New Movie Shows A Grisly Future For MMOs

@Zaranell: Indeed.

Marilyn Manson is making a major comeback!

Thut

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Anyone ever see this? Not quite the same, but it's what I thought of as soon as I saw the description.

@Trencher: The stupid camera angles are called high and low angle shots and dutch angle style shot, used to make things look weird or crazy. I'm affraid they have been around far longer than MTV.

Chris Taylor

@Jonaconda: Gerald Butler was also in P.S. I Love You, so don't go to a movie based on a star alone.

Peter Strauss

I think the trailer captivated the atmosphere of and FPS game really well. Some of the scenes (maps) reminded me of Killzone 2

@Trencher: He's just throwing out generalizations about how anything directed towards the youth is stupid, cause you know, darn those kids these days and such.

Peter Strauss

@Mortav: my response exactly

Peter Strauss

@KillerBee: MTV has camera angles?

@Tom-Servo: It was Citizen Game at one point.

@Farnic: Yea he's an amazing actor loved him in six feet under and dexter still that trailer was meh...

Wibnar

@Gam3r: Not Death Race at all.

The American trailer is cooler, makes it look more like Transformers level of dumb fun.

Marylin Manson is getting around lately in 'trailers.' Unless I'm mistaken on who is singing.

A movie opposed to video games. Shocking.

The fact is, Hollywood is afraid of the games industry because it has surpassed hollywood in quality ages ago.

Valnen

1. dont panic! regenerating health.

2. can you say reboot! ?

kitsuneconundrum

@THIS_USERNAME_IS_TAKEN:
The "hardcore" cover is by Marilyn Manson. From what I understand, his cover is more well-known/popular than Eurythmics's original version.

Which is a shame, because the original is better.

@Komrade Kayce: How about a Zone of the Enders movie?

Jacob Stephen Cook

@Komrade Kayce: I liked the shadow series, and enders game. speaker and on suck ass.

@MasterNinja: First thing that popped into my mind as well. lets see how the rest of the week plays out, this could get interesting.

goboard117

@Komrade Kayce: He's not a bigot, he just has morals which he refuses to bend under pressure.

Jacob Stephen Cook

You know, this is most likely going to be bad. Buuut, I think it's possible it could be pretty cool.

There is a hint of something good in the trailer. The sense of doing these amazing things, but realizing how terrible they are and wanting 'out'...could be interesting. I'm not ready to call it quite yet.

jasoncourt

@ShazBo:

Same here. It will probobly be horrible, but if Mr. Morgan is in it, well I can't pass it up. However, the whole time he is on screen I will be asking why he doesn't just use a syringe on someone and set up a seran wrap room.

@KillerBee:

I think they're still working on it without Petersen. At least last I heard.

TriplEEE13

that poster looks cheaply done.

kilikafinal

@Jonaconda:
On the other hand, this looks more like it will be something like Stay Alive.

You know, where if you die in the game you die in real life.

TrjnRabbit

The Game with Michael Douglas was kick ass.

@Ruzzel26: *BOOT*

@KillerBee:

tbh I never got into any of the books after game, because of what you just said. People kept telling me the series went downhill and I didn't want to ruin one of the best things I've ever read.

But yeah. Don't like Card mainly cause hes a bit of a bigot and an ass. Glad I'm not the only one to think that.

@Komrade Kayce: Card is a pompous dickhead. It shows in the later Ender's novels.

Ender's Game is fantastic, the rest of the series and Card's work is shit. Card has stated that he has always disliked Ender's Game, but it "had" to be written to get his "real" message out.

@XForce:

The ball crushing and Ender finding out he just committed genocide, as well as all those fighters he was sacrificing were piloted by real people, were the moments of the book that stick in my brain.

@KillerBee:

Really? Thanks!

I dont know what to think on Card. I dont like the man himself, but I can't fault him for Ender.

I was in this movie!

@crabperson:
I was wondering the same thing.

It says "Gamer" on IGN. Unless it's a typo.

Tom-Servo

The concept for this movie is horrid. For starters, how the hell do you respawn?

@Komrade Kayce: A script was written and was put in preproduction, but the movie was scrapped last November. Wolfgang Petersen was originally set to direct, but Card didn't like the direction the film was going.

It has been optioned by another studio and is again in preproduction.

@Polzin: That he did, after brutally beating another kid to death as a kid.

But I think putting the simulation game parts into film would be some trippy shit, and don't know how well that would translate.

XForce

@Ruzzel26: Gaming?

THIS IS AZEROTH!

NeonLight

I agree the trailer sucked interms of trying to tell you what was going on.

The movie still looks decent

@Silentkiller2774: tell me about it. now correct me if i'm wrong but didn't Ender kill him with that spectacular ball-crushing?

They should've just cast Corey Haim and Corey Feldman and called it......uh, I got nothin'.

Gerard butler eh? THIS IS A MASSIVELY MADE MULTIPLAYER GAME!

"Avalon" from 2001 had this movie beat by 8 years

keppj0nes

I'm not sure if this is awesome or not.

