Review of Video Games: The Movie (2014) by Tenchuukhan — 05 Nov 2014

There's everything been said already about this "documentary" that needs to be said.

While it starts out with your regular "that's where it all started" story about the first computers and Pong, etc. it soon becomes a really dull, unreflected, almost pathetic appraisal of the industry.

You'd think that for a documentary, funded independently, you'd get a more critical view on the subject, rather than an all around appraisal.

The only "critical" subject they covered was violence in video games, great. Instead of actually digging into the subject they come up with some "speakers" that use platitudes that could be compared to anti-gay slogans like "It's Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve" or gun enthusiasts making dumb "guns don't kill people" comparisons.

They should have at least come up with the results of a proper study in this regard. But I guess that was too hard.

There were no questions raised about the development of micro-payment systems or the DLC policy of some companies. Neither was there much mentioning about the flood of early access games.

All in all most of this piece dumbs down to: omg look at the graphics - how we went from this, to that... so amazing. Yea, great - I get the same insight watching "Kids react to" videos.

Also, too many segments with **** music and just clips from games...