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| Just as the title implies, the following movies are bad. Some so bad they should not be watched unless you have a penchant for masochisim or your tolerance for bad films is high. I grew up watching movies like this so its old hat to my sick mind. Now some of these are actually parody movies (most noteworthy is The Gamers by the Dead Gentlemen productions). These ones I love and only put in the "Bad Gamer Movies" catagory because of the necessity for "camp" that is in the films that makes the pardoying all the more worthwhile. Some of the following don't realize how campy they are though and deserve the title of "bad movie". Whether campy and fun or not, these films are great for sitting around with your gaming friends and having a MST3K style lampooning session. |
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| Might as well start this with the worst of the worst (or best of the worst?) gamer movies. This little gem was the first bad game movie I discovered around the time I first started playing. I remember thinking "Wow..the game books don't say anything about what to do if the players go around killing people". Classic tale of psychotic gamer becomes too involved with his character (You'll see a pattern the more reviews you read on here) and thinks he has become a warlock. The first thing our intrepid Warlock does is mistake the quests from the Game Master as real instructions to go around killing people. When the adventure involved "killing the White Witch", he goes off an stalks and kills a nurse! A quick stop by the costume department of a play gets him a styling outfit for his alter-ego to feel more comfortable killing in. In different surreal sequences you get the ominous hint that there is yet another game being played with the young man's soul. After those non-dramatic as those scenes are the film climaxes in even less dramatic fashion after the boy is killed by the police. His friends then sit down for one last game and place a suit of armor in his place. But whats this?! The suit comes alive and kills the GM, finally ending the game/torture of a movie... |
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| This was a movie I fondly remembered from my childhood. I hadn't seen it for many years until the other night I caught it cable. I recalled it did have something to do with roleplaying and spies but that was it. Right at the start of the movie we learn that secret agent Jack Flack (who we just spent the last five minuates watching) is actually a young boy's RPG character from a game called Cloak & Dagger. (we learn this as Jack nearly gets crushed by a giant d12 when his miniature is almost hit by a 12 sider) Little Davey loves Jack Flack so much that Jack appears and taks to him as if he was real (much like Robert E. Howard used to have visions of Conan talking to him and telling him what to write). Davey's dream of being a secret agent comes true as he becomes involved in a murderous plot. Armed with a water gun pistol and basebal hand gernades, and with the help of Jack Black, he's able to foil the inept and laughable spies who hide military secrets in a video game cartridge. Towards the end of the movie, Davey snaps and "kills" his alter ego by stepping on his miniature. Thus doing what none of the other characters in these types of movies has done so far. Separate fantasy from reality! |
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