So I went to go rent a movie a few nights ago and noticed that my video store has a section for "new to DVD" movies, which is typically old movies brought back into print by the film company in an attempt to capture the old following or so they can no longer support older formats.
There was one movie on this shelf that caught my attention immediately and nearly made me have a hot orgasm in my pants. Cloak. And. fucking. Dagger.
Cloak and Dagger is one of those cheesy old early 80s movies that played on people's patriotism and fear of Communist spies. In it, there are two little kids. One is named Davey and the other is some bitchy girl. They have this pedophile, Atari-fiend friend Morris (who owns a gaming store) that helps Davey fuel his obsession for Cloak and Dagger, which is a tabletop RPG and (from the sound of things) a popular franchise. It fuels Davey's imagination to levels that his father considers unhealthy and that he gets in trouble for.
Well, one day, Davey sees REAL spies kill someone that gives him... AN ATARI CARTRIDGE! The Atari cartridge has a special microchip in it with secret military information that can only be accessed by getting a certain score after so many levels. In a race for the cartridge, those spies kill a shitload of people and try to hunt Davey down to get the Atari game back. To make things more fun, while this is all going on, Davey is getting help from Jack Flack (or Black... they actually say both in the movie!!), his childhood imaginary hero and model USA international spy.
If you've never seen this movie, I would totally recommend that you do at least once. It's extremely cheesy, and there's plenty of product placement, but it's a great gaming/nerd/spy movie all the same.
