If they hadn’t included footage from the movie itself I would have been entirely unconvinced James and Maso hadn’t just made this entire thing up as they went.
i liked this movie it was great fun this is a poor excuse for an upload its looking for problems that didnt exist total nonsense tied together with clips from a movie its just nothing content
@benayers8622 oh yes, the film that includes numerous plotholes, god awful comedy that is on the level that a 6 year old would make up on the spot, generally awkward writing, and incredibly unlikeable characters is actually good.
Adam Sandler asked "Yo wanna make a bunch of money fucking around for a couple months?" as he does to every single actor that he casts in his films. The exception being casting Katie Holmes in Jack and Jill to give her space to work on her escape from the cult of scientology and real-life-Patrick-Bateman Tom Cruise.
@@itayeldad3317 I think its a bit of both didn't he specifically push for an older cast because of his experiences working on Harry Potter? Which was a very odd choice.
Lols it never ends well when someone comes up with their own nick name at school. One of the kids in my class wanted to be called 'Sniper' but we ended up calling him 'Snipper' instead. Good times.
My first job in the VFX industry was to work on this movie. We did part of the Centipede battle, and the Donkey Kong battle (which had a lot of it cut). Based on those sequences, I remember telling my close friends how hyped I was for it to come out... and then we saw the movie release and god, was I embarrassed. I wish I had a funny behind-the-scenes joke for this, but it was just kinda sad.
@@sixdegreesofcrispybacon ah, greetings to a fellow vfx monkey! May you always remember to save, and your renders crash less often (I'd say never crash, but can't ask for too big of a miracle hah!)
As someone who was in the Army: In the military there is a ton of time where theres not much going on. In those times, most guys are playing video games. They all are better at video games than Adam Sandler and all his friends.
They're literally using video game-style footage to recruit on this website, so yeah it is absolutely absurd that the military would be ignorant of it. I mean, pretty sure it's one of those things the the department of defense helped fund at some point. Didn't they provide some funding for COD or something? Or was that an urban legend?
@@dragontears the cod franchise is funded by the military, and many higher ups at activison have also held high up positions in the military (and vice versa). but also: basically every american movie that features weaponry is funded by the military. the long and short of it is that *most* media is actually propaganda, but a very large percentage of people believe they’re too smart for propos to work (no one is too smart for propo btw, that’s not how it works) so calling something propaganda is often treated as a derogatory even if it is factually accurate.
@@zeywop not calling you out but what's you're source on many Activision employees holding high positions in the military(I'm not even sure how"vice versa" could be true lol)?
@@Army1601 I like a lot of Taylor Swift's songs, she gets more hate than she deserves, and writing off her music as basic or soulless would be hugely unfair. HOWEVER, I've never been disappointed by a Carly Rae Jepsen song, I think she's a technically better singer than Taylor, and the disparity in fame between two artists who by all rights should be in the same weight class is a damn shame.
me and my mom saw this in theatres when it came out and she started crying at the closet scene because my dad had just left her for a younger woman. this is all i remember from it. I have forgotten everything else
@@camchase9059 for me and her, eventually, yeah. We're doing better than ever. Him, that's too long and tragic a story to tell on a video about le funni adam sandler film
The moment where the original creator of Pac-Man tries communicating with the giant Pac-Man alien only for it to bite his hand off causing the guy to run away screaming for the military to kill it has haunted by dreams for years
I worked at a theater when this was out, and the number of people who came out demanding their money back was staggering. And they hadn’t even gotten to the Q-babies scene
I know that movie theaters see very little profit from tickets anyway, but demanding your money back from people that had absolutely nothing to do with the creation of the film is just bizarre.
@@ToomanyFrancis always cracks me up. Like who is that much of an asshat to think I didn’t like this movie, give me my money back. Like what did you expect to be thinking when you walked out of Freddy Got Fingered. 😂
If you go to one of Adam Sandler's Happy Madison movies expecting more than the bare minimum effort, you're setting yourself up for disappointment. If you want to see Sandler in a good movie any time in the past twenty years, it's got to be one that he's just acting in. If it's from his production company, it's garbage.
Fun fact: they were originally going to have Josh Gad have sex with Smurfette instead of the other character, and on set he would constantly talk about his "seed" so the working title for this movie was called "Blue Harvest"
There's actually kind of a clever idea in that the aliens would take the games as a declaration of war or violence. One of the most common criticisms of video games is their depiction and glamorization of violence. The moral of the story and ultimate climax could have been humans getting the aliens to understand their true meaning and message, by getting the aliens to play the games themselves and having fun with them. Wouldn't that be a great way to end a film like this, something uplifting and heartwarming? Or it could end with Qbert babies, I guess. Sure.
I really wanted to like this movie. It was just a mess from beginning to end. The only upside is that the movie tie in merchandise allowed me to buy a Qbert plush that I still own.
Fun fact: Kevin James from Pixels (2016) and Bill Pullman from Independence Day (1995) are the only two movie Presidents that have saved the world from space aliens.
@@jamstonjulian6947 Nah. he got pierced by a flag. But even if he did not, he definitely did not contribute to saving the world. It was all that one kid and his grandma.
I feel like it's even worse. It's made by the kids who would follow the jocks around and help them bully the smart /nerdy kids, but were themselves neither smart nor sporty. Gross little dorks who survived school by being rude clowns and creeps. Basically a movie made by Booger (Revenge of the Nerds) and Peter Pettigrew.
Did those jocks ever exist anywhere except '80s movies? Every jock I know has always played video games. It's only the bitter incels in Hollywood who insist on writing jocks that way. The self-proclaimed "nerds" of the world are so much more misogynistic and hateful than the popular guys they write as villains.
