I saw the movie Gamer earlier in the week with Ron, John, and Don. If you “ah” the “on” in Jason we all have rhyming names.

Right – so the film was bad. It had some really clever ideas (mostly ripped from Running Man and Smash TV), there were some really oddball amusing scenes (including a dance number), and I appreciate the subtle humour that ran beneath the whole thing. But they did it all wrong – the editing, acting, etc, were terrible.

In the future, you can jump into a convict’s body and play live “human puppet” action games. I was completely willing to take this for granted – it’s a fun idea. But the action sequences which should have been insanely cool, were completely scattered and incomprehensible. Just a random sequence of explosions and flying debris and quick camera cuts. We never saw Kable winning or losing – he was just always shooting stuff coming at him from random directions. They go into the “slayers” game a couple of times, and it never really makes any sense what he’s doing. At least in Running Man, you knew Arnold had to fight the hockey guy.

Kable wins! Or something. Maybe? Who knows?

The film also had a shocking amount of sexual content for a 14A film – I guess Canadian kids are really perverted. There’s an (actually pretty clever) hedonist “puppet” playworld that figures into the film that makes Second Life look pretty tame. Unexpectedly, Milo Ventimiglia from Heroes shows up in a leather jumpsuit, looking to be disciplined. Kindof a brainbender. Definitely not appropriate for littler kids despite the moderate rating.