Maybe they should introduce it as a mini-game = wire-brush, pull through and oil to prevent stoppages… or maybe not

Speaking of which, I need to do that, haven’t cleaned my FAL or my AR for… a while, lol. My own little torture test, but really just me being lazy… But so far in my accidental torture test, no jams yet, so that’s good news…

Unless they clean the carbon residue build-up from the barrel and working parts from time-to-time the useful life of an automatic weapon is a lot less than tens of thousands of rounds.

But ok, if they think putting that in the game is more important than something as simple as having the brass eject out of the correct side, then more power to them. Personally logic would have told me that it’s far easier to model a weapon after a real weapon, than to try to invent something just so you can see brass flying in front of your face…

In STALKER series, someone really curious about weapons would have noticed quickly how much the developers have wanted to be closed to the reality and how much they wanted to share this with the player, for exemple, taking care of all the incompatilbilities between weapons, accessories and ammos from OTAN, VARSOVIE or derivated weapons (so many different ones in this game !)

Not all the games are proposing this kind of details about weapons : Taking them as exemples of what is bad in First Person Shooter, today, is just kidding.
Halo is Sci-Fi and I guess Sci-Fi needn’t to be realistic, at least about technologies.
About story, that’s something else !!!

…Hell, Joe ! I love shooters ! Really.
Well, I prefer playing them than watching only as I am still owner of a brain, but I can really have fun with a
Provided they have either a good story(Bourne’s,…) or even a simple excuse of a story (Rambo4,… )
The only thing is, please, just not a very-bad-and-yet-seen-thousand-of-times-in-earlier-80′s-story

I keep reading all these contrasting comments to 80s action movies. What makes this one so different from them? Why do you think they are better? It is the same stuff, it’s all fantasy and fun. No thought required. STOP THINKING.

STOP IT! STOP WINING!

And I just figure those guys at the end didn’t care because they didn’t care much for Castle. They didn’t seem to like him very much… But yah, pretty unlikely that they would be so “easy breezy” about it, lol.

I thought it was entertaining, didn’t say it was a well made movie, lol.

There are a lot of other “improabilities” working this special lacking way in the film : Another exemple, I think, is the kid using his computer to save The Kable at the very end, for exemple… He does this with a computer checked (and not kept!) by the Police, infested by thousands of spams and malwares, and probably upon an heavy survey from police AND Castle’s peoples ?!
But, the worst improbability, for me, is The Kable request at the final end, and the fact it is just so nicely accepted by Castle’s peoples.
These one who in fact would have a lot more interest in doing the whole things an other way : We should assist at some kind of never-ending “Prison Break” plot beyond the jail, with a dark company at the head of which everyone wants to be, and, instead what we see is a little crew of sports fan being finally so gentle with the “heros”. Maximum dumb reached.

On another hand, I am agree about Castle’s danse : One of the rare intense moments adding a bit of subtleness.
With a “Gladiator-Kind” hero, it was absolutely necessary to have some charismatic vilains and this does the trick according to me.

Hell, 790, I am perhaps french but I know my syntax isn’t fine at all ! Well, let’s say I just guess it strongly.
Thank you, whatever
Yep, you did a good briefing about “The Long Walk”.
It might be added this one has not a pitch for spectacular things at all: A lot more psychological experience ; no vehicles exploding, no ranged gunfights, no martial arts with wall-jumps, etc…
Only dozains of marathon walkers, a long but totally classical road, and, at least a jeep with some soldiers behind it all. Of course, you have watchers all around the country and mediatic cover: This is still some sport event!
But no the usual extreme-comdemned-to-death prisoneers here:
Only young peoples having signed to be here, only because they are poor and want the winner prize, for a better life.
The problem is everyone, except the last standing still, will die on this never-ending road: That’s the game.
No sleep, no pee, no poo, just walk and never stop or do anything stupid, you have signed so you’ll get shot or smashed by the soldiers jeep behind.
Some peoples in the watching crow across the road are waiting for this, they won’t help you. Others are basically affraid to do anything, even if the event is not closed in some kind of pens at is is usually the case in this kind of story.
The road is long and this is both physically and mentally a very hard ordeal; you can at least talk to your concurrents (a good way to not fall asleep) That helps to not be alone.
You can soon become friend of them… And like at war, you know you’ll perhaps see them dying.