Since the trailer explains nothing for me (and the fact I can't speak Italian) I doubt I'll be seeing this flick anytime soon.

It also looks like it's trying to spread the message that "video games are BAD."

@Komrade Kayce:
Good question, you would have thought with all the things Hollywood is making into movie, they would have made an Enders Game movie. Complete with ball crushing shower scene!

Oh look! Another generic movie stereotyping gamers into one category.

Nexious

@Komrade Kayce:
How would they do the computer simulation, him killing two children his age, and yaaaaaaaaaah..

ktspaz

@Roufuss: Well, its in Italian, so we wouldn't expect you to.

crabperson

Looks pretty sweet to me unlike a certain comic book movie that came out recently <_<

screwsociety

lame sauce approved.

Quick EA! GRAB THIS IP!

Oban

@Polzin: Dammit, now I'm going to have to see it.

crabperson

I'm pretty sure they already made this movie before, it was called the MATRIX!

@Kvitne:

Yes you did Michael C Hall is in it.

I thought the movie looked stupid at first but after noticing Michael C Hall I just might give it a chance.

ShazBo

FOR TONIGHT, WE GAME IN HELL!!!!!

Mal-Content

I liked it better when it was called "The Running Man" and had Arnold playing the big, dumb, muscled hero instead of that new walking steroid Hollywood seems to favour these days.

More like LAME hahahaha
Seriously it looks horrific.

...what the fuck is the point of that trailer?

If it wasn't for the summary by Kotaku, I would have no idea what was going on there.

Am I the only one who was surprised by the hardcore cover of "Sweet Dreams"?
Also, the movie looks totally awful.

@terebi: yes. that movie was fucking crazy.

@Jonaconda: Was Existenz the one where that guy made the guns out of weird fish...things?

terebi

Why not just get it over with an make an Enders Game movie.

It would have video games. It would have anti-grav sports games. It would have space bug aliens. It would have little boys deciding the fate of a galactic war.

So why not.

Michael C. Hall is in it too, maybe we will see some Dexter style kills :P

@Kvitne: i was thinking the exact same thing...

anyone else excited for Season 4? lol

Marilyn Manson again?

Michall C Hall is in it? Awesome.

I hope there's no tea-bagging scene! I'm serious :(

I know I'll end up seeing this, despite the immediate doubts I have about an actioner released that late in the blockbuster season's viability. Sometimes, you find some real gems released amidst the shit that studios typically dump upon us in August and September.

Gerard Butler was great in 300, loved him in Rock N Rolla... this could be cool. Here's hoping for some nice action sequences, with a bit of the mindfuck twists featured in Existenz. The Matrix gets all the mainstream attention for being the most successful "virtual reality kills you" -type deal, but Existenz was a weird, cool flick that flew under the radar. I also liked the 13th Floor, which basically got crushed by the Matrix that summer.

Well, at least they got the crazy ultra-violent first person shooter part down pretty well. And, in the end, isn't that the point?

Wait, is the movie called Game or Gamer?

crabperson

Did I see Dexter in there?

Kvitne

I think the people they control are prison inmates and if they live long enough they are set free.

Gam3r

I may watch this for Gerard Butler alone. I couldn't care less about the actual content but the dude's nice to look at :|

terebi

bad publicity ftl

I've loved Gerard since Timeline, but dang this movie looks a little stupid

Wow, that kid Logan Lerman, goes to my school.

Vavaylah

Wow......just wow. Could that look any stupider? Another crappy movie with MTV camera angles and ADD edits for the Halo kids.

Leonidas and Luda....*shudder*

w0rd

CrimsonV

... k.

Mortav

THIS IS GAMING!!!

Ruzzel26

Trailer's up on XBL as well.

Dexter, Peter, and Leonidas in the same movie?! Sold bro.

Detre

@Chris Taylor: Yer of course they have, it's just the way any show on MTV really over uses them... any program they show, doesn't seem to have a shot more than a few seconds, has to have crazy camera angles, and slow motion/distortion effects and quick soundtrack changes... and after a while it just gets really boring.

Another piece of hollywood shite that I'll be avoiding like gonorrhea mixed with razor blades and lava.

That will bring the total number of blockbuster films that I wont be watching this year to...oh...the same as before: all of them.

Best bit was on 42 secs - cracking ass on the billboard

(watches everybody play it back ! lol)

@Ruzzel26: in sovijet russia mmo plays you!

turius

@Peter Strauss: Eh, you can't fault a guy for testing the chick-flick waters as a source of income. My point being, he does quite well in action roles, and plays a cool tough guy pretty well to boot in Guy Ritchie's last flick, which required more acting chops than the balls-to-the-wall 300 (I loved it, for the record).

Yep, Existenz was a Cronenberg movie. The guy made The Fly remake, Videodrome, and a whole bunch of weird shit. Existenz was one of his most bizarre, and definitely best seen with a friend so you can discuss what the hell you just saw when it's all over.

