NYCsOwnPiTO

I liked the concept especially the idea of it being from a 90s AIM IBM computer period piece. However as intriguing as the concept was it still couldn't make up for the terrible acting and lack of authenticity in the dialogue. "I don't wanna play, I'm logging off" then 1 phone call later of asking without persistent persuasion player 2 is back in camera convinced to play again and all it took was a "I need closure please"? No way. Then when player 2 comes back all of a sudden he wants to be there. No more mention of work. Also I would like to mention that actors nowadays who don't look old enough to have experienced the AIM era themselves couldn't possibly capture the authenticity of the time. In one scene he says something like "it's not voice activated... that would be impossible" almost like he wanted to say "it's 1995 we don't have voice activation yet but we will have it in 2025". It wasn't necessary to put so much emphasis on "it can't be voice activated". Felt like he was trying to convince us that it was 1995. The scenery, software, and hardware already told us what time period it was. No need for convincing. Could've been a 5 or 6 but acting dropped it to a 3 or 4. I gave it 4 because the game did look like something we played at that time.

To put that in context 3 out of 4 stars is the same rating the movie "Nope" got. Ever since my boy Ebert passed I don't think we can put any credibility on his successors. Anyway I wouldn't call this movie great. It doesn't advertise as a dark comedy and I hate dark comedy's... either give me dark or give me comedy but don't give me both because if I'm in the mood for one I'm surely not in the mood for the other. Call me an extremist but it is what it is. Storyline was okay, aesthetically it was decent sometimes even really good, but lacked common sense completely and the acting was super dry. Bunch of nobody's doing something that has been done plenty. IT and Terrifier set a bar for killer clowns that shouldn't be attempted to be reached unless you have some NBA level hops...

The reason I say this guy must have a lot of friends on Instagram is because I don't understand how this movie has a six-star rating on IMDb when it is a terrible movie. It had no beginning; it had no ending. It didn't even have a story. It was just a complete run-on of a movie, absolutely horrible. We don't know why the camera issue was happening. There was no significance to it. We don't know why the OCD thing was mentioned. All we know is this guy in the woods is in a cabin. They also had one of the characters make a brief appearance, and she was out of the story again within two minutes. I don't even know the significance of that, and the ending of the movie was probably one of the worst endings I've ever seen; it just randomly stops out of nowhere.