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And thus 2012 ends, and thus studios chum the waters with Oscar-bait. Some of the recent releases have been great (Zero Dark Thirty), some weird (Holy Motors), some are for your parents (Lincoln), and some are just plain sadistic (Les Misérables). But while 2012’s been full of solid movies—The Master, Argo, Magic Mike, Looper—there are always too many that are forgotten too quickly. Here are the best of those, which—if their box office receipts are any indication—you didn’t see. But hey, it’s okay! Don’t worry! I’m not mad at you! We can fix this! It’s not too late.
8. Indie Game: The Movie (iTunes, Amazon, Netflix Instant, Steam, and
indiegamethemovie.com) James Swirsky and Lisanne Pajot’s Kickstarter-funded documentary follows the awkward brainiacs behind indie games Braid, Super Meat Boy, and Fez.
Insightful and honest, it’s a look at the side of gaming that can be lost in the white
noise of Mass Effect and Modern Warfare—a place where passionate, exhausted
kids build intensely personal works of art that also happen to be incredibly fun to
play. Sad fact! Movies based on videogames are always terrible. Better fact! Between
2007’s The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters and Indie Game: The Movie, it’s looking
like movies about videogames can be pretty fantastic.
indiegamethemovie.com) James Swirsky and Lisanne Pajot’s Kickstarter-funded documentary follows the awkward brainiacs behind indie games Braid, Super Meat Boy, and Fez.
Insightful and honest, it’s a look at the side of gaming that can be lost in the white
noise of Mass Effect and Modern Warfare—a place where passionate, exhausted
kids build intensely personal works of art that also happen to be incredibly fun to
play. Sad fact! Movies based on videogames are always terrible. Better fact! Between
2007’s The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters and Indie Game: The Movie, it’s looking
like movies about videogames can be pretty fantastic.
