DeepFun.com
Bernie DeKoven
April 2008
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What's the name of that movie? The one with a Native
American, or maybe a Hawaiian. By a river, I think,
or a lake or a stream of some sort? Oh, you know
what I mean. Yeah, that's it, Blue Crush. Wait, there's
another movie, also with a river or lake or stream,
and there was a wheelchair, I think, or was it a
crutch, no, a cane. Wait, could that be Cane River?
Is part or all of this conversation at all familiar?
Have you now or ever engaged someone in a similar
movie-related dialogue? Well, then, Cineplexity is,
without doubt, the very game you should be playing
at this very moment, verily.
We were actually amazed at how fun this
game turned out to be. Sure, it reminded us of the oft-touted,
trend-setting, Major FUN-award-winning, Out of the
Box Publishing easy-to-learn party game Apples to
Apples. As well it might, considering that it is
published by the aforementioned themselves. But,
you see, it looks so Apples-to-Apples-like with its
many cards and simple rules and calling out for 4
to 10 players and stuff, that you'd assume it's pretty
much another of those many Apples to Apples variants,
only about movies. But you'd be wrong. It's a different
game. Completely. Sure, there's a judge (cleverly
called the "director"). And the Director
doesn't actually play, because s/he has to do the,
um, judging. But that's it, Apples-to-Apples-similarity-wise.
In Apples to Apples everything is relative, the
actual degree of relativity determined by the judge.
In Cineplexity, you have to come up with a "real" answer
- a verifiable, actual movie including, beyond doubt,
the actual scene or props, or belonging to the specified
genre, whose characters have the certifiable characteristics
depicted by two, or perhaps three, of 504 the randomly
drawn Cineplexity cards. And, amazingly, there seems
always to be at least one movie that usually at least
one person knows that matches precisely.
Oh, the intensity. And oh, oh, the brain-wracking.
And, ah hah hah, the laughter.
Cineplexity. Surprisingly different. Not so surprisingly
fun.
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