Was going to say the same. It's literally any roleplaying environment. All of the adult text roleplaying sites are like that too. Found it funny he thought that was unrealistic when it was probably the most realistic part.
The NPCs are real people controlled by a computer, they are low risk inmates who get a chance of freedom if they survey a game in slayer by being an NPC, that's why john is there with a broom
3. NPCs have to survive 3 rounds instead of 30. However no one controls them, they have predetermined routes and actions that they will continue to do as long as they are capable. In one of the earlier scenes there’s an NPC with half their face missing but they’re still continuing their actions. It’s brutal because you can see the genuine fear in their eyes.
Honestly, this was such a missed opportunity. Having a movie about people's free will being stripped from them while everyone thinks of it as entertainment is terrifying, kinda like a Being John Malkovich kind of deal
@@eddydiaz2609 The Matrix has almost nothing in common with this film. In Gamer one person is basically just remote controlling another person, they're not connected to a giant VR simulation. The Matrix didn't really explore free will that much, more just Cartesianism to some extent but even then it wasn't really very philosophical beyond the basic premise.
What in the absolute FUCK does your search history look like? I see you everywhere I'm genuinely starting to think you have no life and just watch YT all day or I'm going crazy
I feel bad for Michael C Hall, he was at a high point in his career with one of the best seasons of Dexter yet, then he was in this piece of shit then the next few seasons for Dexter were bad so I blame Gamer(2009) for the downfall of Dexter
This entire video I was just immensely distracted by the fact that the Big Bad Evil Guy is the guy that plays Dexter Morgan on that TV show my mom used to watch.
I saw this movie when it came out. I was 22 and actually considered myself an avid gamer. I felt ashamed to have watched it. It was pointless, overly over the top for the sake of being over the top, and it felt as if an edge lord 13 year old wrote the screenplay because of all of the language and sex man's violence involved. It was an interesting watch but my God it was fucking terrible.
I know this isn't the point but.. waffle dip gang for real. Why pour and receive inevitable sogginess when you could dip and have crispy waffle every bite. Obviously a small ramekin of syrup is sufficient.
The idea of "death row has to fight by being controlled by some nerdy ass kids" actually sounds like a fun idea but it requires someone with an actual vision and a team with actual talent.
I love how they portray the gaming world in this movie. It's so bad... Loved this by the way. Been following you and watching your videos recently for the past month BionicPIG and, I'm enjoying them alot actually. Keep up the good work my friend.
the most epic badass gamer is obviously Henry Cavill, he even missed his call with Zack Snyder when he got the role of Superman, coz he was playing WoW
There's one thing that kind of popped out to me in this video and it's where you say that you don't think people would just drink, stand around in weird outfits and have sex if a game like Society existed. But at least in my experience, that's pretty much every RP server in an MMO ever
Lmaoo same here but I was like 14-15. Felt awkward as shit watching it but thankfully after me n my pops just roasted the shit out of the movie so it was good
Tbh this is why age ratings exist. Not to prevent kids from watching, just to tell you what movies you shouldn't watch with your parents... Also 10?? I feel old...
I loved this movie. The NPCs only have no body armor, no control, etc. If they survive, they get out, or something along those lines. High risk, high reward. That's talked about in some of the early exposition
The part where crazy dude is sweeping was explained. you can choose to be put into the environment as an uncontrollable NPC and if you survive only one game you get set free. pretty much all the NPCs die so the ods are against you.
Cable back breaking that innocent avatar guy and the movie being fine with it reminds me of how in WW84 Diana just r_pes some random mall patron for a week and it's like ....
During my Logan Lerman phase, as a 12 year old, I got my mom to rent this movie for us and we watched not even two minutes of it before we both cut it off. So thank you for watching it for me, because I had no desire to actually watch it because it scarred me, but not knowing what happens has also haunted me.
I think you didn't watch carefully enough. They explain the npc thing. If you make it as npc through one of the matches u get out or something like that
I watched this when I was watching Dexter because I love Michael C Hall and the only bit I fondly remember is his funky lil dance and terry crews singing. Because huh? Wha- why is this.. on my screen..? Who blessed me with this?
