Home>Movies>Gerard Butler Is Player 1 Gerard Butler Is Player 1 By Rob Bricken May 12, 2009 Movies 0 Comment This is the trailer for Gamer, a movie where Gerard Butler plays a prisoner who fights for his freedom in a game to the death, the “twist” being that he’s controlled by some snot-nosed kid — like in a videogame. As FilmDrunk so eloquently puts it, “Gee, I wonder if he’s a former green beret/CIA Agent/Delta Force soldier who was wrongly imprisoned, and who’ll have to take down the game’s mastermind if he ever wants to see his supermodel wife/supermodel girlfriend/supermodel daughter again.” You just might possibly be right, sir! Still, the movie looks delightfully horrible, and the fact that it stars Ludicris and Milo “Peter Petrelli” Ventimiglia as a guy named Rick Rape is like the awful cherry on top. I understand this makes me part of the problem. Tweet Pin It Related Posts Jared Leto Got His Joker Haircut Today [Pic] David Ayer I've amped up the contrast a bit so you can by Luke Y. Thompson The Hell? Edgar Wright out as Ant-Man Director? The fan-favorite director, the guy who shot a whole test reel by Luke Y. Thompson About The Author Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.