Lance Guest, Catherine Mary Stewart
I remember watching this movie when I was a kid and thinking it was one of the greatest movies of all time.
I must have done drugs as a kid.
Not really. I think this falls into the category of “This movie was awesome in the 80’s before sweet graphics started to kick ass and make crappy movies at least look cooler.” Actually, this movie was the first movie to have all its special effects (except explosions) done on the computer.
Most every scene around the video game machine and scenes involving Maggie and Alex rate incredibly high on the unintentional scale. The writing is awful. Character development is terrible. And it’s just sad that an entire trailer park rallies around a kid who is going to break the high score on a video game.
I really think watching this movie again now has ruined it for me. Because really, most movies that you thought were awesome in the 80’s really sucked. And it’s because when you were a kid, everything seemed cooler. Especially when it was projected onto a screen that seemed like it was 100 miles high.
While you may look back on this movie and think it’s not as cool as you thought it was, you can at least remember it as the movie that launched Lance Guest’s to B-Star status.
