May 21 2009'Gamer' Trailer: In This Game, There Are No Little Power-Ups with Red Cross Symbols on Them!
Imagine: a future based on someone's dim recollections of The Running Man and Death Race--a future where death row inmates are given a shot at freedom if they agree to compete in a ridiculous form of neo-entertainment. And imagine that the neo-entertainment is much like a first-person shooter video game, but also sort of like virtual reality, wherein outsider "gamers" mind-control the actions of the incarcerated. And pretend that the role of "gamer" would not be limited to the few privileged elite (probably Richard Branson and Moby) able to afford the surely expensive price of getting to control a man's fate; let's just say kids got to make criminals like Gerard Butler, John Leguizamo, and Ludacris jump and shoot their way to freedom.
That future is now!:
I guarantee you any kid given this responsibility would kill their character in a few minutes after seeing how awesome it would be to use a rocket launcher to proper Gerard Butler off the top of a building. I've played Grand Theft Auto. I know how it works.
(Thanks, Brayden.)
Reader Comments
1. yeayurr - May 21, 2009 1:18 PM
meh...
2. che-che - May 21, 2009 2:05 PM
LUDA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it has explosions, i give them that.
3. Igetit - May 21, 2009 2:07 PM
So Death Race with video games???
4. Billy Gates - May 21, 2009 2:33 PM
It gets a plus for having Marilyn Manson's cover of Sweet Dream (Are made of this) in the trailer
5. D - May 21, 2009 2:57 PM
huh... so thats what Gerard looks like wearing something other than a speedo a cape and a helmet. Always wondered.
6. mac - May 21, 2009 3:45 PM
What's the over/under for amount of uses of the words, pwned or noob in this?
7. Stanley - May 21, 2009 5:35 PM
I enjoyed watching the development of this movie, as a great of its filming took place near my office building in Albuquerque, New Mexico. If nothing else, the production contained lots of dangerous physical effects and stunts. The sets were also massive, intricate in detail, and very gritty.
8. Bickleton Wigglesworth III - May 21, 2009 6:09 PM
It's a shame to see what might have otherwise been an entertaining action flick ruined with a ridiculous and rehashed premise like death for entertainment television.
ugh, pass.
9. Thrasher - May 21, 2009 7:05 PM
Anything with dexter in it is automatically a 10 in my book.
10. Elmo - May 21, 2009 7:59 PM
another *amazing* Lionsgate movie...
11. jimbob - May 21, 2009 8:03 PM
Fantastic, the one second clip at 1:55 has just saved us all having to watch this film.
12. rob - May 21, 2009 8:31 PM
what??!!...this is entertainment?!
get me out of here
13. jojo - May 21, 2009 8:59 PM
Thats funny, anything with Dexter is automatically a miss in my book
14. Dustin - May 21, 2009 10:22 PM
It's easy to see that people like stupid things, some things in life just find a way to surpass any amount of intelligence and entertain despite it's own stupidity, that's why I will see this movie. That, and because it has Dexter.
15. john matrix - May 22, 2009 8:35 AM
THE GAME
16. DragMamba - May 22, 2009 7:29 PM
jimbob is right and that's pathetic. There's no way a spoiler should be let out in the first trailer.
17. Intelligent - May 23, 2009 12:45 PM
It didn't give anything away. If you paid attention, if he gets to 30 wins he gets set free. That just shows him winning one.
18. Leo - May 23, 2009 1:57 PM
sweet gunz
BEER fails to show us how women really look like
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19. Hal - May 24, 2009 11:03 AM
I just played SOUL CALIBER IV and what I took away from it is 1.) the bigger a woman's boobs, the tighter and more shredded their clothing and 2.) Darth Vader will unexpectedly show up in the darndest of places to fight you (as in a fantasy/period dueling game) - if these plot developments are both present in this "game", count my $15 in the pot.
20. Ashy - May 24, 2009 2:04 PM
All i know is i just lost the game.
21. peter pan - May 24, 2009 5:06 PM
meh, seems a bit boring
22. peter pan - May 24, 2009 5:07 PM
meh, seems a bit boring
23. Rhialto - May 25, 2009 1:48 PM
A fascinating story! Looking forward to see more trailers!
24. chad - May 27, 2009 3:39 PM
lol imagine t-bagging in this game
25. frank - May 29, 2009 1:31 AM
Like Surrogate, but stupider? There's a few mind-controlled simulacra movies coming out now, I guess.
26. mary-ann - June 8, 2009 10:56 PM
oh god. i think i mean i know this is gonna be awsome!!