I remember I was so hyped for this movie and I watched and I thought it was amazing. I tried rewatching it a couple weeks ago- couldn't even get past the first like 20 minutes
Say what you want about it being an edgy movie but you gotta give credit that there's a lot of great scenes. Also Society is a parody of Second Life, not of gaming or gamers in general. Second Life is literally as depraved and degenerate as Society in Gamer.
@@LazyKingAus it can't be called an action movie of you can't see/comprehend the "action" because they filmed it like Micheal J Fox was the camera man after they gave him a 5 hour energy, and an 8 ball of blow.
I remember wanting to see this bc the actor from Dexter was in it. I remembered absolutely nothing about the movie at this point. Watched it once and banished it from my memory lol my brain did me a solid.
This director duo can't direct anything without using that obnoxious crank style of theirs, plus the only reason I remember this movie was the obnoxious use of Manson's Sweet Dreams even though I like Manson.
I was playing animal crossing while watching this and my pig resident walked up to me when I heard bionic pig say “or are you a casual animal crossing player
The npcs are actually explained its during the beginig where they give the whole info dump. The npcs in the slayers game are death row inmates who instead of being controled by a player they are controled by ai and because they arent actively fighting they only have to survive one round instead of 30 but the thing is slayers get points for killing them and they often get killed in the crossfire so next to none actually survive a single round.
this is the first video i''ve watched from you and you've made me realise I've watched this movie before like fucking years ago... I'm pretty sure this is a repressed memory.
If rich people could force prisoners into a “Battle Royal” type situation they would, don’t lie, the consequences just stop them. Also it would be this convoluted.
With the amount of rich and powerful people (including many politicians) who SHOULD be in prison, for many of the same things the prisoners are there for, yeah I don’t think this scenario is much of a stretch. Just pointing and laughing at the tax evaders and sex traffickers fighting for their lives, because they just weren’t rich enough to get away with it. What noobs!
You want a great movie that really gets what it's like to be an epic gamer? Hardcore Henry. That movie still puts a smile on my face. I watched it pretty late in life, and it was like rediscovering fps games for the first time.
16:25 the NPC are the other convicts that get a set program and only have to survive the one round but have absolutely no control during their only 1 time but if they live they get to be free
I actually used to watch movie a ton when I was a little kid I loved it for some odd reason now its like one of those odd movies ill rewatch every couple of years as some odd guilty pleasure cuz of how insane it is.
Apparently, the two writers and directors were spending every night during production getting hammered all the live long night and then going directly to the studio from the bar to film the movie during the day. That explains quite a lot.
This movie would be god-tier if in the end after the dude said "well-played" the world "collapsed" and it was revealed it was a new-tech VR game. To make the ending even better, make the "True gamer" who played all that some incredibly famous actor like Patrick Stewart or Brian Blessed and end the movie on a line like "frankly, I don't see the appeal, the plot is a mess!" Instant cult following.
The fact there's a freaking film called gamer from 2009 that almost no one has talked about for the last decade is something which elludes me.
There is Joeseppi
@@Intuitive-idiot last decade.
And Dexter is in it
I never heard of it until now
They are trying to forget it
Jared Leto prepped his Joker role by watching this movie on repeat for 10 years.
It caused irreparable damage to his Psyche. Making him one of the most suitable actors to play the joker.
It wasn't even humanly possible but he still made it work
Thats not fair. Not even the trainwreck of gamer can explain Jared Leto's Joker
@@ironwraith852 lol ehm no
@@viggoulander9671 I apologize, I must not have been clear. It was a joke! I hope you understand now, sir.
“everyone just stands around dresses weird and drinks” yea literally vr chat
Anime girls and Ugandan echindas
Was going to say the same. It's literally any roleplaying environment. All of the adult text roleplaying sites are like that too. Found it funny he thought that was unrealistic when it was probably the most realistic part.
It's literally Second Life with real people. If anyone still remembers that existed... and still exists actually.
