I guess I am just weird, but I have seen this movie several times and I just treasure it. I just love how the 4 kids all become friends and play the game together. I always wanted to be in a gaming group like that. I also though Chris Makepeace was wonderful in the part, and that he acted with much enthusiasm and effusiveness. I loved the music even which some have put down and yes even the sappy love/friendship song.
I found it thoroughly involving and not an ANTI-Gaming movie. It is a coming of age movie about adolescence in my book, and it is more about the disconnect that a kids feel to their parents than anything else. The pressure that parents put on their kids to succeed as well is shown here as one of the key reasons that Tom Hanks snaps. The real attack is on parents who don't bother to get to know their children and what their kids want and need, but who are trying to run their kids lives by picking out their schools, friends, and jobs for them like Tom Hanks character's parents in this film.
If ya all weren't so busy snickering and making fun of this movie, you might have realized why Tom Hanks snaps and that it actually had nothing to do with the M & M game at all, and that he would have obviously snapped anyway due to how damaged he was from his overbearing parents (his mom is hinted at as a drunk and his brother ran away from home and his father is just one of them tough gruff bossy sonabitches who orders his son around).
Well I adore this movie anyway, and I found it both entertaining, funny, and moving.
I found it thoroughly involving and not an ANTI-Gaming movie. It is a coming of age movie about adolescence in my book, and it is more about the disconnect that a kids feel to their parents than anything else. The pressure that parents put on their kids to succeed as well is shown here as one of the key reasons that Tom Hanks snaps. The real attack is on parents who don't bother to get to know their children and what their kids want and need, but who are trying to run their kids lives by picking out their schools, friends, and jobs for them like Tom Hanks character's parents in this film.
If ya all weren't so busy snickering and making fun of this movie, you might have realized why Tom Hanks snaps and that it actually had nothing to do with the M & M game at all, and that he would have obviously snapped anyway due to how damaged he was from his overbearing parents (his mom is hinted at as a drunk and his brother ran away from home and his father is just one of them tough gruff bossy sonabitches who orders his son around).
Well I adore this movie anyway, and I found it both entertaining, funny, and moving.