@@amityislandchumhonestly i wouldnt say so, i lived in canada but the traditional 'jock' type guys were most of the time decent people, i was harassed by typical nerdy guys way more tbh
I completely forgot about this movie lol. The idea of the aliens using Elden Ring sounds horrifying, Malenia gonna be on the greatest kill streak ever until Let Me Solo Her shows up.
@@kittysplodeI've played video games my entire life and I have no idea who Billy Mitchell is. Not that crazy that two people on a movie review channel don't know about whatever happened
I can never forgive him for his opinions on that movie. It’s such a fatal flaw to have as a human being it’s like…why bother? Why bother existing? At least Mason knows what’s good.
Honestly it's probably leftover annoyance from the backlash he got saying Ghostbusters 2016 was better than Ghostbusters 2 (an opinion I wholeheartedly disagree with)
@@kaizerkeller I can't imagine even thinking Ghostbusters 2016 (an actual dumpster fire) is better than Ghostbusters 2. James has some strange opinions.
@@TheDreamingJune Its not that bad. GB2 has the nostalgia going for it, as well as being almost tied with the cartoon show. And 2016 just wasted what is an alright story and effects with a whole lot of silly riffing. I’m just gonna leave this here 😜 In Defence of - Ghostbusters (2016) ruclips.net/video/bkXPou9kZOs/видео.html
@@mitchellsmith6390 First of all, so what if he was? Secondly if he were 12 when this came out, he'd be 20 years old now, which isn't that unbelievable, is it?
Years ago, I did film reviews and TV recaps for an Australian pop culture website. The first movie review I did - which I did for free because I was an idiot - was of this movie. In an email to me later, my editor pointed out how much I trashed the movie. She still liked the review, she was apparently just surprised by my hatred for this. But my argument is, how the hell could you not hate this?
Finally, someone reviewing this film addresses Q-Bert holographic Lady Lisa love set up as the key initial point. Myself and all the possibly up to three other people waiting for this are vindicated.
Ackchyually Peter Dinklage's character is a clear knock at Billy Mitchell (15:58) who famously did cheat at Donkey Kong by playing on a modified arcade machine (which was prohibited under the Twin Galaxies' Donkey Kong rules) that instead of having the original four-way black joystick had a red, possibly eight-way joystick that would of given him a unfair advantage. Also he is a very bad person who has a habit of suing anyone who speak ill of him in anyway, a notable case being the cartoon Regular Show that features a big head parody.
I know I'm really late to the game, but did anyone else notice that at about 13:34, you can see the weird robot head guy's reflection as he walks past the camera, and clearly see his prosthetic CGI stuff in the reflection?
When he said Green Trivia and had that little pause and deviation where for a second it sounded like That Guy Who Shouts Rodney wasn't gonna appear, my heart sank, but thankfully the world can always depend on That Guy Who Shouts Rodney to save the day. Well done boys.
I always think of the girl from rilo Kiley shouting "he touched my breast" about the guy chasing them and his defense when he's being arrested is "what breasts she doesn't have any" whenever I think about the wizard. What a weird movie about video games where several people should be in prison for weird sex stuff just like pixels
In a deleted scene, a military meeting was held to discuss the origins of the Pixels aka hardlight. NASA astronomers concluded that the aliens were harvesting B-type stars (which give off blue-white light) for the material needed to create their invading video game army. This led to the film's working title being "Blue Harvest", which coincidentally is also the original working title for "Star Wars" in 1977.
"The King of Queens industrial complex, the absolute slob of a man with a beautiful love interest" You've just described the reality of almost all Bulgarian marriages and dating scene
Deep drilling is actually really specialized, and it WOULD in fact be easier to teach those guys to survive in space and do their very specialized jobs than it would be to teach astronauts to drill. Whats funny to me about this is that Ben Affleck pointed this out on the commentary for Armageddon, and people continue to assume that drilling oil wells is just something any idiot can do.
I lost a bet with a friend and had to go watch this movie in theaters alone and write a 2 page paper on it. And for the first time ever, I was literally the only person in the entire theater (though to be fair it was like frame 3 on a weekend matine showing)
I worked on this movie doing the conversion of 2D to 3D(which was being done to everything during this time. glad that phase isnt as big anymore). I'm sorry to report I am not in jail. While it was fun to work on it, I'm glad I only experienced it without sound and completely out of order. We Mystery Science Theater 3000'd the crap out of this during production knowing it was probably going to be a cash grab.
The Lady Lisa character is very reminiscent of the NES game Athena, considered one of the 20 worst games ever released on the NES. Athena is unique in that it was not only the first licensed game to feature nudity on the cover and in the game, but also featured the first flying power up in a game, which was quickly copied into Super Mario 3, and has since become a staple of Mario games. Many earlier games had flying main characters, but those characters always fly as a base ability, and those games were coded around that style of gameplay. The reason such a power up hadn't been done at the time is that its completely game breaking, as most enemies are ground based, and easily bypassed with the power up, and a new gameplay style requires a lot of additional coding work, for something that is not a core feature of the game, and the player might not even use. The image of the Lady Lisa game in the movie is very similar to the title screen of Athena, as that game also features a pixilated close up of the main character winking at the player.
Additionally, the character of Athena in the original Japanese version of the NES game sported a red bikini, a spiked backpack, and blue hair. Athena's trademark blue hair is why the working title of the game during its development was Blue Harvest, which incidentally was also the working title for Star Wars Episode 6: Return of the Jedi.
It's crazy that Jane Krokowski has a line in 30 Rock about "playing Kevin Kames' wife who he's tired of sleeping with" which is very funny and very sad that she ended up playing that very part...
10:10 On top of that... you're trying to tell me that a bunch of competitive jacked lads aren't going to understand how GAMES WORK? I fucking guarantee you that the real-life equivalents of those soldiers are hardcore gamers.
