Escape to the Movies: Gamer

[Neesa]

K, so I watched the movie and part of me died. The ending seemed to be lacking something. Like, I felt like there was something missing. My friends and I enjoyed ripping apart the movie. There's an unnecessary amount of breasts in there for what reason? Apparently the internet is nothing but boobs, right? Of course. The "teabag" moment in the very beginning was just silly. Typical if anything. But, whatever.

The part of the movie when they were talking about the "ping". Ohhhh man. That made me laugh.
"Oh ping? Yeah yeah, I heard of that." Ahahaha, good job. The movie was pretty eh. Just a lot of violence and boobs. But then again, that's most of what the internet is anyway. So in that aspect, well done. Overall movie, ehhh. If Gerard Butler had his shirt off more... much higher score. I guess this was suppose to be a "guy" movie in a sense with a bunch of violence, boobs and muscle. Otherwise 6.5/10.

 

[ChromeAlchemist]

As far as crappy-knockoff-movies-of-crappy-knockoff-video-games are concerned, I think a passing mention of Hitman wouldn't've have hurt; that one pretty much epitomizes this whole syndrome: take a good movie, make a middling videogame, and turn it into a truly awful film adaptation. They won't be able to make good movies based on video games until video games start having good, not-stolen storylines.
Meh, I still think a Halo movie could be good. I'm eager to be proven wrong, though, if it means they finally make the damn thing.

I didnt think Hitman was that bad if you judge it by its own merrits.

They humanised Agent 47 with a love interest and the only real resemblance to it's source material was Agent 47's appearance. That film died when they said "There's a government so secret no one knows it exists"...and I died a little with it.

IMO it was an awful adaptation. A faithful adaptation would have been great, it would have been able to hold up. But you did say "it's own merits" so...while the fight scenes were a bit pretentious, they were decent enough, it's worth watching on T.V. IMO.

I would say Gerard did a pretty awesome job in Rock 'n' Rolla, so for me that's even better than 300.

I was going to pop in to say just that, except 300 is better in my opinion. Gerard Butler is actually becoming one of my favorite actors. Although I think he probably needs to start slowing down and pick the movies he does more carefully, definitely avoid another "Gamer" type movie.

and yet no one remembers The Phantom of the Opera before 300.


But I usually like action movies, this one Im still wary against even now........ ever since The Damned I feel like my genre has forsaken me..........

The damned? Never heard of it. At first I thought you meant The Condemned, that dirty ass knock off of Battle Royale. Seriously the concept of that film just made me spit blood.

good review but jebus he needs to hold off on the halo hatedom, I mean starship troopers has a crap story no two ways about it, but halo has close to the most expansive and interesting universe in the entire gaming genre, if not all genres, between the books, games, graphic novel and upcoming anime, the halo universe almost outclasses Star Wars in terms of its universe.

As for the review, I think Gerard Butler's best role was Rock'n'rolla by a long shot, Im probably gonna check this movie out, just because with the exception of P.S I love you, Gerard Butler has always done a decent movie, plus being gamers I guess we are the target audience (considering the title)

And as a follow up, Moviebob, please quit with the shit about halo until you can claim to actually know anything about its universe beyond "space marines with guns"

That's where you lost me. It's expansive, no doubt, but across all media? In paperback media, Marvel, DC, Star Wars, and a host of others beat it out. Games I don't really need to go into. The Halo universe is great, but nowhere near the top.

 

[mlcc]

Edit: Also, Bob, Silent Hill a good movie? You might just lose all credibility ever. If it wasn't for your Transformers review I'd be GONE!

It wasn't that bad.

 

[Klagermeister]

He actually said Starship Troopers is a better halo! Virtual Hi-Five for Bob.
He obviously knows originality!

Kudos to you for recognizing that! Most movies today are cheap knock-offs of common ideas.
And I love the Sergeant Phi avatar!

On topic, I thought the movie was pretty cool.
Sure, there were lots of unnecessary breasts, but my favorite part was...

Spoiler

When the cops were chasing Kable through a rave, and they accidentally shot a lot of people.
One of the people's brains were blown out. The ravers continued to dance and make out while the blood glowed under the black lights.

 

[gigastrike]

I'm still kinda on the line. At first I thought that it was gonna suck because the team was just a bunch of buisiness men who were trying to capitalize on the growing gaming trend, but it seems that the directors are gamers and it shows. But, while my original problems were proved wrong, it seems that the movie itself is simply mediocre because it really is nothing more than a generic shooter.

 

[ThisNewGuy]

I went in expecting a shitty rip off of Death Race, and tbh, it's not a complete failure. I really like the Crank style editing sequences, and everything else pretty much is generic and full of suck.

Lol @ the NPCs.

 

[silentsentinel]

You know, I should stop hoping for a good gaming movie. It's like listening to Peter Molyneux's promises... you get so happy and then you realize that no, I have not fallen in love with the dog, I consider the dog annoying, and I felt liberated when the thing died.

 

[SAVEpointGL1TCH]

Butler was AMAZING in Rock n Rolla and I thought it was a better movie than 300.

Silent Hill was not a good movie, and I am beginning to realize that I am the only person who didn't like Advent Children(pretty as it was)

I am afraid when people get what I like to call "The Alan Moore Syndrome" which is basically automatically assuming that something can't be made into a movie. QUICK EXPLAINATION (in the form of a run on sentence): Due to the fact that a few of his(Alan Moore) comics were made into movies that both flopped and were pretty big departures from his books he did an interview saying he wanted nothing more to do with Hollywood and wanted his name removed from any future movie versions of his comics saying something along the lines of "No story of mine can be recreated in cinema" Turns out he was wrong because both V for Vendetta and The Watchmen were turned into movies and both stayed pretty faithful to the source material. I thought both were very good. You may have not liked them, but at the very least if you read the books you have to admit they stayed relatively faithful to the source material, especially compared to most other comic book movies and their changes.