The pretty f#c#ing difference is, here, it could be the damn good only thing you want…

The dumbest part though, was him throwing up and pissing in the gas tank of the truck… Why didn’t he just keep the bottle on him instead of drinking it??? And those dump trucks were driving pretty freakin fast…

I still like The Running Man more, but this movie wasn’t that bad, pretty entertaining… Too many ugly girl boobs though, ugh, I prefer no nudity than ugly nudity…

**Slight spoiler for those who hasn’t seen it**
I just saw this movie with a friend, and I’m sure someone already said it, but just in case, I just want to mention that the movie actually does explain why Castle was trying to kill Kable, and his wife wasn’t forced into prostitution, she volunteered to be a member of Society as a paid job. That scene in the child custody hearing office place established that. When he looks at her records and sees that she’s an icon in Society, she responds with “It’s a job…”

***SPOILER***
Remember the Kable was one of Castle’s first test subjects for his mind control technology and he made him kill his friend as part of the testing, to see if he can really control someone enough to make them do things they don’t want to do. In the end he wanted to put that to the test one last and ultimate time by making Kable kill his daughter, but, well, you saw the ending…
***END SPOILER***

Anyway, I was pretty entertained by it, and I didn’t see that they were saying all gamers are fat or old, that’s just Society, their stereotype for gamers seemed more like young kids like Simon.

And there were some small little tidbits in there just for gamers, like that guy “tea-bagging” the other guy after he killed him, lol. I’ve been doing that in first person shooters from WAY back in the day in the ORIGINAL Rainbow Six. No, not this garbage Ubisoft makes now, back when they were developed by a company chaired by Tom Clancy himself called Redstorm Entertainment. But back then, we didn’t call it tea bagging, we just referred to it as humping their corpse, lol.

For the non-gamers in the forum reading this, when you got killed in first person shooters, a lot of them would show your dead body in 3rd person view, and of course those people who are already dead can “spectate” from a 3rd person perspective anyone they like. So when you kill someone, you walk over their dead body in the game, and hit the crouch button. When you’re crouched all the way down, it’s almost like you’re sitting on them, then you just keep tapping the crouch button so you’re moving up and down on them like you’re humping them, lol. This is usually seen by the person you just killed, and sometimes other spectators see it and it’s sometimes pretty funny. Yes it’s stupid, but dumb things entertain us ok? lol

Yeah for those that haven’t read “The Long Walk” its a dark story about a contest to see who could walk the farthest without stoping. Anyone that stops to take a break gets three warnings then there shot dead. The walk never stops til there’s just one person left. They don’t ever stop walking, its 24/7 across the US.
Correct me if I’m wrong on any of that FR_dZastreux.
I recall it had a pretty dark ending.

To get back to “The Long Walk”, yes, this is a short story, written in USA in 1979, and it might become soon a movie produced by the same guy who made “the mist”.
I am not sure this novel could ever become a correct movie, but this will always remain for me one of the greatest simple short SF writing I have read, with a so hit-you ending!
“GAMER”, “à contrario” would be such a poor novel if it was written ! …But as a movie, I suppose it is offering a good experience enough to pay for your cinema ticket (Only leave before the upcoming happy-ending, if you don’t want to vomit your popcorns …)

A great allegory of our current State,,,

In “GAMER” case, this is even an incredible silly and empty happy ending you just want to skip before it ever happens.

Not that all the game-to-the-death stories are ending this kind of way… For exemple, Stephen King also wrote (under Richard Bachman name too) an older novel called “The Long Walk” : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Walk
At the end of it there’s nor accomplished revenge neither happy family taking holidays after the slaughter-moments.

…But, well, you don’t need to know the end of anything : Only that “Gamer” has a too much attended, stupid and empty nonsense of ending you will hate except if you are less than 8 old. If this is the case, I am not sure you were supposed to watch such a violent movie !

Once these two huge defects (“no-surprises story” and “silly happy ending”) put appart, “Gamer” has also a lot of qualities (yes !) and is paradoxically not a totally unbrained movie : Art concepts are mostly very good, sometimes excellent, action rythm is fast, well as it has to be in a movie related to actual videogames, perhaps sometimes a bit too much fragmented (I love fast things but what’s the point if you cannot even understand what’s happening ?) and there are some very well illustrated intellectualized society questions.

Of course all the possible polemics about if videogames are a danger or not, and generally about recent technologies, are underlined ; globally in a nice fashion way.
The oldest and most very usual polemics are here also : “Condemned-to-death aren’t all guilty and deserve perhaps a chance”, “The richest rules, and often prefer to reduce the number of poors in making more or less directly killing them instead of helping them to rise”, “When the power is too much concentrated, this is dangerous”, etc…

Nothing new here in the background, but without being really transcendent, there are although some intense moments, likely to bring these ideas upon the usual level of what you’ll have in most of the unbrained movies to store in this category.

Please note I don’t feel too high for this kind of cinema : I like, sometimes, watching unbrained movies, zombie movies, and even hollywood biggest without-soul blockbusters, if I am in a good mood. That’s just I am sad it usually lacks them not so much to really be descent good movies

The previews of Gamer make him look twisted and controlling… not a far stretch