This CoG episode has made me want to rewatch the MovieBob review of Pixels from when it came out, where he just eviscerates it for 10 minutes straight.
In highschool physics a kid sat next to me and he did NOTHING BUT TALK ABOUT THIS FUCKING MOVIE AND DRAW THE SHIT ON HIS NOTEBOOK AND TALK ABOUT HOW FUNNY ADAM SANDLER IS AND THAT KEVIN JAMES SHOULD REALLY BE PRESIDENT IN REAL LIFE ONLY REASON I HATED THAT CLASS.
Oh they can talk about way worse Doctor Who movies than that.. Dr. Who and The Daleks (1965, and yes Doctor is written in the abbreviated form in the title) and, Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (1966, and would make more sense as it actually has Bernard Cribbins in it)
@@deadpool3982 I love both of those films so much so would definitely enjoy seeing these be talked about as well!! Maybe we could be lucky and get all three movies!
@@lewismoorcroft99 well if we can get all 3 im down, but if we can only get one video it has to be the 60s ones, they hit that so bad it’s good line perfectly
The crib full of baby qberts just confirms a whole lot of things they should not have confirmed. They should’ve done everything in their power not to remind me that lady was qbert after Sandler’s one observation about it
One thing I learned from this upload? The release dates for video games, in Australia, seems to be 5-7 years behind the ones in North America. So, if you can get past the flora and fauna that all want to kill you and sidestep the vegimite, you still stand to get flattened by this. Damn! The Land Down Under’s metal AF.
Never change, you two. Ben, Lawrence, keep these two amazing gents in line and thanks for doing the HARD work, so James and Mason can look good and be the funny gents they are.
I know this movie gets trashed a lot….. and I mean a lot 😂 But it’s honestly one of the few movies I can sit with my younger cousin and enjoy. He’s autistic and I used to watch him quite a bit. Besides building Legos and talking about Superheroes, this movie would make him laugh and smile. He just absolutely loves it. I do understand why people would hate on it…. But I can sit there and watch it, without being angry 😆 So that’s a positive haha. I only discovered this channel about a year ago and really love what you guys do. Pretty sure I’ve laughed during every video. The quick wit is 🔥 and my only complaint is that I wish the vids were longer. That’s not really a complaint, I just enjoy your guy’s content 😊 Take care.
Y’all mentioned the whole joke about a kid platinuming Dark Souls and that’s the biggest thing that bugs me about the movie, it’s written as if video games haven’t evolved passed anything from 1985. It’s as if they think “new” video games are just moving a character around in a 3D environment and nothing happens or something, I can’t wrap my head around it because I’m not 50 I guess lmao
Here's a bit of Green Trivia: One year after this movie, the Kamen Rider Heisei Generations movie was released, which also had a scene in which the heroes fight an evil live-action Pac Man. The main difference being that Pac Man is actually part of the main plot and not just one scene, and that movie is actually really good
Dan Ackroyd is in the opening scene at the game competition, and never appears again. Later, after they defeated Centipede, they're at a bar and the characters pull out a bottle of Crystal Head vodka
Billy mitchell didnt simply glitch the game to cheat, he used an arcade machine that was moddified to give him an advantage and also his good mate from school was the judge and lied for him multiply times. He is straight up a cheater.
@@JohnSmith-yd5wq that has nothing to do with the past, but sure. That's new news for me. Was it in front of verified people out of curiosity? Because cheating on twitch live isn't exactly hard
Got to 7:23 and I paused to see if anyone else in the comments got as excited as I did at the Carly Rae Jepsen reference. I'm so happy that there seems to be a venn diagram of CRJ fans and Mr Sunday Movies viewers.
Representing 2015 with a snippet of arguably the greatest pop song of the 21st Century of arguably the 2nd greatest pop album of the 21st Century is god tier referencing and editing
So fun story: I actually knew someone who hated modern games because to him they were all “too easy” and he said “back when I was a kid games were actually challenging”. We never saw the eye to eye because I always said games like the assassins creed and god of war games can be challenging but he said that they are way too simple (no it was not a bit he did)
He does have a point. While modern games are technically more challenging with modern controllers(the amount of buttons, learning combos and systems of play) older games were more challenging with limited lives, no checkpoints, very limited saves(or no saves) games like contra, ghost n goblins, or even the original Mario games are more challenging than God of War or other modern games that essentially have infinite lives and no game overs. You can brute force your way through modern games(die at the boss? Just start over right at the boss fight) without players having to become almost experts in game play and enemy patterns. Old games you manage to make it to the last boss and you die then restart that whole level, get a gameover and you have to restart the whole game. To get through old games you basically had to have a modern speed runners mindset of learning attack patterns, optimal routes/strategies, different rng stuff as lots of games didn't always have the enemies pop in at the same time every time, and if the game gave you a password to get back to a certain level it was left to the player to write it down it wasn't automatic. Alot of Modern gamers would flip their shit if modern games were like that, imagine the arkham games were the I am the knight mode was the only mode, you die and restart the game or even a soul reaver where you die and while your progress isn't technically lost you restart at the beginning of the game. Tldr: modern games are technically more challenging, retro games were challenging in a completely different way
Somewhere, and I can’t confirm this, but I remember reading that Edgar Wright at one point was attached to direct this movie… what could of been, that could of been awesome
The best thing about this movie was that Mini dealerships had cute little Pacman ghost-themed cars sitting in the lot for a month or so. They got more smiles out of me than this entire movie.
If they hadn’t included footage from the movie itself I would have been entirely unconvinced James and Maso hadn’t just made this entire thing up as they went.
One day they should just do that; invent a film and see how long it takes for us to catch on
i liked this movie it was great fun this is a poor excuse for an upload its looking for problems that didnt exist total nonsense tied together with clips from a movie its just nothing content
@benayers8622 oh yes, the film that includes numerous plotholes, god awful comedy that is on the level that a 6 year old would make up on the spot, generally awkward writing, and incredibly unlikeable characters is actually good.
