"Knights of Badassdom: Finally, a Movie About LARP..." Topic

… (And Syphilis).

"It's hard to imagine a movie getting closer to the platonic ideal of nerdity than Knights of Badassdom. It's about live action role-playing (LARPing). It's got Game of Thrones' Peter Dinklage, Community's Dany Pudi, Firefly's Summer Glau, and a succubus. It ruled Hall H at Comic-Con International (which is like being the halftime show at the Super Bowl, if people watching the Super Bowl not only cared, but regularly freaked out about the halftime show). It almost sounds too good to be true; in fact, after waiting more than two years for its release, some of us were starting to think it had all been a dream. But now it's finally here—it's on VOD starting this week, with a theatrical run ongoing.

Well, it's not bad, but it's not what it could have been. Which isn't surprising, given the circuitous path it took to our screens.

Knights tells the epic quest of two LARPing friends—Eric, a guy "about to level-up to grand sorcerer" (Steve Zahn) and Hung (Dinklage)—who seek to cheer up their recently-dumped friend Joe (True Blood‘s Ryan Kwanten) by whisking him off to a LARP in a campsite dressed up as the fields of Evermore. While Joe was once a Dungeons & Dragons legend who gave a competitor's paladin "demonic syphilis," he's since left the fantasy realm and become a mechanic and doom-metal singer; the last thing he wants to do to get over his ex-girlfriend is play with swords in the woods, but after his pals get him drunk and stoned and kidnap him in their van, he has little choice…"
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Sounds funny!.

Amicalement
Armand

A must watch for me!

Got a kick out of it. Bit heavy on the giblets, but light, funny fare. Well worth the rental.

I've been waiting for this to come out for over a year.

Looking forward to seeing this on Netflix.

Watched it last night, it was ok…. Frankly I liked "Role Models" better..