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The Best Movie Ever: Sci-Fi Movies of the 21st Century

What’s the best sci-fi movie of the last 15 years? CraveOnline’s critics present their picks.




William Bibbiani’s Pick: Gamer (2009)

There are a lot of better movies than Gamer made in the last 15 years, and there are even better movies within the science fiction genre (see: Primer, Timecrimes and Source Code). But Gamer, more so than I would argue any other 21st century sci-fi movie, could only exist today. The technology may not have existed to make something like Inception or District 9 before, but the ideas were already out there.



Gamer, directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (insufferably crediting themselves as Neveldine/Taylor), expands on ideas that are so new that they still seem like science fiction, even when they already exist. Gaming is already a rapidly growing industry and medium, with sociological impacts that are still difficult to quantify. Is it changing the way we view our lives, and each other? What if the characters inside our games are real people, choosing or even being forced to submit to our control? Would we play games differently if someone actually died every time we fired our weapons, or would we abandon empathy altogether in favor of godlike control over a virtual reality that is rapidly becoming indistinguishable from our own?



In Gamer, Gerard Butler plays Kable, a convicted felon controlled by a teenaged gamer in a first person shooter. Kable’s wife, Angie (Amber Valetta), makes a living as – essentially – a Sim, living out a gamer’s fantasies by proxy, even when the things she’s forced to do shock or horrify her. The science responsible for this particular fiction was invented by Ken Castle, an entrepreneur played with rambunctious glee by Michael C. Hall, and he has plans to use gamification to control the masses, just like every corporation is (to an admittedly different extent) already doing.



And these ideas that challenge the way we look at how new technologies are currently manipulating our daily lives are presented with wit, threat and exciting action sequences. Like many of the best sci-fi movies, they expand our minds while appealing to our guts. Gamer entertains in much the same way that RoboCop or Total Recall do: with crowd-pleasing violence and wicked satire, making the genuine and disturbing stories of the protagonists more palatable. Gamer broadly entertains as a way to ease us into thinking clearly about complex issues; issues that didn’t even exist 20, 15 or even 10 years prior to its release. It’s the best sci-fi movie of the 21st century because, at least in some respects, it is the 21st century.
www.craveonline.com/film/articles/843853-best-movie-ever-sci-fi-movies-21st-century

I hate video games and this kind of films, but Gerry...he can add so much emotions and feelings even in stuff like that. And the way he looks... OMG

His eyes...

Gamer is on the Syfy channel today at 4pm est. and tomorrow too. I love the buff Gerry in that movie.

“Gamer” is still finding a audience- it is now on Peacock Streaming channel., new article today - 

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