Gamer

Ya know? When push comes to shove, I am a red blooded woman, and I can't avoid a Gerard Butler movie for too long. He's so dreamy. Swoon. Well, he done let me down. Sure, you can tell from the previews exactly what kind of movie it's going to be, but the cast was pretty great. (OK the cast was mildly above average) Kyra Sedgwick, Amber Valetta, Michael C. Hall, my boy Gerry. But it delivered exactly what you expect. Crap.

In the interest of full disclosure I'll admit that I couldn't even full focus on the movie. I was watching at home and my mind wandered, I surfed the web, I text messaged. But what I did watch did not excite me. I feel like this is one of those movies people will watch in a few decades and laugh about what we silly people in the early 2000s thought technology would be like. Some kid laying in a huge empty room, random images pop up on the screen, people pop in as virtual, video phone calls that you don't even have to answer. And if several come at once, they go to different places (in the air) and can also see each other. The basic premise is horrendous. Very reminiscent of Death Race which wasn't all that either. Take a death row inmate, have them fight to kill each other and broadcast it for the masses. In Gamer the creepy killers have a chip implanted in their head that their "gamers" link to and control. It started innocently enough. The average Joe Schmo can sign up to control a gorgeous actor in a virtual world, hook up with other gorgeous people, and live a fantasy life. All the while being a big fat gross slob eating waffles whole swimming in syrup (I actually had to look away).

I can't even get any more into it. Nothing about it was good. I am terribly disappointed!