Clearly Peter Dinklage was in the midst of Game of Thrones boredom and was just like "I'm gonna go overboard with this and no one will stop me".
Adam Sandler asked "Yo wanna make a bunch of money fucking around for a couple months?" as he does to every single actor that he casts in his films. The exception being casting Katie Holmes in Jack and Jill to give her space to work on her escape from the cult of scientology and real-life-Patrick-Bateman Tom Cruise.
James is so old, he was around BEFORE Pac-Man was created!! Everyone point!
Don't do it!
@@mrsundaymovies too late
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James just straight up calling all those characters "unfuckable losers" was incredibly refreshing.
Why do they have to write anyone that's into nerd culture like that in films and TV
@MasterIceyy I think a good example of "nerdy" character who isn't like that at all is Ben Wyatt from Parks & Rec.
That part from 6:54 onwards is gold, crying with laughter
@@mommas_boys Aw man, don't say that. I've heard he's a really nice guy in real life.
That would be a great quote the for the front of the dvd case. 😂
Thanks Ben and Lawrence for reminding everyone that Christopher Columbus screwed up adapting the Percy Jackson books
I think the studio did most of the ruining and he was there for the paycheck
@@itayeldad3317 I think its a bit of both didn't he specifically push for an older cast because of his experiences working on Harry Potter? Which was a very odd choice.
It wasn't just him the studio did a lot too (they straight up ignored Uncle Rick)
and I believe mean Peter Jonson
@@theoneyednightwing8558agreed both messed up it was just a clusterfuck
Getting named by your friends Fire Hydrant McHose is the perfect example of kids being the most savage little monsters
I’d be devastated if my friends turned on me like that
@@masonclark531 turned a fire hose on you like that 😂😉
Lols it never ends well when someone comes up with their own nick name at school. One of the kids in my class wanted to be called 'Sniper' but we ended up calling him 'Snipper' instead. Good times.
My first job in the VFX industry was to work on this movie. We did part of the Centipede battle, and the Donkey Kong battle (which had a lot of it cut). Based on those sequences, I remember telling my close friends how hyped I was for it to come out... and then we saw the movie release and god, was I embarrassed. I wish I had a funny behind-the-scenes joke for this, but it was just kinda sad.
Yet ironically, you didn't do the ninjas fighting on the school bus? Who picked YOUR nickname... CentiMcKongPede?
@@sixdegreesofcrispybacon hahahah! damn... that's a good point. I have to question my whole online persona now 🤯
@@TheBusNinja I worked on some of the VFX for Die Another Day. So... you know... happens to the best of us. I feel you.
Perhaps the best VFX were really the friends we made along the way!?
@@sixdegreesofcrispybacon ah, greetings to a fellow vfx monkey! May you always remember to save, and your renders crash less often (I'd say never crash, but can't ask for too big of a miracle hah!)
As someone who was in the Army:
In the military there is a ton of time where theres not much going on. In those times, most guys are playing video games. They all are better at video games than Adam Sandler and all his friends.
And militaries are using video games to train people. They're gonna be way better and way more capable than someone who didn't even peak at 14.
They're literally using video game-style footage to recruit on this website, so yeah it is absolutely absurd that the military would be ignorant of it. I mean, pretty sure it's one of those things the the department of defense helped fund at some point. Didn't they provide some funding for COD or something? Or was that an urban legend?
@@dragontears the cod franchise is funded by the military, and many higher ups at activison have also held high up positions in the military (and vice versa). but also: basically every american movie that features weaponry is funded by the military. the long and short of it is that *most* media is actually propaganda, but a very large percentage of people believe they’re too smart for propos to work (no one is too smart for propo btw, that’s not how it works) so calling something propaganda is often treated as a derogatory even if it is factually accurate.
@@zeywop not calling you out but what's you're source on many Activision employees holding high positions in the military(I'm not even sure how"vice versa" could be true lol)?
Basic training in 94 we had a SNES in the barracks with a Rifle Marksmanship "game." It used an actual M16 rigged up as a light gun.
I’m shocked the guys didn’t mention the insane waste of money that is getting a stunt double to do the moonwalk for literally no reason
Honestly, the screentime for a stunt double is almost certainly less than a big-name actor. It was probably a savings.
Because 1980!
Definitely the studio not trying to play around with insurance companies. Probably not a petty move done for no reason
@@PangolinMontanari actors don't get paid by the scene, they would have already paid for the actors
How is that a waste of money?
Using Cary Rae Jepsen's Emotion, an absolutely incredible album and ridiculously underrated, as an indicator for 2015 was perfect.
Carlie Rae Jepsen >>> Taylor Swift imho
@@Army1601 But this is crazy
@@Army1601 I concur. We're sadly in the minority on this.
@@Army1601 I like a lot of Taylor Swift's songs, she gets more hate than she deserves, and writing off her music as basic or soulless would be hugely unfair. HOWEVER, I've never been disappointed by a Carly Rae Jepsen song, I think she's a technically better singer than Taylor, and the disparity in fame between two artists who by all rights should be in the same weight class is a damn shame.
Something in my gut tells me this was a Ben move.
me and my mom saw this in theatres when it came out and she started crying at the closet scene because my dad had just left her for a younger woman. this is all i remember from it. I have forgotten everything else
Damn. Did it work out for you guys?
