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Gamer
2009 · Film · 95 min
Directed by Brian Taylor, Mark Neveldine
Mind-control technology has taken society by a storm, a multiplayer on-line game called "Slayers" allows players to control human prisoners in mass-scale. Simon controls Kable, the online champion of the game. Kable's ultimate challenge becomes regaining his identity and independence by defeating the game's mastermind.
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I'll add some films that I enjoyed. Some might be flawed, some constrained by their budget etc, but overall I enjoyed watching them. Ordered alphabetical (I hope).
The more mainstream ones:
- Brainstorm (1983)
- Gamer (2009)
- Midnight Special (2016)
- Pandorum (2009)
- Outland (1981)
- Possessor (2020)
The more low budget/indie ones:
- Alien Arrival (2016)
- Chariot (2022)
- The Endless (2018)
- Galaxy of Terror (1981)
- Honeymoon (2014)
- The man with the magic box (2017)
- The Objective (2008)
- Senn (2013)
- The Signal (2014)
- Time Trap (2017)
- Welcome the Stranger (2018)
Here's a list I stole from Quora: https://www.quora.com/What-films-have-the-lowest-average-shot-length-ASL
ASL 1.55 - Doomsday (2008) : 4052 shots over 105 minutes
ASL 1.72 - Transporter 3 (2008) : 3360 shots over 96 minutes
ASL 1.73 - Domino (2005) : 4046 shots over 116 minutes
ASL 1.83 - Quantum of Solace (2008) : 3198 shots over 98 minutes
ASL 1.84 - Crank: High Voltage (2009) : 2718 shots over 84 minutes
ASL 1.92 - Transporter 2 (2005) : 2524 shots over 81 minutes
ASL 2.01 - Band of Ninja (1967) : 3424 shots over 114 minutes
ASL 2.01 - Moulin Rouge! (2001) : 3594 shots over 120 minutes
ASL 2.03 - Gamer (2009) : 2502 shots over 84 minutes
ASL 2.03 - The 6th Day (2000) : 3418 shots over 116 minutes
ASL 2.08 - Hot Fuzz (2007) : 3304 shots over 115 minutes
ASL 2.10 - Dark City (1998) : 2982 shots over 104 minutes
ASL 2.15 - Armageddon (1998) : 4025 shots over 145 minutes
ASL 2.17 - The Transporter (2002) : 2420 shots over 87 minutes
ASL 2.17 - The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) : 2910 shots over 105 minutes
Before I read the article I assumed this was the plot of the movie "Gamer" except for real. In that movie (ruined mostly by a horrible ending), players control their in game avatar but those in game avatars are real people.
You may be thinking of Gamer, but Surrogates also matches up with this. Both pretty interesting movies.
There was a movie called Gamer (2009) with a similar concept: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034032/ (trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2g94xQmtHw )
When you hear it that way, it sounds like the spawn of the VR world called Society seen in the movie Gamer.
There was an action/sci-fi movie called Gamer a few years ago that briefly explored this kind of technology. I was still fascinated by what the script writers came up with - people whose job was to be real-world second life characters, prison inmates who were real-world bodies in a COD modern warfare style game called Slayers, and of course people committing crimes.
Someone in a Reddit comment coined the term 'glasshole', likely in reference to the type who walk around with the bluetooth piece talking loudly about 'important' things.
For those who have seen the film Children of Men, there's a scene in there of a young man in a nice apartment who is playing video games on a strange, futuristic headset which, if I remember correctly, somewhat resembled Glass. He looked like he had psychological problems.
We're getting closer and closer to Surrogates/Gamer/Sleep Dealer/etc, something I'm not excited about at all.
6) See movie Gamer.
The movie GAMER with Gerard Butler also has this theme. Its pretty horrible though :)
Gamer, while an uninspired movie, was shot fully digital on RED and had a large number of green-screen shots. Even using beta firmware the results are impressive.
The compositing software you can get today does an amazing job of adding and subtracting elements. Maybe you mean film is cheaper because it doesn't mess with your existing work-flow and you don't have to re-tune your tools.