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.

  • Antiwork [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    It’s an interesting flick. Like on the one hand it’s total capitalist propaganda, but I enjoy watching them try to the USSR Bad thing because they always find a way to make them look good.

    spoiler

    In the end it’s one bad guy who has been bought off by :porky-scared: who then loses billions. The bad guy is KGB and his subordinate arrests him. They also try to make Gorb look good, but he also was friends with :porky-scared-flipped: . And just ends up looking clueless and easily manipulated by western power.

    There’s so many scenes where you can see what they’re trying to do and yet it fails miserably if you have an ounce of critical thinking. However Americans have been force fed USSR bad so long they won’t even question any of it.