@@camchase9059 for me and her, eventually, yeah. We're doing better than ever. Him, that's too long and tragic a story to tell on a video about le funni adam sandler film
@@dvmrtns you can’t tease us with a tragic backstory what is this? Rick and morty
Brutal i saw it at home and thought my experience was pretty bad
Hilarious
The moment where the original creator of Pac-Man tries communicating with the giant Pac-Man alien only for it to bite his hand off causing the guy to run away screaming for the military to kill it has haunted by dreams for years
That was the moment in the trailer that made me laugh
The part when Pacman said "it's Paccin Time!" then ate all the pellets was the greatest moment in any movie
It always felt so cruel to me
@@greenkoopa stop morbius came out ages ago just let it die
@@milliondollarmistake as a 36 year old man, I will keep doing it til it isn't funny to me. Also I couldn't stay awake during Morbius anyways 😂
I worked at a theater when this was out, and the number of people who came out demanding their money back was staggering. And they hadn’t even gotten to the Q-babies scene
Definitely a moment to remember
I know that movie theaters see very little profit from tickets anyway, but demanding your money back from people that had absolutely nothing to do with the creation of the film is just bizarre.
@@ToomanyFrancis always cracks me up. Like who is that much of an asshat to think I didn’t like this movie, give me my money back. Like what did you expect to be thinking when you walked out of Freddy Got Fingered. 😂
If you go to one of Adam Sandler's Happy Madison movies expecting more than the bare minimum effort, you're setting yourself up for disappointment. If you want to see Sandler in a good movie any time in the past twenty years, it's got to be one that he's just acting in. If it's from his production company, it's garbage.
I also worked at a theatre when this was out and I have no memory of this movie existing
James slowly slipping into insanity has lead us to this film
It's beautiful. 🤣
Someone does need to find Chris Colombus and just ask him.... Why?
The same thing could be said for Adam Sandler, exactly the same thing.
Fun fact: they were originally going to have Josh Gad have sex with Smurfette instead of the other character, and on set he would constantly talk about his "seed" so the working title for this movie was called "Blue Harvest"
Fucking hell
Gotta say, this one got me. Well done.
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This was a good one. I also hated reading all of it.
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There's actually kind of a clever idea in that the aliens would take the games as a declaration of war or violence. One of the most common criticisms of video games is their depiction and glamorization of violence. The moral of the story and ultimate climax could have been humans getting the aliens to understand their true meaning and message, by getting the aliens to play the games themselves and having fun with them. Wouldn't that be a great way to end a film like this, something uplifting and heartwarming? Or it could end with Qbert babies, I guess. Sure.
The biggest disappointment is how easily this would've been to pull off and how devastatingly they failed.
Weird that's exactly my reaction to the double space you put in your comment
I really wanted to like this movie. It was just a mess from beginning to end. The only upside is that the movie tie in merchandise allowed me to buy a Qbert plush that I still own.
@@lynx4082 noooo
@@oaf-77 did you imagine it was lady Lisa and impregnant it?
Why would anyone expect anything good from Sandler?
The ‘Unf&@kable Losers’, the repeating pauses, Maseau’s ‘Fireblaster’ story, the Carly Rae Jepsen reference.
An CoG Instant Classic!
Its a sad moment when you realise youre never going to be able to come up with a better nickname than Fire Hydrant McHose...
Fun fact: Kevin James from Pixels (2016) and Bill Pullman from Independence Day (1995) are the only two movie Presidents that have saved the world from space aliens.
What about Jack Nicholson from Mars Attacks (1996)
@2nd3rd1st Didn't he get vaporised?
@@jamstonjulian6947 Nah. he got pierced by a flag. But even if he did not, he definitely did not contribute to saving the world. It was all that one kid and his grandma.
Bill Pullman or Paxton?
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Paxton never played a President, I believe.
I was a background actor dressed as a Firefighter in this movie! I talked to Adam Sandler on set one day and he did not seem happy to be there lol
It's the video game movie that feels like it was written by the high school jocks who would bully you for saying you liked to play video games.
Who are also now totally big fans of the things you liked then and are totally MASSIVE nerds, haha.
I feel like it's even worse. It's made by the kids who would follow the jocks around and help them bully the smart /nerdy kids, but were themselves neither smart nor sporty. Gross little dorks who survived school by being rude clowns and creeps.
Basically a movie made by Booger (Revenge of the Nerds) and Peter Pettigrew.
Did those jocks ever exist anywhere except '80s movies? Every jock I know has always played video games. It's only the bitter incels in Hollywood who insist on writing jocks that way. The self-proclaimed "nerds" of the world are so much more misogynistic and hateful than the popular guys they write as villains.
@@amityislandchum How old are you? It's amazing how smugly purblind people can be.
@@amityislandchumhonestly i wouldnt say so, i lived in canada but the traditional 'jock' type guys were most of the time decent people, i was harassed by typical nerdy guys way more tbh
I completely forgot about this movie lol. The idea of the aliens using Elden Ring sounds horrifying, Malenia gonna be on the greatest kill streak ever until Let Me Solo Her shows up.
Or aliens using Bloodborne… oh, wait…
Fuck malenia, Fucking *kratos* could be out there
The billy Mitchell parody is actually pretty funny considering what’s gone on with him the past few years.
that was the joke. it's been well known for a long time. unsure how these idiots haven't heard if it.
@@kittysplodeI've played video games my entire life and I have no idea who Billy Mitchell is. Not that crazy that two people on a movie review channel don't know about whatever happened
1:43 it took less than 2 minutes for James to start bashing Ghostbusters… 😂
I can never forgive him for his opinions on that movie. It’s such a fatal flaw to have as a human being it’s like…why bother? Why bother existing? At least Mason knows what’s good.
@@MrGittz I suppose it’s each to their own… but the amount he goes on about it suggests he is protesting a little too much…
Honestly it's probably leftover annoyance from the backlash he got saying Ghostbusters 2016 was better than Ghostbusters 2 (an opinion I wholeheartedly disagree with)
@@kaizerkeller I can't imagine even thinking Ghostbusters 2016 (an actual dumpster fire) is better than Ghostbusters 2. James has some strange opinions.
