It's a very good movie. I am a non markiplier fan who went to the movie because my markiplier fan friend wanted to see it. Holy shit was i glad I went with him, cause this movie is legitimately good.

After having had a week to reflect on it, I think the main problem was markiplier's acting. I think he must be an excellent director and producer, there's no reason he needs to act as well. The movie plays like a 2 hour cut scene in a good way. The bits of world building made me want more, made me want to play the game to seek it out. This was successful both as a stand-alone movie and as an advertisement for the game.

It punches above its budget as well imo. Aside from some janky visuals at the beginning, once you're inside the vehicle with Markiplier, it feels big. It doesn't feel like you are trapped in personal sized submarine the whole time at all.

What if the reason why videogame movies have been failing all this time is because they keep giving them to awful directors who just make them for german tax writeoffs.

Does it? Let's be honest, the biggest reason the movie succeeded was because Markiplier made it, one of the most popular gaming influencers. If it were a movie made by random people the internet doesn't know, it probably wouldn't have done too well. It's like saying the FNAF movie proves people want more 5/10 horror movies.

I'm glad it worked out for him and I do want to see more indie movies, but this isn't indicative of much.

"Hey this worked for him so let's all try beating this horse to death now." - movies now

I think this boils down to people want to see more passion projects.

That being said, I'm personally in the indie dev and somewhat in the indie film space and so I'm hugely biased and hope we see more things headed in this direction.

Iron Lung proves there's room for more indie ~~game~~ films

I’ve often dreamed of a Save the Date (visual novel by paperdino) film, because that game does some amazing exploration of what it means to interact with fiction.

Obviously it wasn't perfect; it had flaws. There are scenes I would have edited differently, some parts were murky, and some lines wholly redundant. But despite the flaws, it felt fresh. It didn't feel like Hollywood. Felt like a passion project.

I would like to see more movies with this level of scope.