I thought it was gonna be about the guy who actually made Tetris, but no they cover that in 2 minutes at the beginning and the rest of the movie is about the American copyright lawyer trying to get the rights for Nintendo.
It's literally all about how bad the USSR is and how good corporations like Nintendo are. When the American arrives in Moscow they take his passport down to an evil KGB bunker and the whole movie shifts to being tinted blue and grey.
There's literally a scene where the Russian programmer says to the American "we want to be free, we want your coca cola and Levi's jeans". If it wasn't so boring this would read as satire of American media in the Cold War.
Yeah, I've noticed a shift from Muslim terror to anti-soviet stuff these 5 or so years.
Funny how they never make movies about the people Capitalism has fucked over.
Like a movie about Nicola Tesla dying penniless and starving after spending his life having his work exploited, only to have the FBI pick at his corpse once he's dead.
The ultimate would be a movie about Ayn Rand but only in her last years living off social security and dying alone.
While still saying welfare is communism and communism is BAD! Truly american experience :amerikkka-clap:
Nicola Tesla, Steve Wozniak, Ub Iwerks, and Jack Kirby all have someething in common. They all got fucked over by people that would get all the credit for their work. Out of all of them, Wozniak is the most successful.
The 90s were weird because without the Soviets Hollywood didn't know who to cast as the evil bad guys in Action movies. They tried various middle eastern terrorists. They tried South African mercenaries with names like Hans and Fritz. Nothing really stuck. When 9/11 happened you could hear a palpable sigh of relief from California that there was finally a credible official enemy again for them to demonize in the annual action blockbusters.
Hey, that's a nice Stranger Things you got here, sure would be a shame if we inserted countless scenes of David Harbour getting beaten up in a Gulag that completely ruin the tone and pacing just to point out that Gommunism is in fact no iPhone Venezuela 150 trillion dead