Proves that you don't need much money to make an absolutely fascinating reality movie, provided you are willing to exploit weirdos waiting for their moment in the limelight.
Comment
03/31/07
Games People Play: New York (2004)
36 %
Reviews Counted: 42 Fresh: 15 Rotten:27 Average Rating: 4.9/10
Genre: Education/General Interest
Reviews
It's not all cheap laughs, however. There's cheap sentiment, as well.
08/08/04
The only way anyone in the audience will win is if they walk out on the film, seek out management, and ask for their money back.
05/24/04
Degrades both those who chose to appear in it and those of us unfortunate enough to watch it.
05/21/04
The whole experience feels cheap and sleazy, like walking alone down a long damp alley at 3 in the morning.
05/14/04
Entertaining in a naked real world, train-wreck kind of way... the pranks are often funny, never actually cruel, but at the same time, there's something sad about these games.
05/14/04
This is the kind of faux-dignified freak show that was once the stuff of parody and satire. Now it pats itself on the back for being 'risqué' and treats itself seriously.
05/13/04
Pornography has more integrity than James Ronald Whitney's total tease of a movie.
05/13/04
A clever, amusing, roundly enjoyable social experiment wrapped in colorful docu-tainment swaddling clothes.
05/03/04
A look at the fame machine, done with tongue in cheek, eyes open in wonderment and a brazen sense of playfulness that's hard to resist.
04/23/04
Just interesting enough to relieve the embarrassment you deserve for enjoying it.
04/23/04
If reality is made up of truth without deceit, there’s nothing real about Games, unless you count really bad and really awful.
04/23/04
A pretty scathing satire of reality TV, including itself, which makes it both what it is, and a critique of what it is.
04/16/04
It is either a brilliant example of an experiment in psychological manipulation or a reprehensible exploitation of the ambitions and vulnerabilities of actors and others who did the director no harm.
04/16/04
Top Critic
This sly endeavor is not nearly as brave or uninhibited as it claims; it is a movie that scrambles around with its ideas and never really decides where it wants to take them.
04/09/04
Rent a porno instead; it'll be less exploitative. God help us, two more of these things are planned.
04/02/04
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