The Game is Spyware!

I was going to review another PS2 game, probibly Odin Sphere for it's most awesome animation, or Silent Hill: Origins, for it's utter stupidity overall. But then I got wrapped up in Gay Pride, which was insanely awesome in every way imaginable - and I only got to go to the parade, none of the other events of pride week.

- And I was about to write about it, but then I turned on the Disney Channel, and was surprised to see that something halfway interesting was on. That was Spy Kids 3: Game Over, better known as Spy Kids 3D.
Since I've been thinking about video games more then usual, the movie had appeal to me. It's a parody of video games in general, with a bit of satire on gamer culture mixed in (which is probably going to become hopelessly outdated if Nintendo's Wii has anything to say about that).

The whole purpose of writing this stupid little mini-article was to point out probibly the greatest irony in the history of filmmaking.
Anyone who's played practically any early DOS CD-ROM game would know about the Full-Motion-Video craze. The incredible amount of storage space (compared to the then-standard 1.44Mb Floppy disk) suddenly available to the majority of consumers prompted game developers to create games with what was previously unavailable: videos. Then they went to extremes and made games based on videos only. Thus we begin Digital Pictures' entire lifespan. Digital Pictures made games like this; nothing more, nothing less. They had the coding abilities of chimpanzees. Unfortunately, they had the acting and directing abilities of chimps as well. Just like every other FMV game developer.

... I just wanted to point out the irony that Spy Kids 3 was a parody of FMV games. Damn, I'm long-winded.