This movie is off-the-charts awesome. Not only is it fascinating and suspenseful, but it also has a really great message at the end when the story finally becomes clear.
One of the CREEPIEST moments in film history, bar none. Does anyone remember when the truly scary movies had the most subtle, underplayed scripts? Not globs of blood and gore and gratuitous violence. Rosemary's Baby, for example. And this scene from The Game!
+ThePeppermint9 While it's common to include actual newspeople and other personalities in high-budget movies, the screenplay is completely original in turning Daniel Schorr, in 1997 being still one of the _deans_ of news and commentary broadcasting, into the paranoid-schizophrenic's worst nightmare realized. The shaping is exquisite. Schorr's initial comment does sound like the sort of ambiguous 'wtf' moment of the hapless psychotic, the seedling where the suspicion starts to grow : I just did something and... was it?.. huh? Did I imagine?... Schorr must have been amused to play the role. Senior broadcasters are aware that there are indeed people who think they are getting a special message.
+Basic_Assumption (There are 'descriptors' but there is no such thing as a 'bombastic' descriptor.) I think you're reading something into the comment that wasn't there. It's obvious that 'Schorr', after the initial references, almost immediately launches into an explanation that what is happening is part of the 'game'. The garden-variety psychotic receives no such charity. Douglas' character is by no means paranoid-schizophrenic; rather, part of 'The Game' apparently included trying to mess with someone's head to the extent that he or she might become so deranged. It's quite obvious that Orton is evaluating the situation on a thoroughly rational basis. He isn't putting on tinfoil, or scouting the neighborhood for CIA thought-projection machines, etc. That some people do think media personalities are indeed trying to mess with a given individual's mind is sadly illustrated by one of the very comments here, a few years earlier, q.v.
This is one of the worst movies ever. If i were him in the end i would go buy a shotgun and come back to the party and kill them all. It will be great to watch this end.
Tim Schweizer David Fincher is finally getting some much deserved credit. So good.. I recently visited the locations from this movie and made a video about it.
God I love this movie. It’s so first class. From the storyline to production. And Michael Douglas is such an amazing actor. Totally appropriate for this role. He is the epitome of an elite San Franciscan conservative - from a time before ultra progressives took over the city.
The last movie I watched with my father before his passing, we had seen it several times together. We both judged the performances outstanding, the directing sublime. I treasure the memories.
Even if you know the ending, you still want to watch it again after a while, unlike some twisted Shyamalan's movies. It's a signature of a great movie.
A small detail that I only recently noticed: the Newsman keeps subtly "morphing" from one position to another throughout this conversation, shifting his position in artificial ways that are clearly computer-generated. It implies that Nicholas isn't even seeing a real human - this isn't some look-alike actor, it's a computer-generated avatar, a precursor to modern deepfakes. Just another subtle, eerie detail that Fincher included, even if most of us barely even notice! :)
This movie is simply amazing...fantastic. The scene where they shout loud in the city stairs at night...and then Nicholas hears again part of their conversation on the public phone...priceless.
Also, I never in so many years would have guessed that as "early" as 1997, someone could actually pull THAT stunt off with the TV and have its news show and be made to look almost as if he is communicating with you like that.
This movie is a testament of all the elites, of how far detached from reality they are, the billionaire executive or any multimillionaire, who sees the rest of humanity as second class citizens or even worse, get humiliated, get the sh** scared out of him and eventually humbled. A lesson learned in how to be a decent human being.
@@speeddrift2014 If you haven't seen the "Devil's Advocate" I'd recommend that came out the same year not sure if it's on Netflix but it's one of the few movies that blew my mind like The Game did
@@brandonstewart8083 keannu reeves.. insaw bits of that movoe. Ok i will see that, brandon. Movies with lots of twists and turns without too much violence ....tnx for the suggestiion. If u see any other good ones, ring me up!
I remember back in college me and one of my teammates would get some herb and blaze and we would watch parts of this movie untill it was finished it became our ritual.
And when that TV man under the "influence" said - "Mr Van Orton had sneezed", did he mean it - as - he sneezed at a public meeting and it is meant to consider embarrassing to sneeze in public or that "sneeze" is also another term for "business failure"?
NGL never seen this film. But because Se7en is my fav film Ive been told to watch this by a lot of people. Same sort of vibe in how it makes you feel apparently.
I have 1 question about the movie: 1. Michael douhlas has a big house with only 1 elderly helper. He should at least have at least 1 butler. Or 1 bodyguard. **** **** **** **** I wonder what other movie is similar to this. 5 stars this movie yep.
знаешь, Николас.... я, когда в детстве, глядя на вот такие вот фильмы, - шедевры Голливуда..... я верил, что мечты могут стать реальностью. я тебя очень уважаю, честно. как бизнесмена и социопата, осознающего свою социопатию. но речь не о том.... ты себе даже представить не можишь на что способна человеческая воля и интеллект. возможна не то что Игра.... Матрица.....
lol exactly. i know youre not. i have witness this my self and i was thinking the same thing when i watched the movie last night. it was a relief to read what you wrote.
