I've promised the last couple times that the First Lady and I would disagree from time to time, yet so far we've seen eye to eye on most things. Finally we have a pretty big break in view points as we dig into Stay Alive, a modern day slasher on the surface that turns out to be not so modern when you get down to the nitty gritty.
She says:
Being a gamer chick, I was looking forward to seeing Stay Alive. Now, I have seen a number of video game based movies, so I wasn't holding any high expectations for it. This movie is about a video game in which if you die in it, you will die the same way in real life. (All I could think was if I get ganked by a gnome rogue or a swarm of murlocks in the near future, I am gonna be pissed!)
We start out our story with a scruffy looking gamer guy (Milo Ventimiglia) who is supposedly beta testing this new game called Stay Alive. Unfortunately he dies in the game and is relatively spooked by it. He checks in on his roommate and his girlfriend who had already died in game as well and are busy "porking" – literally, as the guy had some sort of pig mask on. Don't ask me, I didn't direct or costume this movie. We see Ventimiglia's character bite it as he did in the game, and we can only surmise that the couple met a similar outcome.
Now we meet our main character, an office worker named Hutch (Jon Foster), and his boss (Adam Goldberg) who is needing help with a game he is playing. Hutch hears about his buddy's demise and goes off to attend the funeral where runs into his buddy's roommate's girlfriend's friend. (Yeah, can we get more complicated?) After the funeral, the deceased little sister hands some of the friend's personal belonging over, including all the video games he had. So Hutch, the new girl, and Hutch's friends all decide to play the game together. Long story short, they start to die like they did in game, which is when they realize there is more behind it. Let's find the Mystery Machine and solve this mystery, gang!
While I enjoyed the film, some aspects of it are a bit out there, even for me. For example, one of the characters, played by Frankie Muniz, plays the game while a couple of the others are searching the house that the game is based on. Some how, his character happens to drop a crowbar that was needed or happens to have a key to unlock a door. These aren't things that are likely to happen in "real life."
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