@@TheDreamingJune Its not that bad. GB2 has the nostalgia going for it, as well as being almost tied with the cartoon show. And 2016 just wasted what is an alright story and effects with a whole lot of silly riffing.
I’m just gonna leave this here 😜
In Defence of - Ghostbusters (2016)
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Fire Hydrant Mchose is who we all secretly wish we were. Also the Lord of the Flies footage being put over the project falling apart was genius.
Love the part when Adam Sandler tries to get a woman arrested by the secret service because she didn't kiss him
no you dont
@@2nd3rd1st you're right I was lying
@@jamesgreen9480 People like you is why I have trust issues! If we can't trust people on the internet how can we trust our spouses and the government!
@@jamesgreen9480 I can't believe you went on the Internet to spread lies
@@munjee2 spreading misinformation is TIGHT!!
The small jump to Carly Rae Jepsen at 7:23 brought a light to my soul for a brief moment
Wonder if that was Ben or Lawrence. Feels like a quality ben thing to add
Run Away With Me is a real bop ruclips.net/video/TeccAtqd5K8/видео.html
@@lukemullins6185it HAS to be Ben
Emotion is a perfect Album
James’ utter contempt for the Ghostbusters movies and their fans never fails to please me
Glad to know the boys appreciate having Rodney guy around as much as the rest of us
what is that guy from?
@@kevingreenfield4815 the swamp
@@kevingreenfield4815
Australia swamp simulator
This was the first movie I saw where I realised that movies could be bad
@@mitchellsmith6390 First of all, so what if he was?
Secondly if he were 12 when this came out, he'd be 20 years old now, which isn't that unbelievable, is it?
"Like right now? Or as a child?"
@@mathiaswalker350 what did he say?
@@nick_j3831 I think it was something along the lines of: "what are you, 12?!"
Mine was the Nickelodeon's Avatar adaptation followed by X-Men Origins Wolverine. Back to back. I've never been the same since...
Years ago, I did film reviews and TV recaps for an Australian pop culture website. The first movie review I did - which I did for free because I was an idiot - was of this movie. In an email to me later, my editor pointed out how much I trashed the movie. She still liked the review, she was apparently just surprised by my hatred for this. But my argument is, how the hell could you not hate this?
Technically, it should have been called "Voxels"
Hi Ami! I didn't expect to see you here!
Finally, someone reviewing this film addresses Q-Bert holographic Lady Lisa love set up as the key initial point. Myself and all the possibly up to three other people waiting for this are vindicated.
Ackchyually Peter Dinklage's character is a clear knock at Billy Mitchell (15:58) who famously did cheat at Donkey Kong by playing on a modified arcade machine (which was prohibited under the Twin Galaxies' Donkey Kong rules) that instead of having the original four-way black joystick had a red, possibly eight-way joystick that would of given him a unfair advantage. Also he is a very bad person who has a habit of suing anyone who speak ill of him in anyway, a notable case being the cartoon Regular Show that features a big head parody.
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I know I'm really late to the game, but did anyone else notice that at about 13:34, you can see the weird robot head guy's reflection as he walks past the camera, and clearly see his prosthetic CGI stuff in the reflection?
"King of Queens industrial complex" is probably the greatest phrase I've heard in my life
When he said Green Trivia and had that little pause and deviation where for a second it sounded like That Guy Who Shouts Rodney wasn't gonna appear, my heart sank, but thankfully the world can always depend on That Guy Who Shouts Rodney to save the day. Well done boys.
The fact that Adam Sandler went from this to starring in Uncut Gems is unreal.
I love James being like “I’m gonna edit this out… who was it?” Makes me laugh so hard knowing that James found that so hilarious. 😂
Fun fact, Mario's overalls were originally blue, leading to the working title for this being Blue Harvest, as a nod to classic games.
The best version of Pixels is that one Futurama episode.
I always think of the girl from rilo Kiley shouting "he touched my breast" about the guy chasing them and his defense when he's being arrested is "what breasts she doesn't have any" whenever I think about the wizard. What a weird movie about video games where several people should be in prison for weird sex stuff just like pixels
Wait wait Rilo Kiley what?
[goes to IMDB]
oh my God I learned something.
@@MattMcIrvin sorry to spoil some green trivia for you
In a deleted scene, a military meeting was held to discuss the origins of the Pixels aka hardlight. NASA astronomers concluded that the aliens were harvesting B-type stars (which give off blue-white light) for the material needed to create their invading video game army. This led to the film's working title being "Blue Harvest", which coincidentally is also the original working title for "Star Wars" in 1977.
I woke up in an iffy mood, put this on, and now I’m laughing and in a great mood. Thanks for changing the start of my day from blah to yah!
Fire Hydrant McHose is the funniest name I've ever heard, now that's all I can think about
11:53 Bless James for saying “Awful incel s***” right after the word “incel” popped into my brain.
"The King of Queens industrial complex, the absolute slob of a man with a beautiful love interest"
You've just described the reality of almost all Bulgarian marriages and dating scene
What is a king of queens industrial complex? Also, RIP Bulgaria
The Centipede sequence and the Pac-Man driving through the streets were my favorite moments.
I think they are the only moments too.
Deep drilling is actually really specialized, and it WOULD in fact be easier to teach those guys to survive in space and do their very specialized jobs than it would be to teach astronauts to drill.
Whats funny to me about this is that Ben Affleck pointed this out on the commentary for Armageddon, and people continue to assume that drilling oil wells is just something any idiot can do.
I lost a bet with a friend and had to go watch this movie in theaters alone and write a 2 page paper on it. And for the first time ever, I was literally the only person in the entire theater (though to be fair it was like frame 3 on a weekend matine showing)
Your friends are cruel people
This film had targetted ads where Sandler said ‘hey Yogscast fans’ in the intro and nothing has ever turned me off a movie quicker than that
The further disconnected we get from Swamp Thing, the funnier the guy who screams Rodney becomes to me
Man-Thing.
