To me, this movie is perfection.
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... View MoreThis movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.
... View MoreThe story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
... View MoreLoved seasons 1 and 2. They were very entertaining and there is nothing that I've found that quite resembles VGHS. Season 3 was horrible. The writers deviated from the formula too much and seemed to just give up. I would recommend making a 4th season if and only if it mimics the creative and fun construct of seasons 1 and 2.Ten lines of text in order to publish?Really?Seems strange.Maybe this will work.Guess we'll find out.
... View MoreEach season is so dramatically different from the other, its as if you're watching 3 separate shows. The first season: It's immediately clear this show was created by youtubers. It's funny, irreverent, yet lacking the capability to deal with real substance. The second season: It contains all the humor and quirk that made the first season enjoyable to watch, yet there are issues delicately woven in. Relationships, parents, and friendship are explored, without the show feeling contrived or fake. Personally, this is my favorite season. The third season: I never would have thought in a million years that a show titled Video Game High School could ever carry so much emotional weight. It's character-driven story line is poignantly realistic, yet I feel remorse over what the show use to be. I watched the first and second seasons because they were fun. They were funny, but not How-I- Met-Your-Mother funny, with one liners and punchlines. It was the kind of fun everyone has experienced, the casual yet incomparable fun with friends that makes one forget life exists outside of that moment. However this feeling is absent in the third season. The fate of the characters doesn't seem so concrete and certain. Maybe things don't turn out alright. Maybe they never will. The characters fall prey to real- world issues. And while these issues are explored fantastically, I still find myself missing when I could sit down, turn on the TV, and know I was in for a barrel of laughs.
... View MoreOkay... so where to begin? This show is awesome. I couldn't believe this network show also came in seasons - first time I watched it I thought it was a pure direct-to-DVD movie. Can't believe it's a show that got renewed to season 3! Figure it got widespread audience acclaim. Not surprising. Somethings I'd like to point out: 1. This show displays a world where gaming is the way of education. This is not exactly the world that *our* society would agree with, though I gotta admit; this is a pretty good alternative way to settle wars and conflicts(the first one being the one-on-one between two best warriors). 2. This show's about the games, and the bulkhead concentrated on the FPS - where the protagonists Brian and Jenny are most specializes in - and it somehow follows a Call of Duty cliché, where all the other minor ally characters can be killed off, and the protagonists always stay alive. 3. The emblems of each character is precise: BrianD the sharpshooter, Jenny Matrix the champion, Ki Swan the brawler, Ted Wong the racer, Mary Matrix the coach, and Law the professional. 4. Clearly the chemistry between Brian and Jenny were brought beyond the screen, as they dated and married in real life - before the second season aired! They were so young, and my best wishes to them. 5. Wonder how much military support - or any support - Freddie Wong and others got. Apparently this much shooting scenes require extensive military training, the drifting races requires driving skills, and Mortal Kombat-style brawling requires martial arts trainings and one heck of a Kung Fu fight choreography. And where did they get those awesome guns and gears? I want some... XDDD 6. Special effects are also one of the marvels of this show. The blue- and-red "comfirmed hit" effect, the heads-up display on the cars' windshield, and the fire-and-ice effect in brawling games? Can't believe they only did that in under $70,000. Take that, Hollywood. 7. One of the show's creator, Brian Firenzi, plays a major role in the show as its on-and-off antagonist. There's no bad words from me about his acting skills - his character is both annoying and amusing. Wonder what would he become in season three. Speaking of which... 8. This show is super awesome. I'll give it 20 stars if available. But when will season three be up in the air?!?
... View MoreI've been a gamer for a long time and just recently found out about this show from a friend and while I didn't have much faith I ended up enjoying this much more than I expected.For starters the production values are actually really good. Let's not forget that this is a web series that can be seen for free on youtube yet in some areas it feels like it has the same production values as most comedies from big TV corporations. The action scenes in particular are really well made, which isn't surprising considering Freddie Wong is in the production team (people who know his youtube videos should know what to expect). I know a lot of people that are always skeptical about web shows so if you are one of them be assured that this feels like an actual show and not some kids with a camera shooting something in their house. Most of the actors are decent, you won't see any award winning performances here but they seem to be on par with most "sitcoms". The humor is rather unique. Personally I like it but I can see how other people might not. A lot of the jokes rely on the "so bad it's good" formula because of how over the top, stupid or just random they can be, so if you are looking for a comedy where the humor is based on truly clever writing this might not be for you. But as long as you don't take it that seriously it's actually fun (IMO). That's not to say that all jokes are bad, there are constant nods and cameos from the gaming world, some of them really clever which leads me to the biggest reason I enjoy VGH: It feels like it was made from gamers for gamers. Be it some of the gags/jokes, situations, cameos, hints or plot points, you can simply tell this show was made by people that actually enjoy videogames. And that's something that I can really appreciate, specially in a medium where everything gaming (or geeky) related is mostly shown using the most generic of stereotypes (big bang theory would be a good example)
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