The reason is that I've been too busy at the moment, especially now that I've joined the Swedish movie database and community MovieZine.
After Pixels, I've also watched Jurassic World (in 3D), Kung Fury and Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation. I've written reviews of them in Swedish for MovieZine. In due time they'll be translated into English and uploaded to this blog.
If you can read Swedish, then you're welcome to visit my profile at MovieZine where you can find all of my reviews of movies I've watched since I joined the community, including older movies shown on TV.
In the meantime, if you like Pixels as much as I do, then you'll love this promo website: Pixels Photo Bomb. In that website, you'll be able to add the alien characters from Pixels to your photos of choice.
A gameplay video of Pixels Defense. (TouchArcade / Bandai Namco)
Pixels
Defenseis a short and easy Tower Defense game which
is loosely based on the movie Pixels.
In the game, you help the protagonists from the
movie (Sam Brenner, President Will Cooper, Ludlow Lamonsoff, Toru Iwatani and
Lady Lisa) protect the cities New York, London, Paris and Sydney from the
invading aliens (which have taken the forms of various video game characters from
classic arcade games of the 80s).
Despite the fact that the game only had 12
levels, the dialogues sometimes came in wrong places, and it was sometimes
difficult to control the protagonists, I enjoyed the game as much as I enjoyed
watching Pixels.
In fact, Pixels
Defense has become my favourite game developed by Bandai Namco!
Unfortunately, the game can't be played on either iPad 2 or Samsung Galaxy Trend Plus.
Pixels' first international trailer. (Columbia Pictures)
I'll first summarize this review with four
words about Pixels: I love this
movie!
Many critics felt the movie was bad, including
the absence of a proper plot and a dangerous villain; bad acting, sexism and
stereotypical offensive image of gamers and nerds. These critics have done
everything in their power to persuade moviegoers to avoid watching the film at
all costs. A journalist from the gaming blog Kotaku e.g. has spoilt the entire story
for its readers. Another journalist felt that Pixelswas worse than Super
Mario Bros. from 1993. A third journalist recommended moviegoers to re-watch
the video game movies Final Fantasy VII:
Advent Children or Wreck-It Ralph
instead since they, according to him, at least respected the source material.
Personally I don't agree with the critics. But
instead of boring you with my arguments, let's put it this way: Pixels is not a conventional video game
movie. It's a sci-fi comedy which pays homage to the classic arcade games of
the 80s. People either love the movie (like I do) or hate it.
I guess the little child inside of me was
awakened during the movie, because I felt the same wow-feeling like when I watched
different adventure movies and series (e.g. Digimon)
when I was younger.
I think Chris Columbus (the director of the first
two Harry Potter movies) and the actors have done a great job. The acting may
not convince everyone, but it convinced me anyway. Pixelsobviously can't be compared with Columbus' Harry Potter
films, but it had its own magic. The movie lacked vulgar humor etc. and I'm
very grateful for that.
Since I liked Pixels so much, I just had to download the tie-in mobile game Pixels Defense directly after watching
the movie. So this is only a positive sign that the movie succeeded in
entertaining me greatly.
What about the 3D effects? Were they any good?
Unfortunately, like Terminator: Genisys
and Ant-Man, the 3D effects only felt
at some places in the movie.
