I attempted to watch Pixels last night. I was having a low day, in terms of emotional and mental capacity, and I basically turned to the nearest streaming service and said, give me the dumbest thing you’ve got, it’s all I can handle. And lo, Adam Sandler’s computer game movie appeared, and I figured, well, there is zero thought required for this one, yeah?
Never underestimate the amount of thought that will go into films that make you this angry.
It’s not that this film is bad, it’s that it’s bad and it wastes every opportunity it has and it thoroughly reprehensible in its portrayal of…well, just about everyone. It’s all lazy stereotypes and bad dialogue and casting Sean Bean as a British soldier during an alien invasion and not bothering to kill him off.
Then there is the relentless misogyny, which gets turned all the way up to eleven by the end of the movie. Fuck that. Fuck it right to hell.
Pixels: officially a movie that I will never be low enough to enjoy.
