Trailer: ‘Gamer’ Opens Everywhere Today

It appears to be a movie devoid of any holiness or decency. Pass.

"Death Race," anyone?

It's Death Race remake (which I have to say, was tons better than I expected) only instead of borrowing from the Twisted Metal video game series (normal/semi-normal vehicles get souped up and have to drive around blowing each other up) it's now borrowing from 1st person shooters like Call of Duty.

Given the fact that the video game industry is the most financially powerful medium of culture now (I heard somewhere it makes more money than both the music industry and the movie industry) I think they need to start making more movies that incorporate gamer-ism into the plot. Or at least take the director's chair for game-related projects away from Uwe Boll & Paul WS Anderson. Since the industry has grown exponentially in the last 15 years and has evolved substantially, it really seems to be something that the film industry should be taking heed of. The problem is that they insist on taking great, great games like the Resident Evil franchise and then giving them over to talentless hacks like Paul Anderson for him to write his own "original" (read: tripe) version of while ignoring what made the original product endearing.

I'll split it with ya!

Deathrace was great, mindless fun, with lots of explosions. Rollerball (the recent version) was less of the same.

The 13th Floor requires more thought, but it boils down to Evil Video Game. It's like a live action ReBoot.

No, I think that's Bruce Willis' upcoming "Surrogates." Or maybe that's "Westworld" meets "Avatar?"

Which Call of Duty game did they turn into Saving Private Ryan?

I had a long response typed up about how Metal Gear Solid (excellent story, near flawless game) would make a crappy movie. Then I remembered The Rock. Protagonist sneaks around, must aviod better-armed guards who aren't shy about calling for reinforcements, to protect the world from terrorists. The movie was a successful venture, if I recall.

I think if more directors pinched the story from the games, rather than the title, they'd have more success. Resident Evil is a great example of this. I liked the first two movies, but I've never played the games. The fans of the game unanimoulsy decry the movies as utter garbage. If they'd called the movie anything else, those who liked the movie (like me) would still like it, and the fans of the game wouldn't be pissed at the rape of their beloved franchise.

this movie will make an a$$load of money from teen boys who have nothing better to do.

If Gerry Butler doesn't scream "THIS! IS! XBOX!" before kicking Ludacris in slow-mo down a well, I'm not watching it.

Best comment, bar none.

Actually I found the trailer for Surrogates more intriguing because they seemed to try to make more out of their premise (note I´m putting this in cautious terms).

Another action movie filmed in no-color-no-contrast-o-vision. They don´t have the guts or competence to film anything in glorious, crisp black & white but they happily give us washed out smudges. And all their explosions look the same.

I can think of maybe 5 movies that meet your rigid criteria. At least you must be hitting the books a lot!

Teen boys and possibly at least one 45 year old mother of four.

It's Death Race remake (which I have to say, was tons better then I expected) only instead of borrowing from the Twisted Metal video game series (normal/semi-normal vehicles get souped up and have to drive around blowing each other up) it's now borrowing from 1st person shooters like Call of Duty.

Seriously. DR remake: Guy gets pulled out of prison to participate in game where contestants drive souped up cars around trying to blow each other up and win freedom

Gamer: Guy gets pulled out of prison to participate in game where contestants are given guns and have to run around trying to kill each other.

I sort of want to see Gamer though, but I think they could've given everything a semi-sinister vibe if they had the kid controlling Gerard Butler use a modern-style Xbox controller. Given the fact that the video game industry is the most powerful form of culture now (I heard somewhere it makes more money then both the music industry and the movie industry) I think they need to start making more movies that incorporate gamer-ism into the plot (but not the d*** gamer subculture, PLEASE)

Well it is really Paul Anderson. He butchered the plot of Resident Evil to make the movie. I concede that the fanboys should all be put in a sound-proof chamber and studied to see what nutrients can be derived from them (sorry been reading the Ross Perot pamphlets) but I think a lot of it boils down to Rule of Cool & Canon Sue status within the Resident Evil film franchise. I don't care how good a martial artist you are, you don't use kung-fu against a zombie dog. You don't. It's just lame. You don't use Kung Fu against Nemesis. Find Alice in the following article

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It's really jilting to see the situation go from normal people being hunted by waves of the undead vs. Super Girl killing zombies by the thousand & making it look easy while the actual canon characters are forced to just sit back and marvel at how great non-canon Alice is. The original game was so-simple yet so-genius. Team of people trapped in mansion. Mansion full of undead. It's a basic haunted-house film with zombies replacing a guy in a mask.

The plot of this movie reminds me of an early Xbox game called Killswitch. The backstory was a US Special Forces member was kidnapped and had his mind/body hijacked. The terrorists used him to infiltrate and destabilize countries under the guise of a US military soldier, until he regained control of his body and took the fight to them. Pretty much the same "in control of another body" concept with a "Running Man" twist.

Win.

*MissQuinn*

One might become a bit upset if one had spent time in Hollywood shopping around a television series called "Gamers", which was looked at by multiple showrunners but ultimately turned down, and then one saw a movie preview for a show called "Gamers."

But then I stopped being upset because this story looks ridiculous, and my series concept was brilliant and original. Whew, what a relief. Hollywood still sucks.

RIGHT ON, BROTHA!

Thank you for saying this.