Lucybespro
It is a performances centric movie
Afouotos
Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
Calum Hutton
It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...
Mandeep Tyson
The acting in this movie is really good.
siderite
As others remarked, this is not really a movie, more like a long sketch. However there is a lot of humor in it and the people doing the film obviously had a lot of fun making it. It does look like and probably is a student film made for some art project or another, but I liked it.The film, made by The Dead Gentlemen Production (there is a hint there, LOL), is about a fantasy role playing game. Five (and a bit) students are playing it based on a set of rules, each impersonating a character of their choice, the game progression being controlled by a game master. While they are playing, there are also scenes that enact their imagined journey. And there is a twist ending.I can remember the days when I was like them, playing games that are inconceivably time wasting now to even comprehend, but that back then were my life! Could I believe back then that anyone would rather go out with a beautiful intelligent young woman than hang out with his best friends playing adventure games? No! So I was writing a review, right?Bottom line: it needs a certain audience, that is for sure, but a film made with so much gusto should be difficult to not enjoy, even if you don't completely understand the characters. I loved it!
Geschichtenerzaehler
"The Gamers", a story about a hilarious fantasy role playing session, is the best no budget movie I've ever seen.I assume, it's the best thing you can do with $0.00, a cheap camera and a bunch of really motivated friends. Don't expect good acting, good costumes or anything like a complex script. So why do I give this movie 8 out of 10 points? Because it's funny. Really, really funny. You probably have to be gamer yourself, to get most of the jokes, but when you do, they'll make you laugh. Hard! Even years later you'll smile, whenever anybody mentions them.I highly recommend this movie to every gamer out there!
hellraiser7
Fantasy is always a fun genre because you can do anything with it and just about anything can happen. This is another film from the that group I love "Dead Gentlemen" and they did it again.Not much I can say it's parody on the RPG counter culture but it does it cleverly mainly on it's format which is kinda similar to the fantasy films "The Neverending Story" and "The Princess Bride"; it makes perfect sense because that's exactly what playing the game is like, roll the dice, make whatever moves your character can make, all to imagine the outcome of your actions.The action is good, the choreography actually does look up to par. The music is also good though it's not as memorable, but their still good tracks. The make up work on monsters is good. The locations they used were solid, they worked well with whatever they could get. The special effects are decent, not too shabby but what can you expect from a low budget amateur film. But the really magic is once again in it's script, the dialog is just very good it's above average writing. I really like what the characters say they all have some good memorable lines. It's once again an example of verbal humor going together well with visual humor, and I'm a fan of verbal humor.The only problem with this film is just simply that it was too short, may'be it was because of budget or this was how it was meant to be but still I really felt like the film could of had some more minutes in it, that campaign the characters were on could of been a bit longer.But oh well, overall "The Gamers" is a solid fantasy film, so if anyone is a fan of RPG board games or video games, or even a fan of the fantasy genre then "The Gamers" is a game you can't lose.Rating: 3 stars
stan-71
This movie is short and very low budget. But when I watched it for the first time, I spent almost the entire 48 minutes laughing so hard the tears were streaming down my face. I didn't laugh *quite* that hard the second time I saw it. Even today, months after the last time I saw it, thinking about a scene in the movie makes me laugh. Gamers are definitely the target audience, though you don't necessarily have to be a gamer to get it - my wife has played a grand total of one RPG session in her life, and she loved the movie too.All in all, I would recommend this movie to anyone who has played an RPG at some point in their life, or has a sense of humor.
