Video Games: The Movie

An ecstatic and entirely superficial celebration of computer games, that fails to educate as well as entertain.

I'm not sure who this is marketed towards, since it's not educational in any sort of way about the history or culture around video games. Nor does it address any of the shitty aspects of the culture (misogyny etc.) nor does it seem to capture any of the creative zeitgeist of developers. Want a good documentary about gaming culture? watch King of Kong. Want a good one about the pysche and souk of game makers? watch Indie Game: The Movie. Either way, stay away from this useless wreck.

Very boring, offers nothing new and the narration was terrible.

Feels a lot like an infomercial for buying video games. History is glanced at and rushed through, to be followed by with pimping of this company or that.

Great potential, but lost in bad narrative choices.

Don't pad your shitty documentary out with really, really long pie graph montages. Grade school garbage. Max Landis is a toilet person, comes out twirling silver spoons.

If you have ever played a videogame in your life, this documentary tells you nothing you don't already know. But it's not terrible. Sean Astin does a decent job as a narrator. I have nothing more to say about this...

Nothing but a shallow advertisement for the PS4 and Xbox One. Terrible, awful, and boring.

Not a perfect documentary, but a nice look at the nature of video games as an artform and culture.

There's a few cool montages, but the sum the parts is an unbearable nerd culture circlejerk. Video games cured my cancer, increased my muscle mass, and impregnated my barren wife. Thanks Nintendo!

There are several interesting moments in this documentary. Unfortunately with so much ground to cover a lot of the most interesting moments are rushed. As well a lot of the material I was already familiar with from other productions. I would recommend this for anyone that is interested in the history of video games.

Complete waste of a wonderfull premise. A trip down archivefootagememorylane, as charming as it is, just isnt enough people!

Should be shown as a companion piece to Indie Game: The Movie and both should be retitled as Indie Game: The Indie Movie and Video Games: The 1 Hour 40 Minute Commercial. Fuck off Sean Astin.

Back, forward, back, forward and then back and finally forward in time. This documentary is all over the place, much too ambitious and does not get anywhere. The people they interview are cool tough.

Doesn't really inform gamers about anything new. It's best suited for people who have never played video games.

Fun ride but slightly biased maybe? Not too much depth and focuses on too many things and too much detail in the history.

Unfocused and doesn't add a lot to the conversation. I know games, been playing for a long time so it doesn't tell me much. It's an entry-level documentary but tries to convince us that it's more. It's still pretty decent even if it jumps around way too much and juxtaposes things that shouldn't be. The tone is off because of this, and it's a little dry (especially when it's info-dumping) but like I said, it's a mildly entertaining watch.