Tag[]
- "In this episode we ask the question: Can the filmmakers who brought us the Hong Kong Cocktail really deliver a boring movie? We discuss Gamer."
Movie Summary[]
Premise[]
In a future mind-controlling game, death row convicts are forced to battle in a 'Doom'-type environment. Convict Kable, controlled by Simon, a skilled teenage gamer, must survive thirty sessions in order to be set free.
Story[]
Each week Kable, a death-row inmate, battles his fellow prisoners in a violent online game called "Slayers," his every move controlled by a young gamer's remote device. To the players, Kable and the other inmates are just simulated characters. But, to a resistance group that opposes the game's inventor, Kable is a critical component of their plan to end the inventor's form of high-tech slavery.
- “For those unfamiliar with Gerard Butler, imagine a less-doughy Russell Crowe without the charisma.”
—Dan @02:55
- 300 @03:05
- Untraceable @20:40
Better Than[]
- 10,000 B.C. @35:20
Final Judgments[]
- Bad-Bad Movie (Elliott) @34:15
- Bad-Bad Movie (Matt) @34:45
- Bad-Bad Movie (Dan) @35:25
Episode Highlights[]
Tangents[]
Movie Pitches[]
Quotes[]
- “This is the script that Woody Allen, David Mamet, and Ingmar Bergman worked on before Bergman died.”
—Elliott @11:45
Listener Mail[]
Letters[]
- "Similarities Between Dan and John McCoy" from John Siracusa @41:50
Recommendations[]
- Night of the Demon (1957) by Jacques Tourneur (Dan) @48:45
- The Room (2003) by Tommy Wiseau (Matt) @50:40
Mentioned In[]
- Episode 65: Old Dogs @24:50