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And stay as far away as you possibly can from "Gamer"....probably the worst film I've seen in quite a while. I do have a favor to ask any director working on action films in the future.....CAN WE DROP THE FRAKING SHAKY CAMERA IN ACTION SCENES......PLEASE????? I'm tired of having to take motion sickness pills to see any action films these days. Yes we know there is action going on (the explosions and gunfire are a bit of a give away)...you don't need the camera to act like there's a 10.0 on the Richter scale earthquake going on at the same time.
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Solve a man's problem with violence and help him for a day. Teach a man how to solve his problems with violence, help him for a lifetime - Belkar Bitterleaf
Well, when I saw they were mining the "person stuck in a real life video game" theme and it wasn't 1995, I decided to stay away, but thanks for the heads up!
Polonius wrote:Well, when I saw they were mining the "person stuck in a real life video game" theme and it wasn't 1995, I decided to stay away, but thanks for the heads up!
Yeah...it was so bad, the first line of dialog in the film was, and I kid you not, "Oh my god, he teabagged him!!"....and it went downhill from there.
Solve a man's problem with violence and help him for a day. Teach a man how to solve his problems with violence, help him for a lifetime - Belkar Bitterleaf
Squig_herder wrote:Can I ask what is the movie about?
GAMER is a high-concept action thriller set in a near future when gaming and entertainment have evolved into a terrifying new hybrid. Humans control other humans in mass-scale, multi-player online games: people play people...for keeps. Mind-control technology is widespread, and at the heart of the controversial games is its creator, reclusive billionaire Ken Castle (Michael C. Hall). His latest brainchild, the first-person shooter game "Slayers," allows millions to act out their most savage fantasies online in front of a global audience, using real prisoners as avatars with whom they fight to the death.
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Solve a man's problem with violence and help him for a day. Teach a man how to solve his problems with violence, help him for a lifetime - Belkar Bitterleaf
Squig_herder wrote:Can I ask what is the movie about?
Prisoners being used in a live version of a first person shooter, being controled by someone else, and the evil billionaire who made it possible
Wow, so my 1995 joke was actually pretty accurate. Seriously, wasn't his movie made before? Or am I just thinking of that one really bad X-Files episode that's the same thing.
Squig_herder wrote:Can I ask what is the movie about?
Prisoners being used in a live version of a first person shooter, being controled by someone else, and the evil billionaire who made it possible
Wow, so my 1995 joke was actually pretty accurate. Seriously, wasn't his movie made before? Or am I just thinking of that one really bad X-Files episode that's the same thing.
Yeah, it was called Tron, made by Disney....
And next year they're coming out with a sequel....
Solve a man's problem with violence and help him for a day. Teach a man how to solve his problems with violence, help him for a lifetime - Belkar Bitterleaf
LunaHound wrote:Any movie made with satisfying gamers in mind will fail miserably.
Resident Evil and the original Mortal Kombat did quite well.
People are like dice, a certain Frenchman said that. You throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing. People are free because they can do that. Everyone's circumstances are different, but no matter how small the choice, at the very least, you can throw yourself. It's not chance or fate. It's the choice you made.
LunaHound wrote:Any movie made with satisfying gamers in mind will fail miserably.
Resident Evil and the original Mortal Kombat did quite well.
The standard of gamer back then isnt as hostile + reek of nerdiness as majority of now's .
They have progressively get worse and more aggressive.
What? Where have you been the past ten years? Video gaming is much more socially acceptable nowadays, compared to, say, 10-12 years ago, when that stereotype of the nerd alone in his basement playing games came around. The spread of the internet and online gaming has made it more acceptable.
People are like dice, a certain Frenchman said that. You throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing. People are free because they can do that. Everyone's circumstances are different, but no matter how small the choice, at the very least, you can throw yourself. It's not chance or fate. It's the choice you made.
I think the hard core gamers have gotten more picky and negative in their views toward things. Admittedly, they have more of a megaphone now with the internet, but the hard core games of 15 years ago were kids playing in basements, now it's adults.
The only reason my curiosity was peaked was because I thought from the trailer there was a musical number in it, which is odd in such an adolescent violence filled movie. Luckily I knew I wouldn't have to watch the movie to find out if that were true. Apparently there is, so there you go.
Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
Polonius wrote:I think the hard core gamers have gotten more picky and negative in their views toward things. Admittedly, they have more of a megaphone now with the internet, but the hard core games of 15 years ago were kids playing in basements, now it's adults.
-to many points to bother to count.