At least it got vr chat right
Literally just furries
The NPCs are real people controlled by a computer, they are low risk inmates who get a chance of freedom if they survey a game in slayer by being an NPC, that's why john is there with a broom
That plot point could be its own film
If thats the case that is an insanely dumb reason
This whole film is insanely dumb anyways
3. NPCs have to survive 3 rounds instead of 30. However no one controls them, they have predetermined routes and actions that they will continue to do as long as they are capable. In one of the earlier scenes there’s an NPC with half their face missing but they’re still continuing their actions. It’s brutal because you can see the genuine fear in their eyes.
@@alexanderCXV yep that could have been a better film
The doctor is my favorite character from the bionicpigverse, followed by peta jones
Same lol
It's Peta Jones!
Of course he is….
He is the Doctor
I can fix that
Personally im a peta jones enjoyer
Obviously the people who made this epic relatable gamer movie knew what they were doing
That's right, its probs the most poggers movie
YOOOO it's the cultured dude!
It's crazy seeing you here lmao
Lmao I didn't know you would be here
Wooooooow soo funny because they didn’t actually know what they were doing, get it get it?? Omg haha joke of the millenium
Honestly, this was such a missed opportunity. Having a movie about people's free will being stripped from them while everyone thinks of it as entertainment is terrifying, kinda like a Being John Malkovich kind of deal
@@eddydiaz2609 The Matrix has almost nothing in common with this film. In Gamer one person is basically just remote controlling another person, they're not connected to a giant VR simulation. The Matrix didn't really explore free will that much, more just Cartesianism to some extent but even then it wasn't really very philosophical beyond the basic premise.
I me the whole idea behind the pill choice is free will Richard.
1984 anyone?
The Hunger Ganes meets The Matrix type of deal
This movie is just a whole drug trip inside a glitchy vr system tbh.
Which drug(s) is/are used? This may be the biggest mystery of Gamer (2009).
@@adamgray1753 ✨All of them ✨
@@MissLilyPlays how many drugs were used in the production of this film
Director: yes
Gamesplain much?
This movie didn't even age like milk. It aged like raw meat.
"Aged raw meat". Ahhh... only something that only the connoisseur of hobos can enjoy.
It was already raw chicken
This aged like a vax-free child.
Aged raw meat is jerky tho
@@sebsteyn1592 with heat
There a reason this movie was forgotten.
I didn't even know it existed until my g/f watched it on Tubi in July. The pickup truck is dope, though.
@@ItsDaJax the flim could of had something but failed but its still fun to watch.
The only way to make this movie tolerable is by watching it on a comfy gaming chair
With Cheeto stained fingers
What in the absolute FUCK does your search history look like? I see you everywhere I'm genuinely starting to think you have no life and just watch YT all day or I'm going crazy
Dang 6 hours ago
@@blacksabbath5300 we're all effectively going mad together.
Dude I see you everywhere
I feel bad for Michael C Hall, he was at a high point in his career with one of the best seasons of Dexter yet, then he was in this piece of shit then the next few seasons for Dexter were bad so I blame Gamer(2009) for the downfall of Dexter
I support this theory
A NEW SEASON IS MENT TO COME OUT IN NOVEMBER ! (i'm scaried.)
@@Torblis I really hope it’s good
@@Torblis I'm so excited about that! I'm tempted to rewatch the whole series before then
This entire video I was just immensely distracted by the fact that the Big Bad Evil Guy is the guy that plays Dexter Morgan on that TV show my mom used to watch.
"It's real life" so the T baging makes even less since
I guess I'm old I thought it was hilarious
@@escapedgoat5865 I was funny once I found out that they are being controlled by someone else
Tbh, teabagging *is* actually a war crime in real life, but its still cringe
@@synical69 is that in the geneva convention?
