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The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 105: Tetris (2023)
🕑 Added 2024-09-09 22:02:23 +0000 UTCContinuing along our path of video game related movies, we come to last year's Apple TV retelling of the story of Tetris and its makers. Join us as we dig through the true history of the game, pick apart the extremely Hollywood-ized additions to the story, and muse about our own histories with Tetris.
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 105: Tetris (2023)
(00:00:13) - Intro.
(00:03:48) - A second Robert Maxwell reference has hit the Watchcast.
(00:07:50) - Let's talk about our histories with Tetris, and dive into some licensing history.
(00:12:40) - A certain ongoing lawsuit, and a little bit on the folks involved in this production.
(00:17:44) - Getting into the extremely hasty intro to this story.
(00:28:20) - Running down some of the real world figures and their portrayals here.
(00:40:40) - Break!
(00:41:12) - We're back, and it's time to start picking apart licensing rights.
(00:51:22) - The cheesy (but delightful) Game Boy unveiling.
(01:06:37) - Henk's Moscow adventure begins.
(01:18:01) - The real negotiations begin.
(01:29:14) - Henk and Alexei bond.
(01:34:45) - Is Henk about to lose everything? No, because there'd be no movie otherwise.
(01:40:41) - Donald Kaufman's Tetris.
(01:47:56) - The aftermath (and some loose talk about the Tetris movie we ALMOST got).
(01:55:24) - Final thoughts.
(01:58:22) - Talking about our film for next week: Cloak & Dagger!
(02:02:32) - Outro.
Comments
Regular Viewer Bunty Hoven
When it comes to Tetris, I always recommend watching the BBC documentary “Tetris: From Russia With Love”. It’s on YouTube: https://youtu.be/6ohCy4ktA5w
csl316
Nextlander manifesting 4k releases and Black and White updates, Dan Ryckert playing Mister Mosquito and now it's coming to PSN. Can I interest you guys in a Vagrant Story stream...?
Thom Konan
Taron Egerton was honestly incredible in Black Bird and Rocketman. Outstanding actor when given the right material.
LandonVanBus
This movie gave me an idea. You guys should do a spy movie month just to watch Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
Michael Polston
You guys totally should have done this movie in the last week of the month, and had it lead directly into a Cold War Horror month for October. Or just Cold War, because the actual cold war was scary enough for Halloween.
DrewDrew
He was actually recently in something I thought the crew might mention, Andor.
DrewDrew
I think the description of the gameboy scene, cheesy but delightful sums up my feelings for the movie as a whole. I think it's a very Hollywood adaptation but you end up feeling like the people making it have enough respect for the real world events but also know they're making some very silly choices. Also surprised to hear Alex doesn't really like Taron Edgerton. I love him if not just for Rocketman which I think is underrated.
neuroflare
The Howard Lincoln actor threw me for a loop, literally haven't seen that guy since the British version of Coupling was airing
