Beverly D'Angelo, David Hanson, Joe Nieves

"Gamers" is a comedy about the lives of four hapless friends (and one obsessive interloper) and how they evolve over a 23-year span. It centers on a single day when they are about to break a world rec...( read more  read more... )ord for hours spent role-playing a game called DND, or Demons, Nymphs, and Dragons.

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Directed by: Christopher Folino

Release Date: January 1, 2006

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DVD Release Date: May 6, 2008

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  • August 16, 2008
    A genuinely funny mockumentary about DnD style RPG players. Well filmed and well acted with a very decent script, even if this were a studio project. The onyl reason I don't rate it higher is because I forgot I watched this and didn't review it the day or day after I saw it. I ha...( read more)d to look through my watching history to be reminded that I had seen this. Considering the longest I go from watching to commenting is overnight, that's a pretty big forget.
    RPGers will probably really like this and think it's a great mock for their community. everyone else will be thoroughly entertained and reminded of the RPGers in their lives, though the characters do have a few stereotypes stamped to them.
  • June 29, 2008
    Funny, hilarious, and down right wrong at times. Great fun.
  • May 19, 2008
    Stupid annoying characters. The movie is more about the loser players' love lives than the game itself. It takes most of the movie to get to the actual game session, which doesn't play out interestingly enough. I would've liked to see more role-playing action than the sexual and ...( read more)lack-of-career frustrations of the guys involved. I didn't like any of the characters, they were pathetic in an unfunny way. Perhaps some scenes at conventions, game stores and them interacting with other players? How about some fantasy scenes of their characters in the adventure? I liked how the scriptwriters fittingly changed the "DND" name to avoid any copyright issues. There were some nice cameo appearances by 80's actors. Jokes were mostly misses, but I laughed at the nerotic player's obsession with his "Farrah" character, and the resulting chaos when she was killed off in many gruesome ways so she couldn't be resurrected. I couldn't believe they didn't see the game-master's white grand wizard costume resembled a KKK uniform The movie poster made it look like the ultimate geek role-playing comedy, but it fell quite short of that. I doubt I'll rewatch.
  • May 5, 2009
    I watched this as something I just found on the shelf at Hastings. Funny, but really sad, like most geeks/gamers, including myself.
  • November 15, 2008
    What a terrible movie!! Geeks of the world, don't get sucked into this suck-fest by the name.
  • September 19, 2008
    It isn't that funny. Sometimes the movie has a joke going but stops being funny at half. Good to see once in your life...if you have nothing else to do and they're giving it on cable.
  • August 6, 2008
    I've never played D&D (the fake one or the real one), but I did get a good laugh out of this movie.

    Not the best ever, but entertaining just the same. Some of the scenes made me laugh like crazy, and some not so much.

    Definitely worth seeing if you are a gamer of any kind. (no,...( read more) I will never play D&D)
  • May 18, 2008
    This was freakin' hilarious.
  • May 15, 2008
    It has it's moments but overall...meh.
  • May 9, 2008
    On point and hilarious! On the title screen one of the "messages" Reese leaves mentions how pissed off Christopher Guest would be about this mockumentary, but I thought it was fantastic not to mention one of the funniest films I've seen recently. There's a lot of silliness but fa...( read more)ns of RPGs, MMORPGs, and even TCGs should find some humor and truth in this.

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