@@hunt7363 yep
I absolutely loved this movie when I was fourteen haha. Logan Lerman and the Dexter dude made me happy lol
really excited for you to tear it apart xD
I saw this movie when it came out. I was 22 and actually considered myself an avid gamer. I felt ashamed to have watched it. It was pointless, overly over the top for the sake of being over the top, and it felt as if an edge lord 13 year old wrote the screenplay because of all of the language and sex man's violence involved. It was an interesting watch but my God it was fucking terrible.
Even 9 year old me knew it would be a trainreck, I didn't even give it a chance.
the fact that Dexter is in this is so unsettling
Someone please remake this film or even turn it into a The Boys like drama where Esports teams are the players and we have oldschool COD beef going
Omg YES
@@MortusSweet one battlefront the inmates and the other Teens getting mad enough kill personally
Raze Tribe
Oh remember this movie, I remember the scene a guy just putting his waffle in a big bowl of syrup
Wait, you don’t do that? Humph...wow, you must be a total poser gamer. Pffft.
Ew
@@grace.stewartt4224 I know it’s gross
I know this isn't the point but.. waffle dip gang for real. Why pour and receive inevitable sogginess when you could dip and have crispy waffle every bite. Obviously a small ramekin of syrup is sufficient.
U
The idea of "death row has to fight by being controlled by some nerdy ass kids" actually sounds like a fun idea but it requires someone with an actual vision and a team with actual talent.
I love how they portray the gaming world in this movie. It's so bad... Loved this by the way. Been following you and watching your videos recently for the past month BionicPIG and, I'm enjoying them alot actually. Keep up the good work my friend.
god I watched this movie as a teenager and completely ERASED any memory of it up until now
YOU MADE ME REMEMBER
the most epic badass gamer is obviously Henry Cavill, he even missed his call with Zack Snyder when he got the role of Superman, coz he was playing WoW
Ok?
Almost missed it but yeah. Dude was so into the raid he was doing that being given the call to be superman had to wait for a bit
Soooo.... this is the drunken lovechild of Death Race and Ready Player One?
There's one thing that kind of popped out to me in this video and it's where you say that you don't think people would just drink, stand around in weird outfits and have sex if a game like Society existed. But at least in my experience, that's pretty much every RP server in an MMO ever
The worst part of the movie is that I watched it with my dad, most awkward shit. I was 10
Damn yo, watched it the same way at 10 as well
Lmaoo same here but I was like 14-15. Felt awkward as shit watching it but thankfully after me n my pops just roasted the shit out of the movie so it was good
Tbh this is why age ratings exist. Not to prevent kids from watching, just to tell you what movies you shouldn't watch with your parents...
Also 10?? I feel old...
@@RichardVSmall literally the most true thing I've ever read
Your dad probably should have shut it off, how did he think a rated r movie like that would be alright for a 10 year old.
No wayy Michael C Hall/Dexter played in this movie lmao. So sad, he's such a great actor
Why? He's one of the best parts of it. That dance number was the bomb!
Castle is the guy Dexter would most likely kill.
He's his own worst nightmare
I loved this movie. The NPCs only have no body armor, no control, etc. If they survive, they get out, or something along those lines. High risk, high reward.
That's talked about in some of the early exposition
Pig, I gotta say, your hair looks absolutely FLAWLESS! You got the good genes, man.
Perfection
Agreed!
This is Seizure!
*kicks you onto the floor while you shake*
I'll give props for the studio,it was a bold move to let an edgy 14 old direct the movie
IIRC, it was *two* edgy 14-year-olds who did the writing and directing.
You forgot the half the movie where they keep just zooming on on people eating
*GAMER:* A film so edgy, you can actually feel its edginess
cut deep into your cerebrum, slicing it into tiny little cubes.
I'm dying. He kills a random dude. Not even the guy controlling him.
If he saw the guy controlling him would you blame him tho? I wouldn't want to get within firing distance of that dude
Oh No Dexter... OH HOW THEY'VE MASACARED MY BOY!!!!!
pineapple
The whole review sounds like someone explaining the weird dream they had last night.
Wow. This is so sad. Alexa, do we live in a society?
How can you have a such a freaking big name cast . . . and produce this.
