It's hard to have any active dislike for a movie like Gamer, because it really doesn't try very hard to be much more than an excuse to get some really cool blood spatter effects on screen and occasionally feature topless women. Naturally, for the target market, which...
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Gamer Review: Awesome!
I think the title says it all. Gerard Butler puts in a scarily good performance. At some points in the movie, you don't know if he's being controlled or being himself. The direction is especially good for a movie like this. Action movies can leave lots of plot holes...
Video killed the video game star
[i Gamer is a futuristic tale where the video icons are real people.[/i The question of what to do with the cutthroats and murderers who occupy American prisons was solved years ago by the movies: you make them run for their lives for the amusement of TV game show...
(Review) Gamer
Lionsgate | USA | 95 minutes With a depiction of a distant future that seems all too possible and enough explosions and mayhem to make even Michael Bay blush, Gamer provides its audience with a brilliantly executed scifi/action/thriller, not to mention some really...
Review: Gamer (Blog)
PLOT: In the distant future, video games have advanced to the point where players begin controlling actual people. The newest game to feature this technology is called “Slayersâ€, where players control death row inmates, who are forced to battle each other to the...
“Gamer” Is a Sex and Violence Epic With Balls
The awesomeness of exploitation flick Gamer is going to surprise you. Packed with insane violence, decadent sex, and (yes!) musical numbers, the movie is a blood-dark satire of futuristic videogame culture that will push all your buttons. Spoilers ahead! Made by...
Brutal truth
[i In Gamer, Gerard Butler inhabits a sci-fi world that's frightening close to our own future[/i NEW YORK -- In the online "virtual world" called Second Life, users create avatars -- 3-D alter egos -- who socialize, shop and have sex with other avatars. In the new...
‘Gamer,’ ‘Steve’ vie for box office bucks
Labor Day weekend pits geeks against gals as Lionsgate opens Gerard Butler actioner "Gamer" in 2,502 theaters and 20th Century Fox goes out with Sandra Bullock-Bradley Cooper comedy "All About Steve" in 2,251. The third new wide entry is Miramax's Mike Judge comedy...
‘Gamer,’ ‘Surrogates,’ ‘Avatar’ and the meaning of (second) life
In the old days, Hollywood tried to make thrillers that got under your skin -- today it's more about films that get you out of your skin. In a sign of the times, this Friday the blood-splattered "Gamer" begins a wave of sci-fi films that take the concepts of second...
Gerard Butler Returns To High-Adrenaline Action With ‘Gamer’ (Blog)
Gerard Butler Returns To High-Adrenaline Action With 'Gamer' 'Between takes, he's working out,' Milo Ventimiglia says of pumped-up star. In 2006's graphic-novel adaptation "300," Gerard Butler was a loincloth-wearing, six-pack-baring Spartan king of blood-spilling...
Cinema review: Game on
[i Picturenose.com's Jeremy Slater is pleased to discover a 'movie of a video game' that doesn't insult the intelligence…[/i Most grown-ups and many moviegoers would shy away, these days, from films that appear to be based on PC games, and who can blame them? The...
The Movie Watcher’s Guide To September 2009 (Blog)
And that's a wrap for the summer 2009 movie season! We should have a recap coming up shortly, but I think it's safe to say that it was a damn good summer for movie lovers. (Anyone who claims different not only hates movies but hates babies, puppies, ice cream, and...
Gerry Butler tries to get back on his Gamer (Blog)
Ubiquitous sports commercials aside, there are four things that will sell the upcoming "Gamer," and they all start with Gerry and end with Butler. The actor who catapulted to fame as an action star in "300" has been toiling in Nora Ephron territory recently, with...
A New Gamer TV Spot: “Let’s Rock” (Blog)
Friday is coming soon! And finally we will be able to see the movie Gamer starring Gerard Butler, Michael C Hall and Milo Ventimiglia. It should be interesting to see how the whole super virtual reality concept plays out in theaters. Don't forget to check out the...
This week’s new movie releases – Sept. 4, 2009 (Blog)
**** GAMER (with Gerard Butler, Michael C. Hall, Ludacris) Synopsis: Humans control other humans in a mass-scale, multiplayer online game. Reclusive billionaire Ken Castle has created the controversial form of entertainment, "Slayers," a hugely popular game that...
Butler Bringing The Action Back for “Gamer”
It was Gerard Butler's first UFC event, and the star of the upcoming film “Gamer†(which opens in theatres this Friday, September 4th), and as he makes clear, being in Philadelphia for UFC 102 earlier this month was quite an eye-opening experience. “It's pretty...
Gamer Directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor on Wanting to Be Abused
The twisted minds behind the Crank series turn their attentions to human video games and real-life Second Life in Gamer. They talk about their controller fantasies and the top secret sequel they can't talk about. Q: Where did you get the inspiration for Gamer? MN: We...
Gamer Get in the Poster at Facebook (Blog)
Gamer Get in the Poster at Facebook The movie website for Gamer is like a world in itself. Once the website finally loads, you can use your mouse to navigate around and explore the world - different bulls eyes become available navigating you to the cast and crew,...
The Fast and Furiously Lampooned
THE filmmaker Mark Neveldine sat in a booth at Rudy's Bar & Grill, a dimly lit dive in Hell's Kitchen in Manhattan, working on a pitcher of beer. Looking the part of a happy-hour regular on this late July afternoon, he wore a mustache and a trucker cap. “My...
Check out a ‘Gamer’ clip featuring Gerard Butler
Gerard Butler's been spending his summer with Jennifer Aniston — rumor is they're even dating — filming the new movie The Bounty in New Jersey and New York, and that's where our Brian Truitt found him when he talked with Butler for a feature in this weekend's...
Anticipating Gamer – The Greatest Video Game Movie Ever… Or the Worst (Blog)
Gamer hits theaters next week, and if you're intensely ambivalent about it, I don't blame you. Is it a goofy parody of video game stereotypes, or a lowest-common-denominator exploitation of society's fear of them? Is it a balls-to-the-wall action flick, or a weird...
Movies – Sept 2009
**** Gamer We'd be complete hypocrites if we didn't cover this movie, even though it is rated R for language and violence, so parents be forewarned. Why is it so important? Because it's a loving homage to video games, a prominent feature in our editorial picks as you...
Gamer: Play to Live Trailer (Blog)
Gamer is gearing up to look pretty impressive mixing MMO multiplayer addiction and barbaric blood sports. We've been keeping a pretty close eye on this upcoming action flick with Gerard Butler becoming the next action star with big thanks to testosterone nerd film...
What the Geek Gyrl is Squeeing Over Right Now (Blog)
A Squee is a personal thing; we each have our own squee-worthy moments and memories and activities and “thingamabobsâ€. Right now, I'm squeeing over a few movies, a couple TV shows and a video game (no partridges in pear trees, though, please.) I'm very excited...
Humans Control Other Humans in Upcoming Film ‘Gamer’ (Blog)
Gamer is set in the near future, a time when mind-control technology has taken society by storm. Humans control other humans in a mass-scale, multiplayer online game. Reclusive billionaire Ken Castle (Michael C. Hall) has created the controversial form of...