"Pixel Wars": Game House saves the world

Kristy 2021-11-30 08:01:28

Such a short sentence is enough to summarize the plot of the film. On the one hand, it exposed the biggest problem of the film. The plot was too clichéd and simple. It was like a casual worker who didn't use his brain and only took a few minutes to figure it out. The screenwriting team and the script doctor all went on a job to pick up girls. On the other hand, this simple to the extreme plot allows the creative team to give up trying to confuse the audience through the complex narrative brain-burning plot, and focus on the pixel invasion and the game itself.
The originality of this film is derived from a short film of pixel invasion, but it is not limited to this creative display. It is more to give gamers a revisiting of 8-bit in an era when video game production concepts that challenge the limits of hardware are popular. Chance. If the manga movie headed by Marvel is a feast for comic fans, then Pixel War is a carnival for game fans, revisiting the classics, and recalling the original dream. Unlike Prince of Persia, Tomb Raider, Assassin’s Creed, World of Warcraft and other game movie modes that create plot innovations under the existing world view of the game, this film is like the King of Invincible Destruction and treats all the games as equals from the perspective of the player. . One emphasizes the plot and the sense of substitution, and the other examines the game itself and the players themselves from the perspective of God.
Speaking of pixel games, the author's memory starts with the Cassidy game console and gameboy, and ends with various emulators and retro pixel games. What appears in this film are all classics among the many classics that first became popular in the 1980s. In the 1982 World Video Game Competition, you can also see Atari, Namco, Nintendo, Konami, etc. The veteran game company. From these details, you can feel the film’s full sincerity for the players and fans. At the same time, due to the existence of these era things, the film's mockery of the popular elements of the era is also inevitable. The historical conspiracy theories that have been particularly popular are also turned out and speculated in the film. I think the most innocent people are still the President of the United States and the corrupt country of Britain. The Pixel Wars once again confirmed that Britain is the country most likely to be mocked by Hollywood. If you think about it carefully, the three recent Hollywood movies, Mission Impossible, Minions and Pixel, all ridiculed Britain and the head of state. Of course, the President of the United States is also shot in the film without exception. It seems that it is not easy to be a leader of the United Kingdom and the United States. You must have the consciousness to be ridiculed at any time. Such a B-level movie with a strong temperament, all kinds of cold humor and bad jokes are naturally standard.
The pixel elements in the movie are no longer limited to 2D graphics, but the 3D pixels of Minecraft, and under the current digital graphics processing, they are colorful and colorful. The most exciting part of Pixel Wars is the perfect 3D pixel-level restoration of games such as Little Bee, Big Centipede, Donkey Kong, Pac-Man, Tetris, etc. It turns out that the way the protagonists save the world is to play games with aliens. It can be seen that playing games is not fun, but can play a huge role. The film also borrows the protagonist’s mouth, saying that the former game arcade allows game lovers to get out of the house, get together, carnival and exchange, and the game is social, unlike the current video games, they only need to stay at home, even if there is a community. The group network still alienates each other. This not only points out the social crisis caused by the current games that turn players into homes, but also concerns about social networking and virtualization.
This film is destined to not get widespread attention. Pixel lovers are often either veteran hardcore players or people who are purely keen on retro pixel games. This group is too small. And this film is full of B-level film atmosphere, even the main actors are only acting as supporting roles in other movies, such a big and small movie, compared with the annual Disney animation like Invincible Destruction King, it is also not good or not popular. normal.
(Produced by Shige, original article, no reprint without authorization)
Text: Shige
late at night on September 15, 2015

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  • Abigail 2022-03-20 09:01:42

    The climax didn't come up at the end, and the scenes other than PK were really too perfunctory...

  • Sydnie 2022-04-20 09:01:41

    It's okay, keep it at this level all year round, neither praise nor criticism.

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