The part where crazy dude is sweeping was explained. you can choose to be put into the environment as an uncontrollable NPC and if you survive only one game you get set free. pretty much all the NPCs die so the ods are against you.
Shout out to Ludacris for getting these movies to always cast him as some type of super smart computer nerd.
There are plenty of people on death row that shouldn't be there, so it's kinda accurate
Did somebody say there’s a resistance? Yes, yes they did. Sounds like a job for Tribore Menendez.
This is just another story of good actors staring in a bad movie, like the actor who plays Castle is a pretty good actor
Nah the movie is good
You get what you expect nice Action Satire/parody a cheesy villain
I dont get what people expected in the comments
@@SchlaftaterNrzZzit wasn't even good in those regards, keep coping
this movie honestly had potential it just needed better people making it
Cable back breaking that innocent avatar guy and the movie being fine with it reminds me of how in WW84 Diana just r_pes some random mall patron for a week and it's like ....
During my Logan Lerman phase, as a 12 year old, I got my mom to rent this movie for us and we watched not even two minutes of it before we both cut it off. So thank you for watching it for me, because I had no desire to actually watch it because it scarred me, but not knowing what happens has also haunted me.
At least there were no montages in this one.
I think you didn't watch carefully enough. They explain the npc thing. If you make it as npc through one of the matches u get out or something like that
I watched this when I was watching Dexter because I love Michael C Hall and the only bit I fondly remember is his funky lil dance and terry crews singing. Because huh? Wha- why is this.. on my screen..? Who blessed me with this?
Holy shit i thought this was a fever dream. GUESS NOT THEN
I remember watching this movie when I was like 10, and as the 10 year old gamer I was, I enjoyed it. Mainly because I didn't know wtf was going on.
I remember I was so hyped for this movie and I watched and I thought it was amazing. I tried rewatching it a couple weeks ago- couldn't even get past the first like 20 minutes
The irony of Dexter getting the knife
So... It's unbelievable to think that, at one point, someone actually read the script of this movie and said "Well, that'll do !" °w°
Bionic pig content makes me happy and distracts me from my anxiety and stuff
Say what you want about it being an edgy movie but you gotta give credit that there's a lot of great scenes.
Also Society is a parody of Second Life, not of gaming or gamers in general. Second Life is literally as depraved and degenerate as Society in Gamer.
I really guess it was an okay Comment on society Movie back in the days. But watching it now... it didn't aged well. That's why it's so Perfect 😁
Nah this movie is shit
@@nman551 not really. Def a decent action movie.
@@LazyKingAus it can't be called an action movie of you can't see/comprehend the "action" because they filmed it like Micheal J Fox was the camera man after they gave him a 5 hour energy, and an 8 ball of blow.
@@sporemaster97 Idk what you mean by that but the movie is an action movie. imdb says so.
It’s like they took a decent concept for a sci-fi movie, but had no idea what they were doing so they just winged it during production
That ain't no grenade launcher, that's a hell of a shotgun!
I remember wanting to see this bc the actor from Dexter was in it. I remembered absolutely nothing about the movie at this point. Watched it once and banished it from my memory lol my brain did me a solid.
Cable is literally just Greg Renko's "Laginator" character
@Nikko Russell yes
I mean I'd be intimidated if a man emptied a drum-fed automatic shotgun with one hand.
This director duo can't direct anything without using that obnoxious crank style of theirs, plus the only reason I remember this movie was the obnoxious use of Manson's Sweet Dreams even though I like Manson.
Oh my God. I totally forgot how they used music!! 😂
This Movie has it all!
Yikes
I was playing animal crossing while watching this and my pig resident walked up to me when I heard bionic pig say “or are you a casual animal crossing player
Hahah, now I want to play Terraria again.
The npcs are actually explained its during the beginig where they give the whole info dump. The npcs in the slayers game are death row inmates who instead of being controled by a player they are controled by ai and because they arent actively fighting they only have to survive one round instead of 30 but the thing is slayers get points for killing them and they often get killed in the crossfire so next to none actually survive a single round.
