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March 23, 2007
if they're so smart why does the movie suck?
from gaming site kotaku:
Reign Over Me must be one of the first Hollywood films, if not the first, to deal with games thematically and intelligently. While other industry pundits try to figure out how to take the latest blockbuster game and turn it into a movie or vice versa, Reign Over Me already has an insightful leg up: Let the games speak for themselves. Characters bond through games and lose themselves in them, only to find themselves again. They enjoy the simple act of play. "We're starting to get people in Hollywood who have perspective of what the video game experience is like," says Roush, "what it can feel like. And all that gets integrated into Reign Over Me." [full article]
The writer of the above article is right to key in on the fact Reign Over Me uses an old game - Shadow of the Colossus - as opposed to promoting a PS3 title, but too bad the rest of the movie seems to be sentimental pap. I haven't seen Reign Over Me, so maybe the whole thing will turn out to actually have something novel to say gaming, but I somehow doubt it.
Sometimes gamers are so desperate for to be taken seriously that we'll see profundities where there's just a game. A crap movie dealing might deal with your pet interest "thematically and intelligent" is no breakthrough.
Posted by ebogjonson in screened, videogames and other cracks, on March 23, 2007 7:10 PM
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