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Seen on: 01/01/2010

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The Gamers: Dorkness Rising (2008)

Directed by Matt Vancil

Comedy

Most recently watched by noahphex, jenerator

Overview

All Lodge wants is for his gaming group to finish their adventure. Unfortunately, they’re more interested in seducing barmaids, mooning their enemies, and setting random villagers on fire. Desperate to rein in his players, Lodge injects two newbies into the party: a non-player character controlled by Lodge, who the power gamers immediately distrust, and the rarest gamer of all—a girl.

Length 105 minutes

Actors

Geoff Gibbs | Chris Duppenthaler | Nathan Rice | Emily Olson | Don Early | Carol Roscoe | Brian Lewis | Scott C. Brown | Christian Doyle | Jennifer Page | Ed Gibbs | Sean K. Reynolds | Julia Vancil | Steve Wolbrecht | John Frank Rosenblum

Viewing Notes

The very definition of a low budget film. What elevates The Gamers is that all the terminology and characters in the film aren’t dumbed down, played for truth and its references are true to Dungeons and Dragons. I ended up having a really good time watching this despite the actors not being pros and the FX being terrible.

It’s basically a bunch of D&D fans playing a weekly game with a DM who is working on his own module. One of the guys brings in his girlfriend who hasn’t played before and they end up working together to not only conquer the game but to learn something about themselves. Sounds corny? It is! But watching these people run around in LARP costumes and play it with the giddy excitement that real role players do, it makes it a blast.

A good film for me, though I wouldn’t watch it again.

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