39. Pixels (2015)
A movie adaptation of a divorced man’s Funko Pop collection, Pixels is a headache-inducing tentpole that doesn’t mine Generation X nostalgia so much as weaponizes it in a test of human endurance. Adam Sandler plays one of several grown-up arcade champions from Reagan’s America who are called by the President of the United States (Kevin James) to save the world from an alien invasion who’ve taken the form of classic video game monsters. Sandler in a “real-life” version of Space Invaders should be fun. But Pixels is so bad in its unfunny excess you might feel compelled to firebomb your local retro bar arcade in an act of vengeance.