I'm ashamed to say I watched Stay Alive. I wish I hadn't, but when I get drunk and its free premium HBO/Cinemax weekend on DirecTV, well goddammit I aim to see as much free stuff as I can.

@okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under): i was wondering why that kid had such clean clothes... not the typical gamer me thinks

@Andy misses his 360 :(: hello???
running man , the 80s classic flick with schwarzenegger???

that was actually one of these movies that sucked balls but had a really touching message behind the action.

funny... i remember some movie called.. 'avalon'...

wulfsaga2

Well, the premise did sound kinda interesting until I read this "He has to escape, find his family, get revenge, blah blah blah."

Hollywood never seizes to amaze me. $100 says they ripped the unique beginning off of a really good script which they turned down years ago.

yutaro

You people, what the fuck, really.

The movie looks stupid? You mean, like it's SUPPOSED TO? Yeah, I'm sure a person who is being controlled by a video game is going to be SRS BSNZ.

Sean Johnson

@KillerBee: Nah, he's not so bad in the other enders books. They're there, but he doesn't preach.

Now his other books are more then a little preachy.

Brandon Tattrie

Awful, confusing trailer and the music is even worse...

Cloudbusting

It's from the guys who made Crank 1&2 so I'm there!

NunianVonFuch

@turius: So expected, yet still funny when I saw it.

@Polzin: Definitely excited for season 4. Can't come soon enough!

Also, I will see this simply because he's in it. I love all of his work.

Kvitne

Woah! Did i see Dexter with a knife at his throat in there?

Also, funny how some scenes look exactly like the train depot map from cod4.

@Jacob Stephen Cook:

It's sad really that a man is being criticized about having a spine.

cavalerie

it just looks like the death race (remake) with more of an on foot section. the trailer basically tell the whole story.

@terebi: haha, this comment is better than all the rest!

@dgkz0idberg: I think you need to get over your stereotype of what a gamer should look like.

@Jonaconda: Holy shit! You just gave me the name of the movie I loved when I was younger but until now could not remember. Thank you.

Was that just Michael C. Hall i saw? Awesax.

@KillerBee: It's from the directors of Crank, so expect those crazy angles and frantic editing. I'll see it because they're behind it.

freecajunlove

@Peter Strauss: He redeems himself by being in The Phantom of the Opera, which is one of those movies that practically guarantees you getting laid after watching with your SO (I know I did).

Or what was the term..."Notebooked"?

first of all, i never thought someone had, or would ever cover sweet dreams

second, i may see this for the same reason i saw such epic classics as crank, crank 2, and death race.

it just plain looks awesome, i could care less about any story or real lot development, but it looks like it has action to the brim, but then again i could just go play a video game

@ShazBo: funny thing is, he probably won't kill any one...

@KillerBee: and this is the 2nd time in less than 7 days that Marilyn Manson has made an appearance on Kotaku, can we go for a hat trick?

Would any real "gamer" play a game called "slayers"? Better yet, would any decent game company name their next blockbuster hit "slayers"?

I wouldn't... that name sucks.

lolomfgisuck

@scuba2steve: You get me.

@THIS_USERNAME_IS_TAKEN: oh my god, that made me feel old.

So, what? This is like a gamer's version of Matrix or something? Some guy gets sucked into his gaming persona or this is some Other reality where video games are actually alive or something?

Now, isn't that a creepy thought. (wiggling my eyebrows here!) What if WE'RE not real and WE'RE part of some really bored guy's video game or movie?

PsiWren

not to knitpick but i think it's funny that even with a huge image of the poster next to you intro paragraph you STILL got the name of the movie wrong. it's called "gamer" there's an 'R'...yr tag is wrong too.

@dgkz0idberg: Running Man is exactly the film I was thinking of with this. Bravo.

I mean, does Gerard Butler want to be turned into another Internet meme?

On a side note: Hey! It's the guy from Dexter.

@ShazBo: Same here. But here's a chance he might just be in the movie for a few seconds :(

@Ruzzel26: What's the point of this movie?
The definitive gamer movie that compiles everything someone has to know about game is already out for some time...

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Bokusatsu_Tenshi

This looks similar to the japanese movie Avalon. About this girl who jacks into video games and fights online and is world famous for her skills. She wants out of the game......this may be the movie Avalon Steven Spielberg is making though I doubt he does remakes. Anyway if you haven't seen this movie it isn't easy to find in the US but it is good.

Hmmm... I haven't decided if I'm offended yet. Meanwhile, that movie looks HORRIBLE.

Oddly enough, even though I knew by the name who it was, I could only recognize him as the same guy from "300" when he was making that stupid face at 1:06.

GravityBoots

Maybe this is a really dumb question, but why was it in spanish?, cause I don't know spanish.

V12themonster

Actually, this movie has a chance of not sucking. It's a neat idea, and doesn't sound all that anti-game to me, though it could certainly be seen that way. If anything, it seems more of a commentary on those hyperactive racist teenage sociopaths you find playing online FPS's. It needs a new title, though.