Video Games: The Movie
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
Cosy, kinetic, gentle documentary, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →From executive producer Zach Braff and director Jeremy Snead, "Video Games: The Movie" is an epic feature length documentary chronicling the meteoric rise of video games from nerd niche to multi-billion dollar industry. Narrated by Sean Astin and featuring in-depth interviews with the godfathers who started it all, the icons of game design, and the geek gurus who are leading us into the future, "Video Games: The Movie" is a celebration of gaming from Atari to Xbox and an eye-opening look at what lies ahead.
Our read · Video Games: The Movie (2014) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded documentary entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
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The shape of Video Games
What watching it is actually like.
“You want an enthusiastic documentary history of video games from arcade to industry.”
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The reading.
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