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Synopsis:
Starring indie favorite Aimee Graham,
“Fellowship of the Dice” follows the plight of
Elizabeth, a recovering party girl desperate for
a new group of friends. After a chance meeting
with avid gamer Sanford (Alastair Surprise)
lands her an invitation to play the popular
fantasy role-playing game, “Wizards, Warriors
and Wyrms,” she spends a long afternoon and
evening plagued with confusing rules, high
adventure and nerdy drama. Jasper (Jeff Coatney),
the Game Master, rules his gaming fiefdom with
an imaginary iron fist. His painfully shy wife
Gwen (Lucia Diaz) spends most of the game
quieter than a deaf and dumb church mouse. Kevin
(Jon Dabach), a temperamental eleven-year-old
trapped in a twenty-five-year-old’s body
continuously locks horns with Jasper over
everything from missing DVDs to his tyrannical
and unfair use of the game’s rules. Larry (Jon
Collins), the gregarious aspiring actor,
struggles to keep the peace. Things quickly
spiral out of control and Elizabeth is forced to
decide if she just wasted a night of her life,
or if she truly has something in common with
these oddball weirdoes.
Brian's Rating: C :
This movie is a mockumentary about gamers, specifically RPG'ers playing
a pseudo Dungeons & Dragons game. I am a gamer, and used to play RPGs quite a
lot, so thought it would be fun to get my geek on and watch this movie.
The movie is funny at parts and does a good job of accentuating the wierdness
that is found in most gamers. It is funny to watch a relatively normal good
looking girl get invited to a group of odd ball players. There are a lot of
antics in the film that you would only understand if you ever played a D&D
campaign.
The acting was not very good, and I am forced to admit that any non-gamer would
not find anything they like in this film except maybe a perspective they will
never understand. It was fun to watch, but outside of Nate, I cannot think of
anybody else that would agree.
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