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The jump cuts were quick but never annoying or sick-inducing,

I remember the sequence of shots you're referencing, where like he's at home, then a party.. then a restaurant etc... back to back to back.

I think that was done to illustrate him spacing out at those events, because his mind was on ramona. That's how he was experiencing those events. Like he'd just suddenly appear at a party, beucase he didn't really remember going there, since he was thinking about her. (or when he just thumbing one note on his guitar during their practice)

I did like the films many references it's nice to see that as a gamer. I was thinking about posting here the different games they did.

Here's a starting list:

1.) Clash At Demonhead (NES game, I liked it, but strange and difficult)
2.) Mario (with the sound of the new life he got when he died to Gideon.. reminded me of that).
3,)Double Dragon (The music battle when the twins created those two dragons, reminded me of that instantly)
4.) Mortal Combat (The Finish Him)
5.) Sonic (With the coins that kept popping out, also reminded me of arcade games in general all the coins you put into them)
6.) Pac man (obvious.. he talks about him plenty of times)
7.) DDR (with the whole Ninja Ninja Revolution game)

Those are what I caught and I know there has to be many others but those are the ones off hand that i remember catching... I only saw the movie once. If anyone caught others be sweet to hear it.

I personally liked the ending, I liked how at the end verse Nega Scott (aka evil scott) it wasn't a fight they had but a talk. That was much better than just giving us another fight, which is what everyone expected.

I don't mind the open ended ending of Scott and Ramona just walking off together to start a life.

The other thing I appreciate was the refreshing style it was very unorthodox, and just that alone, regardless the content of the film, it was nice to have that change of pace and tempo.... really rejuvenating.

What's with the age cut off... , and I'm glad you liked it. 30 you can't see this... 19 forget it. I honestly think the age range is huge if you don't get the gaming references as a kid you'd like the fight scenes and the crazy Asian chick. I think a 15 yo, would enjoy it. I bet you guys caught a lot of gaming references so I'm curious what you can add to that list.

Hey, I'm 22 years old, and like i said I own and have played Clash at Demonhead many years ago as kid. Bob-omb that'd be mario.. the little bad guys... I played Mr. Bomberman as well, but i don't think there was anything called Bob-ombs in that game.

If i looked up that, i'd have looked up more. I haven't looked up any of the game references...

I know the pee bar is something, but i can't put my finger on what game it would come from.

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That was supposed to be River City Ransom. Plus, Sonic was rings, and they didn't come from destroyed enemies.

That's sad to miss that... Since it's one of my all time favorite multi-player nintendo games.

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Honestly, the way you talk, when you clearly know nothing...your words do not obfuscate your ignorance, no matter how hard you try.

I looked it up and i was right, that was the name of the little bomb guys in Mario. So i don't understand your comment.

Also my references were done off my childhood memories, that's why they're not perfect. I am disappointed in not catching that river city ransom one. That's too bad.

My friend guessed Sims, as well for the Pee bar, but i wasn't sure.

In the spirit of this list, I'll post up another one, and i'll keep editing this one, to compile the list. If you can refrain from just looking them all up, be more fun to post one's we caught.
The format is as follows. Name of the game, references in movie to the game, and a list of names that showed the clues, the order of the names listed correspond to the order of the reference noticed. So # 2 (since it goes Snow, Jeebus) shows Snow heard a 1 up sound that sounded like mario, and Jeebus pointed out the band name reference. If there is x(some integer) next to a name, then they provided that many clues in a row for that reference, see #9.

1.) Clash At Demonhead (NES game, I liked it, but strange and difficult) Snow
2.) Mario (with the sound of the new life he got when he died to Gideon.. reminded me of that, as Jeebus said Sex-Bob-omb referenced the little bomb enemies). Snow, Jeebus
3,)Double Dragon (The music battle when the twins created those two dragons, reminded me of that instantly) Snow
4.) Mortal Combat (The Finish Him) Snow
5.) River City Ransom (With the coins that kept popping out, also reminded me of arcade games in general all the coins you put into them.) UsaSatsui
6.) Pac man (obvious.. he talks about him plenty of times) Snow
7.) DDR (with the whole Ninja Ninja Revolution game) Snow
8.) Sims (The pee bar) UsaSatsui
9.) Zelda (Had Zelda music, and Gideon had a triforce necklace, ramona had a triforce chip, and Neil was playing Link to the past, Faerie Fountain music during dream sequence)Snow, ThunderHorsex3 Jeebus
10.) Crash 'n the boys street challenge (crash and the boys in the movie) Thunderhorse

There was a zelda song playing at one point I remember now. I'll go ahead an add them.

There is plenty of enjoyment value outside the game references in this film. I know Usa, I'm compiling this to see what we caught. This is a gaming forum I imagine we'll get pretty close to all of them, and maybe even have a clue or 2 that isn't on a particular sites list, which would be sweet.