Has anyone else seen this? It’s a fictional “reality TV” show (spoof or satire doesn’t quite seem to describe it accurately) in which Contenders are chosen at random and sent to a small town where they have to kill each other. The last one alive is the defending champ who moves on to the next “Series”
It’s done in the manner of Cops, America’s Most Wanted, and Survivor all mixed together in a rather twised blend. Each Contender has a little vignette of them being chosen by masked special operations people pounding on their door to take them to compete. There’s voice overs of each character talking about how they want to win, how they have the drive to compete, etc.
What’s really bizarre is the way you start out watching it along the lines of " hey! this is kind of an interesting look at reality shows, the public’s attitude towards violence in entertainment, blah blah blah" but you kind of get right into it.
Just wondering if anyone else had seen it. It’s worth a look, IMHO.
I loved Series 7! I like movies that stay with you for a while after you’ve seen it and Series 7 is definetly a movie that gets under your skin. I love black comedies and it would have to be one of the blackest I’ve seen. I wish I was more eloquent and could think of something else to say but I can think of nothing other than it’s a movie I would recommend to anyone with off-color taste in movies.
It was surprisingly funny to me. I liked the narration bit about the “self inflicted knife wound to the back” on the guy who tried to escape.
My friend thought it was really depressing, he thought that it seemed to be the path that society is inevitably going down. I don’t think that that was the point of it at all, I thought it was more about how violence is so embedded in entertainment, and this was taking it to it’s logical satirical extreme. (OK, I guess “satire” does describe it pretty well, despite my previous post. I certainly don’t think that the makers of Series 7 believed that this is in any way what American society will become. I don’t. Any thoughts?
I won’t even touch on my other friend, who a half hour into the show asked " So, is this real?" :rolleyes:
I enjoyed the film. It made me think of a really good version of the Running Man. I here that on DVD the feature are distributed throughout the movie. Is that true? Is it worth renting it again on DVD for the extra stuff?