of the film review was published in the "Beijing Evening News". I believe anyone who has watched the trailer of "Pixel Wars" will be full of expectations for the film. The setting of "World" is fresh and interesting enough, but when I really walked into the theater, I discovered that the film’s loss of word-of-mouth in the US box office is not because the taste is too old, but the actual presentation of the film is too far away from people's expectations. "Pixel Wars" has only one good idea. The scene is perfunctory, the special effects are not shocking enough, the script is banal, and the protagonist lacks charm. The execution of creating a wonderful film can't keep up with the creative level. As a result, a good idea was wasted. .
People can sum up many problems in "Pixel Wars", but the author believes that the biggest problem of the film is that the film is not well played and not good enough. As a summer commercial blockbuster, it is also the theme of the disaster of aliens invading the earth. This is simply It is the biggest "crime" for the audience who bought tickets. The first action scene of aliens attacking the U.S. Air Force Base in Guam. Originally, the audience was expecting the "Little Bee" to fight with American fighter planes. As a result, there was not even a face-to-face battle scene. Only the black commander came out of the ruins and was caught by the aliens. The spaceship becomes a special effects lens that sucks pixels away. This kind of special effects lens of "people turning into pixel blocks" is fresh at first time, but the following plot repeats this scene many times in succession, which makes people unable not to be aesthetically tired. NS. The second action scene in which aliens destroy the Taj Mahal in India is just a flash in the background. In the third game, the human army and game players joined forces to fight the "Big Centipede" in Hyde Park, England. The action scene is a bit moving, but it only has the word "lively." I blamed how handsome I was, and then there was nothing to do with the army. The two gamers got the "big centipede" all done, and the difficulty value was too low, so that the audience didn't feel any tension at all. The fourth game where players played against "Pac-Man" in New York was the most interesting and tense action scene in the film, but this "fun" came more from the murderous and cute "Pac-Man", and Not the action scene itself. The sense of tension is only more prominent compared to other action scenes in the film, and in fact it can't achieve the effect of making the audience's heart mentioned.
In the ending climax action drama, the invasion of the alien game army in Washington is truly involved in the "big scene". The player hero playing against the "Donkey Kong" is the action scene with the highest degree of restoration, the strongest sense of nostalgia, and the strongest sense of the game. But it still creates a messy lively effect, the overall is not exciting, and the details are not very charming. Generally speaking, the big scenes and action scenes of "Pixel Wars" failed. In this regard, the film crew did not have enough confidence in the film and was unwilling to spend a lot of money to build the big scenes. As a result, "the alien game army invaded the earth" was only cheap. The sense of game, no shocking sense of blockbuster. On the other hand, the film’s main creative creation of game action scenes has a serious lack of imagination, resulting in the "game fighting" in the film is just a modern 3D pixel restoration of 8-bit pixel games in the 1980s, and the battle mode lacks in addition to paying tribute to the classics. The refreshing innovation and the too monotonous and light game feel can hardly bring enough excitement and tension to the audience. The whole film is naturally unspeakably wonderful.
If the problem with the action scene in "Pixel Wars" is just "not exciting", then the problem with the film's script can only be described as "very bad". In 2012, "Invincible Destruction King" was also a classic game in the nostalgic eighties, and 2014's "Guardians of the Galaxy" was also popular in the nostalgic eighties, indicating that the nostalgic eighties had great box office potential in the United States. As a result, "Pixel Wars" nostalgic eighties classic arcade game has exploded. The reason is that the film did not inject full-scale vitality and vitality into the classic game characters and game scenes like "Invincible Destruction King", but only modernized the 3D pixel restoration of the 8-bit game of the 1980s, which has been lost to some extent. The classic authentic flavor is in an embarrassing state of neither new nor old; nor does it perfectly combine the pop culture of the 1980s with the character characteristics of the protagonist like in "Guardians of the Galaxy", but just bluntly collage. A large number of game symbols and cultural symbols from the 1980s, most of which are neither smart nor interesting. Moreover, the film’s positioning is too much for game geeks in the 1980s. It’s hard to imagine how much support the game geeks of the year and today’s middle-aged uncles can provide to the film’s box office. Bit games, like the little boys in the film, can have such a powerful attraction to contemporary youth groups who use "Call of Duty" and "Halo" as classic games. The film seems to try to explain the unique value and significance of the classic games of the 1980s compared to the contemporary classic games, but it does not say why, only leaving some "the games of the 1980s have patterns, and the current games are too random". Simply spit it out. Wouldn't this arouse the resentment of contemporary game fans?
The eclipse of the action scenes made the whole film's literary play appear extremely procrastinated, boring, and mediocre. The film’s main creator’s attempt to compensate for "not enough action and comedy" also failed. The designs of many comedy characters and bridge sections are blunt and exaggerated. Excessive, it is purely for the sake of being funny, and it cannot make the main story really exude the charm of comedy. And Adam Sandler, as the comedy star who plays the role of the film, in addition to bickering with the heroine can burst out the sparks of joy, the joy of other scenes are quite weak, and there is no such thing as a comedy star. The mentality of "taking the pay and going through the scene" to make money makes it absolutely impossible to see that this is actually a film created by Adam Sandler's own company that bought the copyright. The two stars, Kevin James, who played the president, and Peter Dinklage, who played "Invincible Thunderbolt", were also in the same mood in the film, but the ecstasy of the game otaku played by the little fat Dun Josh Gad robbed it. Lots of limelight. As for the inspirational elements of the film, please, is it good to be inspirational? The few gamers who are frustrated in life in the film do not need to be inspirational at all. They are just the "big pie" of "the army of alien games invaded the earth". It hit them, and let their outdated game skills come into use, so they became great heroes, saved the world, soaked in beautiful girls, and embarked on the pinnacle of life. Especially at the end of the film, the design of the game otaku "dreams come true" and the game beauties married, almost turned the film into an otaku obscene movie. (Text/Levin) For
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