Gamer

Well just got back from the cinematic still birth that is Gamer.

WHY in god's name would I see this?

Oh yeah that's right MNL convinced me. I have to say there was a interesting disturbing quality to the movie. You know ala RunningMan, or maybe Logan's Run, picturesque future utopia that has an underbelly of corpses and greed...it was well familiar. They really played up the class differences between the actual game controllers and the human game pieces. What I thought was almost more interesting than the combat game in the film Slayers, was the Sims like game Society. This aspect of the film was stretched and twisted until what you see is a Otaku limbo. A place where people intentionally injure their game pieces and make them engage in perverse sex acts and then laugh hysterically while getting getting off to suffering and depravity.

Very twisted, very telling, as a piece of simplistic over done satire it almost works. but, then mere seconds later there is a gratuitous head explosion or deviant act in the background that pulls you out of any cerebral analysis. This film is interesting, for about 8 minutes out of 95 minutes, but essentially it is dumb entertainment made for the dumb masses. How dumb are we people? How many more shit movies is Hollywood going to put out? Why do we keep paying to see these horrible films?

Oh yeah that's right all we like in our entertainment is sex and violence anymore. Thankfully this is not totally true. But I am terrified of the day when all we have left is this disconnected, violent, primitive eye gouging dribble. Thank god for the occasional diamond in the rough. Without that I would have to write of movies altogether.