The Wizard Released on DVD

The Wired Game|Life Column points out that something momentous happened yesterday: The Wizard was released on DVD. From the post: "And I do not understand how any sane person couldn't be happy about this. Generally recognized even by the small children who saw it in 1989 as being a ninety-minute ad for Nintendo, The Wizard is quite frankly a masterpiece of our time. It starred Super Mario Bros. 3." From 1up's post on the release: "Appropriate celebrations include sending Wizard cards (depicting Fred Savage in all his pre-teen glory, natch), the decorating of the Wizard tree (ornaments should resemble characters from Super Mario 3), and wearing the Wizard celebratory garments (also known as the Nintendo Power Glove). I'm sure the lack of Blu-Ray release was simply an oversight, and not a monstrous snub by the higher-ups at Sony."

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Not a bad movie...

[7Prime]

Am I one of the only ones who thinks that it was actually a pretty decent film? Strip it of the Nintendo advertising, and it still is mostly about a few kids trying to help their autistic brother to a championship across the country, for the one thing he's a master at. It's based on "Tommy" by The Who, just replace "pinball wizard" with "video game wizard". Instead of being deaf, dumb, and blind, he's just deaf and dumb. Instead of his state being induced by having seen his mother having sex with some guy, he saw his twin sister die right in front of him. For a large scale drama, aimed at kids, it wasn't half bad at all. Only reason people couldn't take it very seriously is because of all the advertising, which was unfortunate.