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baldie_troll bought me Were the World Mine but it won't play on my computer and I cbf setting up my DVD player right now, so instead I watched a file on my computer. I wasn't sure what it was since it was named something strange, but it turned out to be a movie!
Gamer
In a future dystopia, people play other people as video games. Gerard Butler is in a first-person shooter being controlled by Logan Lerman, and Michael C. Hall is the supervillain mastermind behind the whole phenomenon.
This is one of those movies where the world is morally bankrupt, but the movie still pulls a random possibly happy ending out of its ass (I don't think there is an actual subversion or twist on that, but even if there is it's still kind of stupid). I know that people often behave badly, but the concept of this kind of hedonistic society with gritty underground freedom fighters never completely sits right with me, particularly when they don't even go for a proper, dark ending to go with that created world. However, this movie posits a few good ideas, and is helped along by a frenetic pace and a pretty brilliant turn from Michael C. Hall as the evil puppet master - he chews up the scenery with glee. I honestly don't understand the appeal of Gerard Butler. He never holds my interest as the lead. I was much more interested in pretty much everyone else in the movie. I felt like they could have spent more time on things like character development and motivation - the arc of Lerman's character is actually pretty interesting and he seemed to be capable of actual acting, if they'd only left the camera on him for more than three seconds. Kyra Sedgwick also could've been given more to do with her intriguing morally-grey-reporter role. Some great cameos, though, and it actually does make the world look like a video game, which is interesting. There was rampant sexism, as there always is with dystopian hedonistic futures. Men rule the world and women are just objects. AUGH.
Baader-Meinhoff of the day: so I've been on a massive Psych kick, and who should show up in this movie but Maggie Lawson and James Roday! As soon as I heard their voices I was like OMG. Of course, it led to inappropriate laughter, because it just seemed like Shawn doing a bit in a silly moustache rather than part of the movie.
2.5 out of 5
Green Queen
baldie_troll bought me Were the World Mine but it won't play on my computer and I cbf setting up my DVD player right now, so instead I watched a file on my computer. I wasn't sure what it was since it was named something strange, but it turned out to be a movie!Gamer
In a future dystopia, people play other people as video games. Gerard Butler is in a first-person shooter being controlled by Logan Lerman, and Michael C. Hall is the supervillain mastermind behind the whole phenomenon.
This is one of those movies where the world is morally bankrupt, but the movie still pulls a random possibly happy ending out of its ass (I don't think there is an actual subversion or twist on that, but even if there is it's still kind of stupid). I know that people often behave badly, but the concept of this kind of hedonistic society with gritty underground freedom fighters never completely sits right with me, particularly when they don't even go for a proper, dark ending to go with that created world. However, this movie posits a few good ideas, and is helped along by a frenetic pace and a pretty brilliant turn from Michael C. Hall as the evil puppet master - he chews up the scenery with glee. I honestly don't understand the appeal of Gerard Butler. He never holds my interest as the lead. I was much more interested in pretty much everyone else in the movie. I felt like they could have spent more time on things like character development and motivation - the arc of Lerman's character is actually pretty interesting and he seemed to be capable of actual acting, if they'd only left the camera on him for more than three seconds. Kyra Sedgwick also could've been given more to do with her intriguing morally-grey-reporter role. Some great cameos, though, and it actually does make the world look like a video game, which is interesting. There was rampant sexism, as there always is with dystopian hedonistic futures. Men rule the world and women are just objects. AUGH.
Baader-Meinhoff of the day: so I've been on a massive Psych kick, and who should show up in this movie but Maggie Lawson and James Roday! As soon as I heard their voices I was like OMG. Of course, it led to inappropriate laughter, because it just seemed like Shawn doing a bit in a silly moustache rather than part of the movie.
2.5 out of 5
Green Queen