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    "Gamer" Is a Sex and Violence Epic With Balls

    A Bevvy of Mind-Controlled Lady Puppets From "Gamer"

    New Gamer Trailer Shows You How To Use Jazz Hands To Control Your Avatar Killer

    The Meaning Of Gamer's Raver Porn Revealed

    So When Does The Writers Strike Stop Ruining Movies?

    Control Gerard Butler's Killing Spree From Your Futon

    A Futuristic Rave, In Gerard Butler's Gamer

    New Trailer Shows That Gamer = Crank + Death Race

    Italian Game Trailer Shows Who Pulls Gerard Butler's Strings

    Game May Be One Big Game Over, According To Early Reviews
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    Image of Alessar Alessar
    09/08/09

    In reply to "Gamer" Is a Sex and Violence Epic With Balls
    I saw it Friday. I thought it was pretty good; not High Art but about 7.5/10. One thing I was impressed with was the pacing and cinematography. Everything was chopped up into such little pieces it actually cut down on the gore factor because (usually) anything super graphic was only on screen for .5-.75 seconds. ("Did I just see someone's leg blown off? Ulp...") There were a few places in the movie I'd have liked longer character moments or more exposition, but those weren't essential things so stylistic consistency was applied.

    I think that the sci fi element of it is good. It's a valid exploration of how we'd use (abuse) a new technology, wrapped up in a commercial shell of ultra-violent action movie. And yeah, it's a bit like Death Race 2000 meets Ghost in the Shell meet The Running Man.
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    Image of disatess disatess
    09/06/09

    In reply to "Gamer" Is a Sex and Violence Epic With Balls
    it was a lousy mish-mash of old films slapped together
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    09/05/09

    In reply to "Gamer" Is a Sex and Violence Epic With Balls
    Kind of reminds me of the blatant sarcasm in the original RoboCop.
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    Image of Torley Torley
    09/05/09

    In reply to "Gamer" Is a Sex and Violence Epic With Balls
    But where are all the neko? It just isn't a comprehensive virtual world without them. :(

    BTW, whoever edited the trailer has clearly subscribed to the Video Copilot school of twitching.
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    Image of Dash_Stryker Dash_Stryker
    09/05/09

    In reply to "Gamer" Is a Sex and Violence Epic With Balls
    This is everything i try to say games aren't.
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    Image of stryfe101 stryfe101
    09/05/09

    In reply to "Gamer" Is a Sex and Violence Epic With Balls
    i liked it
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    Annalee Newitz promoted this comment stryfe101 was starred stryfe101 was unstarred
    Image of regis regis
    09/05/09

    In reply to "Gamer" Is a Sex and Violence Epic With Balls
    See, an invention like this might be able to finally lead to widespread adoption of IPv6.
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    Image of Palliard Palliard
    09/05/09

    @regis: That's just crazy talk. Nothing will lead to that.
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    Annalee Newitz promoted this comment Palliard was starred Palliard was unstarred
    Image of Lightice Lightice
    09/05/09

    In reply to "Gamer" Is a Sex and Violence Epic With Balls
    I'm getting a bit of a "new medias are evil" vibe from this one. Human contact across computers is not just false, but also exploitative, and gamers don't care that real people die for their amusement.

    In other words, the movie's message goes: get off your computer, and give us more money!

    I could be wrong, but that's how movies like this tend to play out, when you get down to it.
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    Annalee Newitz promoted this comment Lightice was starred Lightice was unstarred
    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    09/05/09

    @Lightice: There is definitely that element to it. But there's also a celebratory side to it too - like, fuck yeah videogames are violent and we love it.
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    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    09/05/09

    In reply to "Gamer" Is a Sex and Violence Epic With Balls
    The trailer looks great and ive always been a fan of Gerrard Butler, even before 300! But im not going to read the spoilers (as much as I want to). just so I can enjoy it a little bit more. It does seem this year Hollywood is hell bent on releasing films that have one person taking over another. Avatar, Gamer, Surragates. Its not a bad thing, but I am seeing a trend.
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    Image of Rickotron Rickotron
    09/04/09

    In reply to "Gamer" Is a Sex and Violence Epic With Balls
    So when do we get the Dollhouse vs Gamer poll?
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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    09/05/09

    @Rickotron: no dollhouse for me but i am interested in this film
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    Image of Lassus Lassus
    09/04/09

    In reply to "Gamer" Is a Sex and Violence Epic With Balls
    Sexbots!