I guess I just took way too much time to say "Just about any source material can be made into a good movie." I'm not saying that they always are. Just saying that just because the Super Mario Bros. movie was atrocious doesn't mean that a good one can't be made. A Zelda movie could be made and made well. I am even convinced that someone could make a good Mortal Kombat movie. I'm sure all are very unlikely but not impossible.

Moviebob, you loved District 9. Did you see Blomkamp's Landfall, a series of short films released prior to Halo 3 as a promo for the game? I thought it was amazing and it was the main reason I wanted to see District 9. The possibility of him doing the Halo movie is gone but I suspect if you saw Landfall combined with your love of District 9 you would agree that he could make a great Halo movie. If he could there is someone out there who could too.

Keep up the good work Moviebob, enjoy the reviews even when I don't agree with you.

 

[v3n0mat3]

I figured that this movie wasn't going to be that great. Ah, well.

 

[ssgt splatter]

HA! I knew this movie would suck. Now I don't have to go see it, thanks moviebob.

 

[Woem]

Sorority Row next week Bob?

As for the movie...I really want to believe you...but Michael C Hall? How can Dexter be all bad?

I completely agree. Dexter and Ludacris in one movie? I'll definitely rent this one (and enjoy it on my new flatscreen tv teehee).

 

[spikespiegel]

wow.. you just called goodfellas a shitty ganster movie...




and tea-bagging was around before Halo..

 

[karpiel]

I'd be willing to say that Gerard Butler did a good job in the otherwise unremarkable Rocknrolla by Guy Richie.

 

[TornadoADV]

HALO Rage! Let the darkness consume you! Seriously, it's getting old, I can't make it a single review without you whining and bitching about HALO for some reason or another. Why don't you make a series called, "HALO Hate".

As for Starship Troopers, the first movie was an awesome satire and focused on the Light Infantry Invasion Companies, not the Power Armored Drop Troops from the book. (From which all power armored heroes have been spawned from.)

 

[DRTJR]

deveating a bit but yes i would pay to see a live action Zelda movie

 

[Disthron]

"Double Dragon," like almost every arcade-brawler that came before or after, is at least partially inspired by "The Warriors," which gets an entire feature film out of the following premise: "One street gang has to fight they're way on foot from one end of New York to the other versus every other gang in every other territory." If someone made THAT into a successful feature, there's no excuse for "Double Dragon" to screw the pooch almost two decades later.

That's a good point, though it goes to your point in the video. Why do we need a Double Dragon movie when The Worriors has already been made? I have to say I quite liked that film though I only got to see it a little while ago. I was going to say that they would still have to elaborate on why the thugs were kidnaping the woman but then I remembered Taken, where gangsters were apparently just kidnaping random people they thought were ritch.

Anyway, can't say I always agree but I love your work. Looking forward to your new episodes. ^_^

 

[skibadaa]

Personally, i always tend to mistrust any movie that has marylin mansons cover of "sweet dreams" by the eurythmics featuring heavily in its promotional material, to me it screams "LOOK AT MEEE!!! I LISTEN TO METAL!! IM DOWN WITH THE KIDS!!! HONEST!!! WE HAVE MARILYN MANSON ON OUR SOUNDTRACK!!! WOOOOOOOO!!!!" ...... not falling for it

 

[skibadaa]

Silent Hill was not a good movie, and I am beginning to realize that I am the only person who didn't like Advent Children(pretty as it was)

Your not the only person, I think Advent Children was utter WANK. The fact that you think you are alone in this opinion worries me. That film was basically a feature length tech demo created by square to prove a point, that point being they could make any old shit and people would buy it because it was affiliated with Final Fantasy VII, and they were right. It has no story, the dialogue is terribly written and acted even worse. It is a collection of visually spectacular fight scenes and NOTHING else... and as good as those fights are they are utterly pointless because there is NOTHING linking them together, none of the characters seem to have any noticeable motivation for any of the actions they undertake. Its like they got all of the most reprehensible FFVII fanboys, sat them down in a brainstorming session and said: "what would you like to see in this movie" and they came out with the predictable "I WANNA SEE BAHAMUT BLOW UP MIDGAR ZOMFG!!!11 THAT WOULD BE SOOOOO COOOOOOOOLLLLL!!!" and "CLOUD + MOTORBIKES & BULLET TIME = AWESOMENEEESSS!!!!!" thus emerges from this orgy of retardation a film with a story so weak and its action so OTT and pointless im surprised it wasnt written & directed by Michael FUCKING Bay with Jerry FUCKING Bruckheimer as producer. I am really surprised that Moviebob references Advent Children as a successfull game-to-movie adaptation considering it epitimizes pretty much everything he thought was wrong with Transformers 2, and in turn the complete opposite of everything that makes District 9 so good. People knocked "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within" at every turn but at least that had a plot, and dialoge, and acting, and a point in general.

 

[Ian S]

Eh, kinda figured it would only be so-so. Sounds like I'd be better off waiting for it to come out on Redbox where I can only rent it for $1.00. I'll probably be more inclined to go see 9, Extract or Whiteout this weekend, as those look more worthwhile.

I'm kinda glad, though, that this didn't turn out to be an anti-gamer screed. Your "Rollerball as written by Jack Thompson" analogy was what I was dreading this movie would be. But expect the wrath of JT to come down on you just for mentioning his name if it hasn't already. Seems he has a knack for finding people on the internet who do that. Though considering that since he's been disbarred, all he probably does all day is sit at the internet and google his name now.