(Discussion Topic) Movies

No this is not about games that came from movies. Or movies that were made about games either. More or less this is about two movies I know of that you may not heard of that kinda revolves around games in a way.

The first movie is called The NINES starring Ryan Reynolds. No many people have heard of this movie. I also will say if you watch this movie you wont under stand the game reference till close to the end. Yes I am serious, but then again this is one movie that you do have to pay attention to.

There are many dry parts, but then again I enjoyed it all after realizing I was watching it wrong in a sense.

Now my next movie I want to highlight is also a lesser known movie called BenX. This is one movie an MMO On-Line player should watch. I say this as it revolves around a few on-line players. Even though I understood what was going on I am glad they made a movie like this in a way.

Yes I know other movies are out there that have games depicted in them. However I believe these two movies best center around games in two distinct and different methods. So as a gamer and if your interested I say give these a shot.

If you choose to watch one I say The NINES would be the better choice because you understand at the end and not the begining.

Out side of the video game based movies or movies coming to games. How do you see games portrayed in movies?

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Pete Davison

August 24, 2009

Terribly. I break out in a rash every time you see kids in a movie playing a PlayStation game with 360 controllers. It even bugged me in Spaced (not a movie, I know) where the continuity editing meant that Tim got from the beginning of Resident Evil 2 to almost the end in a matter of minutes. And Spaced was normally good about that sort of thing.

Jay Henningsen

@Toby - I think the movie you're talking about is "The Nines." "The Nine" is a tv show that does not have Ryan Reynolds in it.

"Reign Over Me" with Adam Sandler and Don Cheadle has a good representation of someone using video games as an escape from real life. In this case, the game is Shadow of the Colossus.

Toby Davis

Thanks it is the nines I have to add the letter s. ;D

Lance Darnell

I will check out both of these flicks, and from what I have seen video games are usually seen in a negative light in films. But besides The Wizard, I cannot think of many that even HAVE video games... so I am not an expert on the subject.

Chris Cosmo Ross

I don't think I've heard of either of them, but they sound kind of interesting.

I want to say it was Charlie Angels 2 (not sure, could've beent the first one) where at one point these kids are playing Final Fantasy VIII and I thought, "Wow, this is the best part of the movie by far."

William Figueroa

Movies and Games are competitors. They don't like each other, and when referenced in each other, it is in a bad way.

@William - Film and video games used to be competitors, but I think video games have moved far and away from film in both revenue and imagination. I just got out from under my rock, so how do video games bash film?

@lance - a Superman video game was made enough said

a Superman video game was made enough said

Several Superman games have been made. So far, they have all sucked.
Superman 64, especially, was an abomination.

@Toby - So the game was bashing the film by just being made? ;D

Mike Gingras

I think a lot of movies show games and gamers in a poor light. I remember going to see XXX (that Vin Diesel movie, I was young and I had a date, so sue me) and the joke was that Playstation taught him to be a highly trained killer. Hilarious to serious people, but I hope we as gamers can grab some more respect in the future.

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