    Is Sierra in this film?
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    Image of TheGreenRanger TheGreenRanger
    09/04/09

    In reply to "Gamer" Is a Sex and Violence Epic With Balls
    I really had no interest in seeing this one, just looked like a mindless gore fest. Reminded me of deathrace, and I never really liked the whole gaming angle, just seemed like a little kid's dream plot for a movie. However, after reading this review, I just may see it....perhaps. It is hard to show what a movie's about from a wee little trailer.
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    09/04/09

    @TheGreenRanger: Also, it really couldn't be further from "mindless" gorefest. Yes, it's gory - though not nearly as gory as Crank by far - but it's got a big throbbing brain up its sleeve.
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    Image of SJ_Edwards SJ_Edwards
    09/04/09

    @Annalee Newitz: Crank was gory? Seriously, I hadn't noticed. But then again I have been 'killed' 58,020 times in Halo 3 multiplayer :)
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    Image of Sunshineyness Sunshineyness
    09/04/09

    @TheGreenRanger: I've been going back and forth on this one. It looked REALLY bad the first trailer I saw for it. Than on some more info I thought, "well, could be a good exploitation flick" and plus, well, Gerard Butler's all kinds of hot... *Shrug* I'll probs catch it Monday at a matinee. Got the holiday off and a buddy of mine wants to check it out. Only end up costing $6.50....
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    09/05/09

    @SJ_Edwards: Mostly I was thinking of Crank II, with the greased up gun going into the guy's ass and the women's breasts exploding into globs of silicon. You won't see anything that extreme here.
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    Image of Elpon Elpon
    09/04/09

    In reply to "Gamer" Is a Sex and Violence Epic With Balls
    The last time Gerard Butler kicked this much ass was 300 years ago

    This ad alone makes me never want to see this movie.
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    Image of Dryftwood Dryftwood
    09/04/09

    @Elpon: I'm glad someone said it. My wife and I laughed our way through the rest of the commercial after that.

    Seriously...what marketing guy approved that line?
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    Image of TheGreenRanger TheGreenRanger
    09/04/09

    @Dryftwood: heh, i laughed out loud
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    Image of Mighty Bomb Jack Mighty Bomb Jack
    09/04/09

    In reply to "Gamer" Is a Sex and Violence Epic With Balls
    Does anyone else have such a 1:1 ratio of romatic comedies to badass fests as Gerard Butler?
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    Image of Don't Make Me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee. Don't Make Me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee.
    09/05/09

    @Mighty Bomb Jack: suprisingly, Sandra Bullock. Of course, all her badass-fests are only available on the underground DVD circuit, and she uses the nom-de-plume of "Bitch Killem," but they're out there...
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    Don't Make Me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee. was starred Don't Make Me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee. was unstarred
    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    09/05/09

    @Mighty Bomb Jack: I'm looking forward to the day when he decided to combine the two. It might actually get me to watch a romantic comedy.
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    09/05/09

    @Don't Make Me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee.: True!
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    Image of Mighty Bomb Jack Mighty Bomb Jack
    09/05/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: How to Lose a Guy in 300 Ways? P.S. I'll Kick Your Ass?
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    Image of Gawd Gawd
    09/04/09

    In reply to "Gamer" Is a Sex and Violence Epic With Balls
    Definitely an assault on your senses... Crank 2 was batshit crazy while this is mind-warping... I thoroughly enjoyed it.

    All those bewbs and Amber Valleta's @$$ are such a treat alongside the blood, limbs, decapitations, neck-breakings, and overall death.

    2 singing numbers that actually work well too!

    My 1 complaint... the ending was kinda lacklustre.
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    Annalee Newitz promoted this comment Gawd was starred Gawd was unstarred
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