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If you liked the movie Tetris you might want to check out BlackBerry (leminal.space)

submitted 1 year ago by CorrodedCranium@leminal.space to c/moviesandtv@lemmy.film

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Both movies came out around the same time and I think they have a fair amount in common. Both movies have a fair amount of the "Can they do it?" tension and detail the events behind a major trend.

I think I preferred BlackBerry over Tetris. It seemed more grounded in a way where as I felt Tetris depicted Tetris, the game, as bigger than the second coming of Jesus and sliced bread combined. I felt like it made for a more enjoyable and relatable story.

For a Canadian film it has a surprising amount of big names such as Glenn Howerton (Dennis from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) and Jay Baruchel (from Tropic Thunder and Knocked Up). Here is a Wired review and here is the IMDb page if you are interested.

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[–] Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Both were great. I saw Tetris in the theater and it was pretty awesome. From what I remember of both though, Tetris was purposefully stylized more to be an action film.

[–] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I did get that vibe. I feel like part of the reason I thought it viewed the game so absurdly high was to accommodate the visual effects like when the protagonist plays Tetris on the GameBoy for the first time

[–] Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I need to see it again for a rewatch. I just remember being blown away in the theater because I wasn’t quite expecting all the action and cool visuals.

[–] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe that was part of my issue. I did see some of trailers which over represented the action and overall intensity of the movie. That could be part of the reason behind my jaded opinion.