Jeff Ervine

I can't even hardly find the words to express how amazing this game is. The music, the story, the visuals, the detail, the emotion, just an undeniable work of art. Reminds me of old lucasarts point and clicks, in that yes its only a few hours long if you speedrun it, but I could spend dozens and dozens of hours just wandering around and taking it all in. This should be an example of what a game can really be. Best game I've played in years.

Sure, its not perfect. Sure, they could have done this or that a little better. Sure it gets boring after a while. THE IMPORTANT THING is that a whole team of people came together to make an open world game about BEING A SHARK. I have to take off my cap and salute these people. This world has enough first person shooters and assassins creed games, I think we should all be able to agree that its time to start thinking outside of the box. This game does just that. There is no cooler feeling than lurking around near the bottom, suddenly getting scared from a sound or something, but realizing YOU the SHARK are the very thing that you are afraid of. You are the scary shark at the bottom. You are badass. You make the rules. Be the shark. This may be the beginning of a new game genre altogether. I am all in.

Bo Burnham's "Inside".. A ridiculously talented young comedian gives us an honest 'Pink Floydian' look at the current state of humanity itself and the horrors of the internet, while peeling back all the subsequent brain issues that people in their 30s deal with now from being raised up in that older, simpler world, but currently living in the age of instantaneous information.. Forever caught somewhere in between. Its not always 'comedy', and its definitely not Pink Floyd.. However, I think it's brilliant all on its own. A contemporary classic, usually funny but more often poignant. A lot of the music definitely sounds like Weird Al got hired as the new singer for Depeche Mode, but on that note, Weird Al taught us early on to LISTEN CLOSELY to the lyrics, and I must say this kid's lyrics are just as hilarious and absurd as they are observant and precise. The only music-heavy movie I've ever seen that gave me the exact same feeling after it was done, was "The Wall." We watch a wonderful mind, trapped in a vacuum with nothing but a camera, some keyboards, and a few lights, slowly but surely deteriorate into madness; all the while somehow managing to flourish and hatch these perfectly accurate 'comedic' perspectives on the world, whether we like it or not. I don't toss the word 'genius' around lightly, but I have to say that Bo really hit a lot of the checkpoints for this project. I've never seen anything like it. I give it 101%. That's an A+.

I think this movie is getting a lot of heat because the beginning is clunky as hell. The critics are missing the point of this movie. It's about drugs, homelessness, addiction, and mental illness, its not supposed to be a sci-fi masterpiece. It's about understanding how a confused mind works, and what it feels like to never really be sure of whats real. Once I got past the beginning, and once the two leads have more time together with longer dialogues, it really does start to come together. By the end I was delighted that the movie actually DOES have a very strong story, and a very strong message if you can untangle it even the slightest bit. It's very simple. I do recommend this movie, give it a go.