Tetris:

I got a free subscription to Amazon Prime when I bought the new Xenoblade X game, so I went ahead and tried out a lot of movies and tv shows.  There were many decent movies -- Shadow, The boys in the boat, Gladiator II, My Way, The Battle at Lake Chanjian, (Napoleon was positively bad).  Masters of the Air was a decent tv series.  I'm glad to hear Americans were trying to hit military targets with their bomber raids, unlike the Brits.  But only one work of art was a masterpiece -- Tetris.

Tetris is the true story of how various companies vied for the licensing rights of a crazily addictive and simple game a programmer came up with in his spare time in the Soviet Union.  The underdog company, Bulletproof Software, is the only honest person in the bunch, which makes for a very relatable hero.  This random fellow goes to the USSR to conduct business and ends up in a somewhat James Bond like scenario of action and intrigue, all the while living in Japan and married to a Japanese wife with Japanese kids who speak Japanese and wear kimonos during the movie.  I can't imagine a movie more made for me -- Pro-Russian, Pro-Japanese, Pro-Gaming, Pro-Honesty.  It has it all.  It's one of the funniest movies I've seen, and it's all the more humorous because it's a true story.  This all really happened, or close enough.  To think such insane things were happening over a game about falling blocks, it boggles the mind.

At this point I feel like this Tetris movie is going to end up being the better part of the purchase and Xenoblade X is going to be the bonus material.  Tetris enters my movie hall of fame, unlike all the other, much higher budget films.

I have so many games to play they're falling out of my ears, but I also still have a long life ahead so I'll get to them all eventually.  Someday Xenoblade X will come in handy.