What's the Legend? Imagine Tron, but much more shady and evil. The story goes that in 1981 an arcade game was released in several locations across Portland, Oregon, said to induce strange symptoms in people who played it for too long. These included amnesia, insomnia, night terrors and an aversion to video games in general, with one player reputedly going on to become an anti-games activist. Not much is known about the game itself, but it's said to be some sort of Asteroids-esque puzzle-solving shooter. Or something. The government's favourite mythical task force, the 'men in black', were said to visit the machines periodically to glean data from them, before one day the arcades opened and all of the Polybius arcade cabinets had mysteriously disappeared. What's the Movie? A couple of young nerds play the game in 1981 and experience all the side effects until the game and the mysterious men in black disappear. A few years later the games reappear and the boys, now young men, set out to solve the mystery of Polybius once and for all. Dun dun dun. From there, the answer to the mystery is as batsh*t crazy as the screenwriter wishes to make it.
Cinephile since 1993, aged 4, when he saw his very first film in the cinema - Jurassic Park - which is also evidence of damn fine parenting. World champion at Six Degrees of Separation. Lender of DVDs to cheap mates. Connoisseur of Marvel Comics and its Cinematic Universe.