Sometimes I actually hear him saying Rodney over and over when I'm trying to go to sleep,no joke I'm dead serious it's really annoying.
i thought i was getting annoyed with it a few weeks ago but gosh darn if it doesn't just crack me up every time he gets impaled
@@messyjetski2549 don't get me wrong it's funny but it sticks in my head all damn day especially when I try to go to sleep
@@Rich88James the movie they took the “Rodney” scenes from. They started the running gag in that review
I worked on this movie doing the conversion of 2D to 3D(which was being done to everything during this time. glad that phase isnt as big anymore). I'm sorry to report I am not in jail.
While it was fun to work on it, I'm glad I only experienced it without sound and completely out of order. We Mystery Science Theater 3000'd the crap out of this during production knowing it was probably going to be a cash grab.
I absolutely LOVE when these two both HATE something because they are relentless
12:45 - the Ninja also look like ‘Mini Ninjas’ from 2009.
The shot of Chris Pratt jumping over the counter when they mentioned Jumpman was an inspired choice
James declaring that he “likes Josh Gad” makes every opinion he holds suspect.
Maso, such an adorable child (8:20). I'm glad he kept his youthful looks.
My wife and I saw this really early in our relationship. It was probably our lowest point.
I'm surprised the movie didn't break you two up.
If your relationship could withstand this film, it can probably withstand anything, so congratulations.
The Lady Lisa character is very reminiscent of the NES game Athena, considered one of the 20 worst games ever released on the NES. Athena is unique in that it was not only the first licensed game to feature nudity on the cover and in the game, but also featured the first flying power up in a game, which was quickly copied into Super Mario 3, and has since become a staple of Mario games. Many earlier games had flying main characters, but those characters always fly as a base ability, and those games were coded around that style of gameplay. The reason such a power up hadn't been done at the time is that its completely game breaking, as most enemies are ground based, and easily bypassed with the power up, and a new gameplay style requires a lot of additional coding work, for something that is not a core feature of the game, and the player might not even use. The image of the Lady Lisa game in the movie is very similar to the title screen of Athena, as that game also features a pixilated close up of the main character winking at the player.
Additionally, the character of Athena in the original Japanese version of the NES game sported a red bikini, a spiked backpack, and blue hair. Athena's trademark blue hair is why the working title of the game during its development was Blue Harvest, which incidentally was also the working title for Star Wars Episode 6: Return of the Jedi.
It's crazy that Jane Krokowski has a line in 30 Rock about "playing Kevin Kames' wife who he's tired of sleeping with" which is very funny and very sad that she ended up playing that very part...
I genuinely screamed in delight (at my home alone) when Mason said "The King of Queens industrial complex", what magic
10:10 On top of that... you're trying to tell me that a bunch of competitive jacked lads aren't going to understand how GAMES WORK?
I fucking guarantee you that the real-life equivalents of those soldiers are hardcore gamers.
I love that the thing from 2015 is emotion by Carly Rae jepsen
Like one tone from Run Away With Me ruclips.net/video/TeccAtqd5K8/видео.html
I think "I've had a terrible day" is a good catchphrase but it fits James's vibe more.
The guy Peter Dinklage was kinda inspired by actually did cheat. Well he lied and is getting sued now I believe.
16:44 crazy how the first time a game character is actually digital is in a movie based on gaming 🤦🏽♂️😅
This CoG episode has made me want to rewatch the MovieBob review of Pixels from when it came out, where he just eviscerates it for 10 minutes straight.
Thank you so much for introducing me to MovieBob. :D
In highschool physics a kid sat next to me and he did NOTHING BUT TALK ABOUT THIS FUCKING MOVIE AND DRAW THE SHIT ON HIS NOTEBOOK AND TALK ABOUT HOW FUNNY ADAM SANDLER IS AND THAT KEVIN JAMES SHOULD REALLY BE PRESIDENT IN REAL LIFE ONLY REASON I HATED THAT CLASS.
I need a Doctor Who: The Movie Caravan of Garbage for the 60th please 🙏 love hearing You and Maso discuss Doctor Who
I need a resident evil movie and CGI movie for next Caravan of Garbage video You and Maso discuss resident evil
Oh they can talk about way worse Doctor Who movies than that..
Dr. Who and The Daleks (1965, and yes Doctor is written in the abbreviated form in the title) and,
Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (1966, and would make more sense as it actually has Bernard Cribbins in it)
Oh and his name is actually Dr. Who in them…and he’s human, and played by Peter Cushing
@@deadpool3982 I love both of those films so much so would definitely enjoy seeing these be talked about as well!! Maybe we could be lucky and get all three movies!
@@lewismoorcroft99 well if we can get all 3 im down, but if we can only get one video it has to be the 60s ones, they hit that so bad it’s good line perfectly
Adam Sandler's a cable installer? I figured with the orange outfit he was a convict.
The Billy Mitchell jabs the movie did are hilarious
The crib full of baby qberts just confirms a whole lot of things they should not have confirmed. They should’ve done everything in their power not to remind me that lady was qbert after Sandler’s one observation about it
Fun fact Tetris actually came out in 1985 but they changed the release date so that they could say it was the 25th anniversary in 2009.
One thing I learned from this upload? The release dates for video games, in Australia, seems to be 5-7 years behind the ones in North America. So, if you can get past the flora and fauna that all want to kill you and sidestep the vegimite, you still stand to get flattened by this. Damn! The Land Down Under’s metal AF.
Never change, you two. Ben, Lawrence, keep these two amazing gents in line and thanks for doing the HARD work, so James and Mason can look good and be the funny gents they are.
