How's the movie Gamer?
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In before "I liked it better when it was called 'The Running Man'"
I haven't had a chance to see it yet, but I want to, looks like stupid action fun that I could dig.
I haven't had a chance to see it yet, but I want to, looks like stupid action fun that I could dig.
The premise begs for smart satire a la Robocop. But I'm not getting my hopes up.
I saw it on Sunday. It was pretty good but nothing special. Basically the exact same premise of "Death Race" or "The Condemned". Unfortunately there was a more interesting movie lurking in the shadows about a real-life The Sims game. I found this much more interesting than just convicts shooting at each other and it was portrayed in this insane brightly colored slutty bubble gum pop manor. They should've done the movie about that (you control a living human in a live action reaction of The Sims) where somebody uses it to murder other Sims or something like that.
I saw a trailer for a new Bruce Willis flick like the sims. From what I can understand real humans control robots or avatars and somebody ends up killing the people off and Bruce Willis has to go out in the real world to find out who the killer is.
is Gerard Butler's character an actual human or was he created for the game?
ah, Ill probably give it a rental...
isnt that surrogates?
In Gamer there's two different "games" in the story. First came "Society" the Sims one where hired actors mimic the actions the player broadcasts to them. In the second war game one "Slayers", convicted killers on death row are injected with nanos that lets the player directly control their bodies against their will.
Just saw it. It was like two different movies. The first movie is an over-the-top actioner, with shit blowing up every couple seconds, people being blown apart constantly, and the camera changing so often I can't tell what the fuck is going on but it sure is violent.
The other movie has a decent sci-fi premise about poor people essentially selling their lives for the entertainment of those who don't have to work for a living. Imagine a huge naked guy stuck to his Hoveround, who pays to live as a hot chick, and picks up Milo Ventimiglia acting like a meth-addled robot so they can have kinky virtual sex. No, I'm not making that up. That's really in the movie.
They also had the dude from Dexter playing a megalomaniacal psychopath who talks like a cross between a Texan and a raver who's done too much MDMA.
Also "starring" Kyra Sedgwick John De Lancie, for some fucking reason. Oh, and Ludacris. If anyone cares.
The special effects were cool, and I enjoyed the futuristic computer interfaces, but it felt like they ran out of money about halfway through because all of a sudden everything is taking place in big, empty rooms with nothing interesting flashing at you.
If you like a mindless movie that's so over-the-top and ridiculous you can't help but laugh at it, go see Gamer.
The other movie has a decent sci-fi premise about poor people essentially selling their lives for the entertainment of those who don't have to work for a living. Imagine a huge naked guy stuck to his Hoveround, who pays to live as a hot chick, and picks up Milo Ventimiglia acting like a meth-addled robot so they can have kinky virtual sex. No, I'm not making that up. That's really in the movie.
They also had the dude from Dexter playing a megalomaniacal psychopath who talks like a cross between a Texan and a raver who's done too much MDMA.
Also "starring" Kyra Sedgwick John De Lancie, for some fucking reason. Oh, and Ludacris. If anyone cares.
The special effects were cool, and I enjoyed the futuristic computer interfaces, but it felt like they ran out of money about halfway through because all of a sudden everything is taking place in big, empty rooms with nothing interesting flashing at you.
If you like a mindless movie that's so over-the-top and ridiculous you can't help but laugh at it, go see Gamer.
Now see, I coulda gotten into that movie. But it would have to be done with the intent of saying something about that scenario rather than, what I suspect is the case, they just use it for cheap sensationalism without a single brain cell being activated.
For instance, does the guy (I assume it's a guy*) controlling the Milo-bot have any qualms about actually having sex with the fat, gross nerd controlling the ho-bot? Or am I giving everyone too much credit? Because it's a given that any ho-bot would be controlled by a fat, gross nerd.
The director at least could have some fun, say, instead of focusing on Milo-bot and ho-bot, giving us a "sex scene" with their respective fat-gross-nerd controllers. That might also empty out the theater, but as always my objective here is art rather than mere pandering to the mob.
*So maybe Milo-bot's controller isn't a guy. Given his legions of drooling fangirls, any female who decided to play this game would probably go right for the Milo-bot. (And I shudder to think of what they're doing with the Dean-bot and the Sam-bot.) The cut-scenes there could be even funnier than the guy-on-guy scenario. Just anything with a whiff of this-is-how-you-cretins-are, admit-it satire would be welcome.
I might just have to watch anyway, just to see Milo acting like a "meth-addled robot," but maybe I can just wait a couple weeks for Heroes because that sounds like his usual acting style.
Dexter certainly has his non-subdued moments but one of the biggest aggravations of this movie is that they have MCH in the cast, yet there is no Dexter-bot! Where is the justice in that?
A rental, maybe. I have a feeling this is going to be one of those teeth-gnashing, I-could-have-written-a-far-more-interesting-movie experiences for me, and in that case, it always helps to have the fast-forward and eject buttons close at hand.
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To be honest, I'm not even sure what they were trying to do with this. They would flash some tits, then cut to a shot of disgusting land whale guy. Like they wanted to alternately titillate and abhor.
We never see who is controlling the Milo-bot, only the fat guy controlling the girl-bot. But it is probably safe to assume it's another guy. One of the "perks" of the Society game in the movie is that no one knows who you really are or what you look like. They only see the person whose body you have paid to control.
The director at least could have some fun, say, instead of focusing on Milo-bot and ho-bot, giving us a "sex scene" with their respective fat-gross-nerd controllers. That might also empty out the theater, but as always my objective here is art rather than mere pandering to the mob.
As Milo is undoing his pants so he can buttfuck gross-nerd-in-a-hot-chick's-body, Gerard Butler steps in and breaks the guy over his knee. Does that count?
Well, they are all supposed to be real people, they just sell control of their bodies. So the guy isn't really supposed to be Milo. Yeah, it really makes no sense for people to sell control of their bodies like that, when you could more easily have an actual video game where the possibilities are endless. You could control a Milo-bot, or be a fifty-foot-tall Godzilla-bot. This is not a movie you should look at too closely. Just enjoy the pretty graphics and mindless violence!
I might just have to watch anyway, just to see Milo acting like a "meth-addled robot," but maybe I can just wait a couple weeks for Heroes because that sounds like his usual acting style.
It was worse than usual. He twitched and spoke in a broken monotone. I was thinking, "I'm glad they finally found him a role he couldn't fuck up."
Yeah, this is one of those cases where they just set up a cool premise and then don't bother to explore it beyond some cool effects and moustache-twirling villainy.
However, any movie where you get both a song and dance number and get to see John Leguizamo get shot to death can't be all bad.
