tylercudddletail I always wanted to make movies someday and decided to watch Microbudget films for inspiration. So I decided to buy "The Gamers" and watch it. It's turns out to be a pretty good film.The film is a shot on video comedy about a group of college students who play a Tabletop RPG(Like Dungeons and Dragons) on the night of finals. In the film, Our heroes must defeat the evil one known the shadow while stealing pants, using a Ballistic Weapon, and finally using the Sword of Ogre Decapitation. All while getting some interruptions by a foul mouth girl trying to study.It's a great No Budget Comedy Fantasy Video that I highly recommend. It's possibly better than the official D&D film at a fraction of the cost it took to make.

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

jfgibson73 The Gamers shows five guys involved in a role playing game in their dorm on a Friday night. As they play the game, scenes from the story are acted out, inter-cut with the discussion in the dorm. It is an incredibly simple adventure, and the five are interrupted several times by an angry resident who is trying to study.I was surprised to see so many positive reviews by people who seem to know about gaming. Do gamers actually like this movie? Do they find it authentic? All I can say is, if this is what gaming is usually like, I don't feel like I'm missing out. I have to believe that people are coming up with more complex stuff than what these guys pretend to play.Spoilers: In their adventure, they start out in a tavern. They kill an angry guy they had met on a previous adventure, then get a message from a princess who wants to be rescued. They get into a fight in a forest with some bandits, then enter a dungeon and kill the evil Shadow. The way the movie ends is with the characters from the scenes depicted the adventure bust into the dorm room and kill the kids playing the game, who are their real-life counterparts. It's short and cheap, and apparently a lot of people who have played D&D think it's funny. I thought it seemed kind of stereotypical in how it portrayed the guys playing the game, but maybe this is how most games really sound.

chmiller948 Make no mistake about it; The Gamers is not a perfect movie. The script is wrought with hackneyed dialogue, predictable situations, and fan-boy in-jokes that serve to alienate most while entertaining few. But beneath all that is something you can't find in any Jerry Bruckheimer blockbuster or Michael Bay monstrosity; genuine enthusiasm of storytelling. Every person involved in every element of this film clearly loved what they were doing. The sheer joy for the material leaps out of the screen and into the faces of the audience. You can't help but smile the whole way through this energetic and ebullient film. And for those of us to whom the film is directed, the current and former members of the cult of nerd, this film is a real treat.The film is funny, not in the shocking way of a teenage sex comedy or the schmaltzy way of a romantic "comedy," but in the same way that real life is funny. You laugh at this movie for the same reasons you laugh at your friend's bad jokes; the humor touches a nerve at the collective subconscious of all geeks.If you are now or have ever been a nerd, geek, dork, or dweeb, do yourself a favor and find this movie. And if you aren't, see it anyway. You may catch yourself laughing along with the rest of us.