I remember seeing ads for this movie all the time. Not one person ever told me this how gamers act
No matter how shitty the movie was, it was very fun to see you go through it!
dude I was just looking at ur tweet about this movie lol
How in the hell have you not done spy kids movies
also, every time you talk about Bezos i sing the ''Jeffrey Bezos'' song by Bo Burnham lol
this is the first video i''ve watched from you and you've made me realise I've watched this movie before like fucking years ago... I'm pretty sure this is a repressed memory.
If rich people could force prisoners into a “Battle Royal” type situation they would, don’t lie, the consequences just stop them.
Also it would be this convoluted.
With the amount of rich and powerful people (including many politicians) who SHOULD be in prison, for many of the same things the prisoners are there for, yeah I don’t think this scenario is much of a stretch.
Just pointing and laughing at the tax evaders and sex traffickers fighting for their lives, because they just weren’t rich enough to get away with it. What noobs!
I remembered seeing this as a kid and thinking “is this what adult gamers are like?”
Same. Seen this when I was a kid as well.
"Hello... Dexter Morgan." - Trinity, circa 2010
I’m literally jealous of your hair dude. It looks so soft. It’s not fair 😭
I simultaneously love and hate all of the pigverse characters’ voices.
i haven’t seen your videos in months and your hair looks so good !!!
Did any notice during the doctor section he used terraria music.
MICHAEL C HALL
JOHN LEGUIZAMO
GERARD BUTLER
TERRY CREWS
They spent the whole budget on CG and actors, and they forgot they also needed writers.
You want a great movie that really gets what it's like to be an epic gamer? Hardcore Henry. That movie still puts a smile on my face. I watched it pretty late in life, and it was like rediscovering fps games for the first time.
16:25 the NPC are the other convicts that get a set program and only have to survive the one round but have absolutely no control during their only 1 time but if they live they get to be free
The Overwatch part cut a little too deep
"She carries your ass in APEX LEGENDS ALL THE TIME" Yep can relate...
Bruh Sword Art Online is more respectful to gaming than this
😂
Hell yeah!
The only reason he was able to kill Terry is because Castle was controlling him. He even says "you should have let him fight".
I wasn't quite paying attentions and had an absolute heart attack when I heard 0:19 (my nickname is Gabi.)
I actually used to watch movie a ton when I was a little kid I loved it for some odd reason now its like one of those odd movies ill rewatch every couple of years as some odd guilty pleasure cuz of how insane it is.
this movie is totally a guilty pleasure of mine, as a gamer, whose female, and doesn't exist, because we aren't real, you can't see me
the overwatch foreshadowing is crazy.
I'm loving the amount of discord memes in this video 😂
I can't believe a started remembering having watched this movie while I was looking at the video. Thanks pig
I was 14 when this movie came out, and I thought it was awesome... Damn, I was such a dumb kid...
I suddenly found your videos. And you’re like pulling out films I had suppressed in the back of my mind.
"Society" was old school PSHome. Change my mind.
R.I.P pshome, you were the best society
That was all that I could think of when he was describing Society. Brings back memories.
Apparently, the two writers and directors were spending every night during production getting hammered all the live long night and then going directly to the studio from the bar to film the movie during the day. That explains quite a lot.
And I’m not trying to shame them for that level of alcoholism or anything, but I’m sure as heck gonna shame them for making a bad movie because of it.
Danny G is the best thing in this world
This movie would be god-tier if in the end after the dude said "well-played" the world "collapsed" and it was revealed it was a new-tech VR game. To make the ending even better, make the "True gamer" who played all that some incredibly famous actor like Patrick Stewart or Brian Blessed and end the movie on a line like "frankly, I don't see the appeal, the plot is a mess!"
Instant cult following.
The US government would most definitely “update yo life” and “barrow “ that Nona tech shit
Totally
Its basically the game second life
Where yes they do just that only with avatars rather then people
Vin Diesel has over 1,000 hours recorded in Ark, making his epic gamer hobby almost as important as family.
Last time I looked this movie up I could only find one review and the rest were movie clips