That horn intro to Run Away With Me gave me an instant shock
I know this movie gets trashed a lot….. and I mean a lot 😂 But it’s honestly one of the few movies I can sit with my younger cousin and enjoy. He’s autistic and I used to watch him quite a bit. Besides building Legos and talking about Superheroes, this movie would make him laugh and smile. He just absolutely loves it. I do understand why people would hate on it…. But I can sit there and watch it, without being angry 😆 So that’s a positive haha. I only discovered this channel about a year ago and really love what you guys do. Pretty sure I’ve laughed during every video. The quick wit is 🔥 and my only complaint is that I wish the vids were longer. That’s not really a complaint, I just enjoy your guy’s content 😊 Take care.
16:17 I’m surprised no AVGN clip played in the background
I haven't seen this film but I've watched the Futurama episode, so I've watched a shorter and better version
Amy, tend to the widow Pac-man.
Coming back to this in 2024, I forgot all about the guy who yells Rodney.
I know this is weird, but pixels was my first pg-13 movie. It’ll always hold a special place in my heart
I remember the first time I ate dogshit. Those were the days.
@@hellbenderdesign alright, you got me on that one🤣
Y’all mentioned the whole joke about a kid platinuming Dark Souls and that’s the biggest thing that bugs me about the movie, it’s written as if video games haven’t evolved passed anything from 1985. It’s as if they think “new” video games are just moving a character around in a 3D environment and nothing happens or something, I can’t wrap my head around it because I’m not 50 I guess lmao
Here's a bit of Green Trivia:
One year after this movie, the Kamen Rider Heisei Generations movie was released, which also had a scene in which the heroes fight an evil live-action Pac Man.
The main difference being that Pac Man is actually part of the main plot and not just one scene, and that movie is actually really good
Using Pac-Man as a villain in a crossover movie between the new, video game-themed protagonist and the previous, ghost-theme protagonist was perfect.
Oh yeah, that movie with Tenkuji Takeru. It's always cool to see another kamen ride fan in places you dont expect to see other kamen rider fans.
Dan Ackroyd is in the opening scene at the game competition, and never appears again. Later, after they defeated Centipede, they're at a bar and the characters pull out a bottle of Crystal Head vodka
Billy mitchell didnt simply glitch the game to cheat, he used an arcade machine that was moddified to give him an advantage and also his good mate from school was the judge and lied for him multiply times. He is straight up a cheater.
Wrong. There is a recent live video on a twitch stream of Mitchell getting to Pacman kill screen and 1 million on Kong.
@@JohnSmith-yd5wq that has nothing to do with the past, but sure. That's new news for me. Was it in front of verified people out of curiosity? Because cheating on twitch live isn't exactly hard
@@JohnSmith-yd5wq Never mind, just found the clip. I wouldnt call that proof of anything.
@@michaelwells9378 you wouldn't call a six hour live stream uncut proof?
@@michaelwells9378 prove it wrong
Got to 7:23 and I paused to see if anyone else in the comments got as excited as I did at the Carly Rae Jepsen reference. I'm so happy that there seems to be a venn diagram of CRJ fans and Mr Sunday Movies viewers.
This came out in 2015?! I thought it came out in 2010! Time is an illusion that I cannot see through!
I thought it came out just a couple of years ago.
Representing 2015 with a snippet of arguably the greatest pop song of the 21st Century of arguably the 2nd greatest pop album of the 21st Century is god tier referencing and editing
So fun story: I actually knew someone who hated modern games because to him they were all “too easy” and he said “back when I was a kid games were actually challenging”. We never saw the eye to eye because I always said games like the assassins creed and god of war games can be challenging but he said that they are way too simple (no it was not a bit he did)
He does have a point. While modern games are technically more challenging with modern controllers(the amount of buttons, learning combos and systems of play) older games were more challenging with limited lives, no checkpoints, very limited saves(or no saves) games like contra, ghost n goblins, or even the original Mario games are more challenging than God of War or other modern games that essentially have infinite lives and no game overs. You can brute force your way through modern games(die at the boss? Just start over right at the boss fight) without players having to become almost experts in game play and enemy patterns. Old games you manage to make it to the last boss and you die then restart that whole level, get a gameover and you have to restart the whole game. To get through old games you basically had to have a modern speed runners mindset of learning attack patterns, optimal routes/strategies, different rng stuff as lots of games didn't always have the enemies pop in at the same time every time, and if the game gave you a password to get back to a certain level it was left to the player to write it down it wasn't automatic. Alot of Modern gamers would flip their shit if modern games were like that, imagine the arkham games were the I am the knight mode was the only mode, you die and restart the game or even a soul reaver where you die and while your progress isn't technically lost you restart at the beginning of the game.
Tldr: modern games are technically more challenging, retro games were challenging in a completely different way
Fun fact - pixels are only 2D, in 3D they're called voxels. So even the title of this movie is a fucking lie.
Somewhere, and I can’t confirm this, but I remember reading that Edgar Wright at one point was attached to direct this movie… what could of been, that could of been awesome
"Fire Hydrant McHose", not "fart blaster?" Aussie kids be trying too hard.
fire hydrant mchose is wayyy funier than fart blaster
I look forward to Rodney every week and laugh way too hard every time
The best thing about this movie was that Mini dealerships had cute little Pacman ghost-themed cars sitting in the lot for a month or so. They got more smiles out of me than this entire movie.
Before Uncut Gems Adam Sandler had a track record of 1 good movie every 15 years.
That little "this is 2015" edit...perfection!!!!!!!! Give whichever editor did that a HUGE raise!!!
my god... thanks guys for making me relive this atrocious trauma that I spent years suppressing
This movie wasn't made for fans of the games. Like Big Bang Theory for sitcoms, it's for the people who laugh at the nerds.