Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I love movies and consider myself a moderate movie buff. When I heard about this game I knew I had to get my hands on it. It was sold out at all the Nordstrom and Toys R Us I visited which only increased my interest, and after a month I finally got a copy. After playing it with some friends, I still believe that it's a great idea, but this version of the idea could use some polish. The flaws I encountered: --The instructions are vague in some areas. We had to make a few things up as we went along. --The rules that are explained and the board itself contain some rules which seem silly and detract from the game. The inventors of the game clearly spent most of their time obsessing over the DVD itself and less on the gameplay. --The text on the buzz cards is silly. After reading one or two, no one bothered reading them anymore and we just looked to the end to see what the penalty or reward would be. --The questions on the cards are too easy. My friends are moderate moviegoers, yet when we all play in a group it's rare to get one of the questions on the cards wrong. Most of the clips are from movies of the last 10 to 20 years; they could easily increase the difficulty of the game by focusing the clips and trivia questions on some older movies. It would appeal to movie buffs more and also add some cinematic educational value. --They did not get movie clips from all the major studios. Only 20th Century Fox, Dreamworks, MGM, Columbia, and Universal granted right to clips from their movies. That leaves out the largest library, that of Warner Brothers, and also Paramount among the major studios. And independent films? Forget it. --Some of the film clips didn't play properly. They would just flash across the screen briefly and then the question would pop up, or we'd get stuck in a loop where the same question played over and over again no matter what we did. In those cases we had to pop the DVD out and start over. --The game will need updating soon. It appears that there are a few hundred chapters on the DVD, each being one question, and a couple hundred trivia cards with about 3 questions each. After playing it the second time, I could already tell that we'll run through all the questions really soon. The game does have a lot of promise. The all-play questions are great when you have a huge group of people, and everyone loves watching clips from their favorite movies. The trivia card questions are moderately interesting, but the DVD trivia questions are a riot. Some of the different types of questions include naming a movie when shown a scene in which a character is digitally erased, naming a movie title when shown two pictures that each represent one word from the title, being the first to guess a movie title as letters are gradually revealed Wheel-of-Fortune style, putting a list of four movies in chronological order, and answering a trivia question after watching a movie clip. In fact, it's nearly as fun (and some might argue that's it more enjoyable) to dispense with the board and game pieces and just put the DVD on when friends are over and just answer questions. All in all, this game will appeal most to the average moviegoer with a DVD player. For movie buffs or fairly knowledgeable moviegoers, the creators or someone else should iron out the kinks and come out with a more advanced version of this game. I'd buy that in a second.