The thing is it's NOT a movie that panders to gamers. There's never a scene where somebody's like "Hey everybody! Let's go play videogames! Remember videogames?" Nobody plays somebody's grandma in a videogame for the publishing rights. There's no "oh, get the super secret hidden warp whistle in this game nobody's ever seen…
Saw it this weekend. LOVED it. It has a certain flashy flair that is hard to describe. The whole movie feels like a comic book videogame turned into a music video.
Yeah that's totally what i'm thinking. It really doesn't appeal to me. The trailer wasn't funny, it was over the top, the actors unappealing (seriously, the two main actors are below average looks imo) and gahh they even had Pendulum as music underneath. And they try so hard with the stupid videogame references and…