Originally Posted by monet View Post
This one is for you tableplay because of the genre we were discussing before.
Not my usual but this has to be the best movie ever made about a video game.
I don't enjoy the demonic themes but the movie is highly entertaining and unique.
I can do without the gay roommate as well but that's Hollywood.
The movie Rushmore (1998) is a favorite of mine and this is probably Jason Schwartzman's second best movie.
This movie was basically made for Michael Cera's style.
Personally, I never liked or played the video game.

Interesting Note is that Thomas Jane was one of the Vegan Police.
He was really good in the movie called "Stander" in 2003.
In 2004 he played in "The Punisher" if that is your sort of thing.

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)

I agree Monet, Scott Pilgrim was a very enjoyable movie (situational comedy I guess). Rushmore was off the charts good - one of the best dark comedies ever IMHO. I thought Schwartzman did a good job in Shopgirl with Steve Martin (I watched this one on a date back when it came out).
I think I remember watching Stander and I remember the Punisher well since I watched it more than once. I liked it, and, as far as I'm concerned, it was a tongue in cheek comedy (I doubt you would think differently about classifying it as such). You might remember the Punisher reboot which came out a few years later. The reboot (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450314/) was ultra-violent but I still liked it.

As far as other video game movies go, I remember Jon Gries (Laslo Hollyfeld) played the Vidiot in Joyticks (if you feel like watching a terrible movie this might be the ticket).

I guess we won't say Tron was the best movie about a video game since of course the movie pre-dates the video game (the Tron pinball machine from Stern is absolutely incredible).

If you haven't seen it, The King of Kong Fist Full of Quarters was a pretty funny video game movie IMHO. It looks like the full movie is available for free here: