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Are you an RPGer? Then this movie isn't for you.

Are you a fan of comedy? Then this movie is definitely not for you.

I rented this with low expectations to begin with, but since I was a roleplayer I figured there would be some decent "inside jokes" about gaming and it might be at least enjoyable.

WRONG!

The very little it does have on actual gaming is just juvenile and plain stupid. I've heard it compared to Napoleon Dynamite...not even close. I found absolutely nothing enjoyable in this and would sue the makers for the time back if I could. It really is that awful. I think I softly chuckled at maybe two or three little bits, but those are quickly forgotten under the deluge of lame attempts at humor everywhere else in the film.

Don't waste your money, don't waste your time. Please....

This movie is not only not funny, it's also mean. It doesn't parody the genre or the gaming hobby, it just makes fun of it. If you are a gamer, this movie will probably offend you. If you're not a gamer, you won't be offended, but neither will you be amused.

It's supposed to be about a group of roleplayers setting a new record for hours spent on a single campaign, but it's actually a painful pseudo-documentary about crude, pathetic losers who don't even like each other. It panders to the worst stereotypes about gamers, because roleplaying is an easy target to pick on. There's really very little about actual gaming. The movie mostly focuses on bad attempts at low-level humor.

If the phrase "splattered with horse semen" revolts you, run.

Avoid. Avoid. Avoid.

Worst.
Movie.
Ever.

Gamers / 012233163124

My husband and I are big fans of tabletop RPG movies, and we absolutely loved Dead Gentlemen Production's "The Gamers: Dorkness Rising". We'd heard that "Dorkness Rising" was a quasi-sequel to another movie by the same company called "Gamers", and we picked this up, expecting that this was the same movie.

Well, firstly, it's not. "The Gamers" by Dead Gentlemen Productions is here: The Gamers. So if you've been redirected here looking for the prequel to "Dorkness Rising", run away as fast as you can.

This movie is utterly horrible and without any amusing lines whatsoever. The "plot" is that the same group has been playing the tabletop RPG "DND" (Dungeons, Nymphs, and Dragons) for a record-breaking number of hours, and a TV crew has been dispatched to interview the players before their big record breaking night. The entire movie consists of watching the "interviewees" talk about their lives (which are played up to be as pathetic as possible) - there is almost ZERO gaming shown on camera. Literally, I think maybe, MAYBE, there's a combined 2 minutes of gaming in this movie, and that's largely flashbacks.

Here are the things that are "funny" about this movie:

- One of the players has a day job extracting semen from horses. Cue visual gag.

- One of the players has a day job recording custom songs for kids, including a song for a kid named "Dick".

- One of the players took his lactating cousin to the prom. Cue visual gag.

- One of the players hires a black woman to make him a "Gandalf the White" costume and she somehow fails to realize that her "original design" looks EXACTLY like a Klan robe. A black dwarf (the real kind of dwarf, not the fantasy kind) then proceeds to beat up the FRIEND of the guy-wearing-the-Klan-robe, so that the "role playing" Klan guy can call him a "dirty dark dwarf".

- One of the players has swinger parents. Cue visual gag.

- Clown porn. I wish I was making this up.

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - funny about this movie. It's not original; it's just a bunch of silly gross-out gags thrown at the screen over and over in the hopes that something will stick. The "tabletop RPG" theme is completely shoe-horned in - the exact same movie could have been made about, say, people who obsess about Star Trek conventions or something equally "nerdy" (in the public eye), and only a couple of lines would have had to change to accommodate the new theme. I'm terribly sorry that I rented this thinking that it was the DGP movie by the same name, and I would like someone to pass the brain bleach, thank you.

~ Ana Mardoll

0 of 5 stars. -1 star, if possible.

This is an RPG "comedy" written by someone who never played an RPG, and who simply is not funny. The movie has NO understanding of RPGs, gamer culture, nor humor. It is perhaps the worst film I have ever watched, and certainly the dumbest, stupidest, most idiotic film I've ever watched. This film seriously gave me an upset stomach.

The premise of this film is a mocumentary of Gamer culture, but the film displays no knowledge of RPGs or Gamers. The only reference that the clueless writer is aware of is that sometimes RPG characters die, and all the RPG jokes in the film are based on this concept. The rest of the film is based on the gamers who are all shallow, undeveloped pseudo-cliches who yell at each other, and are cruel to each other in between meaningless, poorly developed scenes which often don't support any plot.

Besides the complete lack of any understanding of RPGs or Gamers, the humor in this film is horrible. It is the most obnoxious, super-low-brow, immature, juvenile, insultingly dumb humor I've ever seen in a film. This film displays the worst comedic timing I have ever seen, and the director stretches out bad jokes over minutes. I do recall three jokes which made me smile, and one of the gamers Swinger parents made me laugh, but the bulk of this film is VERY bad jokes (dull, immature, and unsophisticated), which are forced on the observer for near unbearable amounts of time.

To summarize the humor, it seems like the inane prattle between two 12 year olds with obvious problems with their attention spans, intelligence, and basic awareness. Besides the complete lack of anything clever about RPGs or Gamer culture, this film fails to deliver in any way imaginable. It is poorly written, poorly directed, poorly edited, poorly acted, and is simply NOT funny.

On a positive note, there is a good part to this DVD. The DVD has extra features which include the trailer to the film. The trailer is well done, as whoever edited it has an understanding of comedic timing and humor. Stick with only the trailer and you may laugh and have good feelings about the film. If you want that laughter removed, and those good feelings to go away, just watch the entire movie.

This movie is unforgivably horrible. It's just terrible.

If you want a good RPG movie, check out "THE Gamers" or even "Fear of Girls". They both have clever and very funny RPG references, as well as the ability to make you laugh out loud.

To say I hated this movie is too weak a description. It is offensive, gross, stupid, and unfunny. There are many good gamer movies out there and it gets confusing because they all have similar titles. Unfortunatley this is not one of them. If you have any respect for gaming, or any respect for yourself for that matter, don't waste your time with this one. There are absolutely no redeeming qualities about this story. One out of five stars is too generous a rating.

There are some great pieces of gamer culture out there. This is not one of them. The budget seems to be pretty good, which is a shame, because the movie turns out to be so awful. It's not really even ABOUT the game, but rather about the real lives of the gamers ... who are all caricatures and stereotypes. Compared with "The Gamers", which you can find in about five parts on YouTube, this is pretty abysmal. It really is sad, because "The Gamers" obviously had a budget of about $20, and manages to poke fun at "that guy" in the gaming hobby while still treating the hobby as a whole with affection. When my buddy and I realized that the movie was halfway over and we had still only seen bits and pieces of the actual game (and had only given up some token "pity-laughs"), we put in a different movie. I really wish I could say that I liked this film more than I did, because I love RPGs, and the guys who made this probably do too.

Let me save you the time you may otherwise have wasted on this movie. Here are all of the jokes in the entire film:

1. Gamer 1 gets his *** kicked by a midget
2. Gamer 2's parents are swingers
3. Gamer 3 lives (mentally) in the fantasy world 24x7x365 and (by consequence) almost loses his job
4. Gamer 4 is a closetted homosexual
5. All gamers live with their parents and have crappy jobs

The movie makes you wonder if Monterey Video hired two 12 year olds and wrote into the script everything they said "would be, like, TOTALLY hilarious".

The entire movie can be summed up by "A bunch of bad stuff happens to some extremely pathetic losers." The comedy concept that fueled genuine laughs in Dumb and Dumber falls totally flat in Gamers. All of the characters are 100% predictable stereotypes, making the movie completely uninteresting.

If you want a genuinely funny look at gamers that portrays the stereotypes through interesting characters I recommend The Gamers: Dorkness Rising (2008 -- Dead Gentlemen Productions). The inside jokes won't make sense to non-gamers, but gamers will enjoy it and get some genuine laughs.

I hope this helps.
-sean

I only ordered this movie because a friend suggested it to me. It was really slow and I lost the movie before i could finish it. :( if you are really into RPG's and have dry humor this may be the film for you, it just wasn't my cup of tea.

I watched "Gamers" because I'm a gamer and I love making fun of myself and my hobbies. I also was duped by the number of well known actors such as Beverly D'Angelo, Kelly LeBrock, William Katt, etc. I'm not sure if the writers' lives were destroyed by a role-playing game or they simply couldn't think of anything more original than the cliché's, fowl language, and hate found in this script. Yes, we all know that every gamer is a virgin, has a dead end job and lives in their mother's basement.

If you're looking for light hearted fun, look elsewhere. I can recommend "Dorkness Rising".