probably the best way to really deconstruct this movie is to start from the final thing said before the credits: "Chase your dreams and do the impossible. Go on the quest of a lifetime, because the adventures that await you are priceless."
The core problem here is this comes after an hour and a half of footage that shows little to no actual "adventures", and makes the "quest of a lifetime" that Jay Bartlett goes on seem like ultimately nothing…
The movie begins with a Damien Echols quote. This is followed by a surface level contemplation on what nostalgia means, and how media like video games can bring us a sense of nostalgia. then the movie pretty much takes 45 minutes to have the president/CEO of the video game grading company defend his business of shoving overpriced deadstock games into permanent hermetically sealed shells.
As triumphant orchestral music plays, a dorky Tim and Eric extra who refers to himself as…
It blew my fucking mind as a kid when they said "play well" before the ball game scene because you know, Lego is short for Leg Godt, which in Danish means "play well"
what i'm saying is I've always been a loser
100% decent as a doc, but it felt kinda lacking in what it covered. Very self-congratulatory to an extent, a dearth of viewpoints from anyone other than the same few people, and not much of a better look at contemporary queer punk stuff. Like other people said, the lack of Laura Jane Grace or GLOSS was pretty jarring.
Also like, the anecdote about getting kicked from a bar for wearing swastikas? Dude, you deserved it lmao. That is some Sex Pistols type "I don't really actually care about ideology or optics and want to be an edgelord for no good reason" crap
