Hey, Grayson! I don't know about anyone else in the forum, but I know what you've been up to... I get an E-book sales listing every week, and your name was prominent on it. (Congrats! )
And I didn't see "Gamer" at the theater, because I was once part of a VR experiment back in my Salad Daze. Might pick it up on DVD. "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: grayson.reyesc...@yahoo.com Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:12:56 -0800 Subject: [scifinoir2] Gamer - Spoilers Hey Guys, I'm coming out of lurkland! How's it going? I didn't go see the movie Gamer when it was in theaters, mainly because I am all Gerard Butler'd out. But I think, perhaps, I would have gone to the movies if I had seen the rest of the cast. Though Gerard and "Luda" were not big enough draws for me, adding in Michael C Hall, that chick from The Closer or Kevin Bacon's wife, whichever (that is mean and misogynistic and potentially offensive, but I don't care for The Closer and I'm offended by the idea that chocolate will make me batty and orgasmal... I find *that* misogynistic), Amber Valletta who's always either in a messed up relationship or is a thinly veiled prostiute or some king or has a kid missing in a movie, Alison Lohman who starred in the exceptionally gross Drag Me to Hell, John Leguizamo (my Latin boyfriend), Ohymygod is that Keith David?, and Mr Ripped himself, Terry Crews as Hackman made it a little more interesting. What I find I like about this movie is this: Because I do play a lot of video games, including adventure games, shooters, and war games, I recognized the concept of bringing that into a violent focus through a film which reads completely and utterly vicious and reprehensible because it exactly portrays game action with live people, and that concept was fully realized for me. I also think Terry Crews was stellar in the two seconds when he was not being all hack-y. At his introduction, he's breathing heavily and having what I can only refer to as a malevolent asthma attack that works well for the mood. The first speaking scene he's in I absolutely adore. He's sweaty, covered in blood and the lighting is very low. Since his and my complexion are about the same, I take sincere note of and appreciate the way they avoid over-lighting so that he both fades into the dark and becomes a menacing part of it that's almost anime in look and feel. Then he starts singing this cheerful song "I've got no strings" and he sounds really happy and it is super freaky and I love it. Now let's add that it's got some pretty cool future-PC affects and what has to be one of my new favorite musicalslashdanceslaskfightyetcrazilyKubrikian scenes led by the serial killer everyone wants in their neighborhood. It has the potential, I'm seeing it, I'm wanting it. but... It's kinda crappy... Yeah, I know. I know. But I needed to extol its positives earlier in order to fairly say it sucked... Here's my top ten list of things that irritated me: 1) The battle scenes were too long... Yeah, yeah, yeah I said that it made sense the way they were done and they appropriately simulated game play... sooooooooo what! 2) Luda's attempt to persuade Simon into freeing Kable is a bit hard to believe... Oh I know the talk was necessary, but damn couldn't they make it a bit more eloquent of a moment? Actually, I retract that Luda and his whole organization the Humanz is not well thought out and is a trope for trope's sake. 3) Hackman does not get killed in a honorable battle mano a mano and I needed for that to happen. 4) Vomit and pee are not so great as energy sources even if they are renewable 5) Snowplows are not that agile 6) I saw the dude controlling Kable's wife in Seven, it didn't end so well for him... Wait a minute... that wasn't Seven, that was The Last Comic Standing. 7) "We're all slaves"... Shaking my head at this scene. 8) Milo Ventimiglia: You embarassed yourself once in The Curse and it was amusing. This time, not so much. Rick Rape? Really, you should be ashamed of yourself. 9) Why do people seem to equate the near future with the abuse latex? 10) "My nanocells are meant to transmit." nuff said. The ending of this movie is like the ending of one of my books before my editor gets violent with me. I get rushed and impatient and want to finish so damn bad I take rush. I admit it. It's a shortcoming. THAT'S why I thank my editor in advance for the literary violence and work on it every single day. But damn... really? Did anyone else see it? --Grayson _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390710/direct/01/
