way it is simulated is exact to that of a video game style of play, how could it not be anymore cool and awesome?
When Scott beats one of these ’evil exes’ they explode and thousands to millions of coins scatter everywhere indicating a sort of arcade style of winning, something that similarly reminds me of winning on a slot machine and it paying out like crazy, makes sense though! There was all these little things in there they had taken from gaming, like when Scott goes to the bathroom and the ‘pee bar’ appears and it decreases as he ‘uses the bathroom’. There’s one scene where Scott gains an extra life as it were, from that moment it stuck in my mind because I thought “Scott is going to get killed later on and his 1up will bring him back” and it did! I just knew it, when you’ve been play games as long as I have it’s so obvious that’s why they give him it. The battle of the bands thing during the film was kind of a cliché, we’ve seen it so many times in the movies etc and the main characters always seem to win, but one thing I liked about he name of the band was that it was inspired by a Mario character or enemy, the band name: ‘Sex Bo-omb’ I noticed the ‘-omb’ part and knew that’s where it was taken from straight away, quite clever if I say so.
The scenes and graphics used in the film was spot on, I think they really captured the atmosphere of gaming with all the bright colours and what not, that’s what gaming in the old days was all about they took the feeling of that retro style and put it in there, which to me is the core of gaming, it’s the start and beginning of where it all started, and I just love the old classics more than anything. That’s all gone now, it’s all about trying to be as realistic as possible with a billion different colours to use which I don’t see ever happening, it brings you back to the roots of gaming through film format... really? We needed a film to that? Too many people forget about the old ones, it’s all about Call of Duty and Halo etc and to be honest I’m fed up with hearing it, I complain too much, maybe I should actually play it and see what it’s all about.
The one scene I remember the most was were Scott is using the bathroom however and the music is a remix version of a song from the Legend of Zelda, it actually sounds better than the original and as soon as it came on I clicked what it was from, they mentioned Zelda quite a few times in the film. I think it sort of portrays what it may have been like being a teenager (or a young person in Scott’s case)in the 1980’s where video games were at their peak, because to me it shows that in scenes like the battle of the bands etc.
It don’t think it’s the best film I’ve seen, but it’s definitely one I’d watch over again and again because it’s quite odd to see how a film director making a video game style movie actually got it right, or at least for me they got it right.
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