Hey, remember Knights of Badassdom? Okay, maybe you don’t, but two Comic-Cons ago I saw a guy with a centaur costume with extra horse legs that moved along with his real legs, and another six-foot-six dude with a giant stuffed bear’s head, and I thought they were the best costumes I’d ever seen. Then I found out they were pros, hired to promote a comedy set in the world of LARPing and Ren Faires and lightning bolts, Knights of Badassdom.
Like I said, that was two years ago, and movies rarely age like wine. The film, from relative unknowns Joe Lynch (director) and writers Kevin Dreyfuss and Matt Wall, still doesn’t have a release date, but it does have a new trailer, starring Peter Dinklage, Danny Pudi (Abed from Community), Jimmi Simpson (McPoyle from It’s Always Sunny), Steve Zahn, and Summer Glau. It seems like weird stuff like this always happens to Steve Zahn movies, doesn’t it? What else do you say about a guy who’s been in Sahara, Strange Wilderness, *and* Daddy Day Care? If actors were half as superstitious as sailors, he’d have gotten his jinxing ass thrown overboard years ago.
It looks like they went the supernatural angle. I could see that making it difficult to get the tone right. If you’re into LARP movies, there’s a movie on Netflix called The Wild Hunt, where the LARPers start taking it too serious and it turns into a Lord of the Flies-type thing. I don’t know if I’d call it good, but it’s definitely one of those movies where you’re constantly saying “whoa, what the f*ck just happened?”
In this one, the terrifying villain is a pretty girl. That seems fitting.
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Seems… cute. I saw The Wild Hunt a while ago. It was promising, but you could really feel the low budget and the director’s inexperience with features in the third act. The last minute was great though.
“The Wild Hunt” was…well, Vince actually described it pretty well. I liked the movie, and admired the fact that it was made at all, especially on a shoe-string budget.
The last minute was classic.
This trailer isn’t close to new. I saw this exact trailer almost a year ago. It is still awesome though and I can’t wait for the actual release.
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Yeah, if you put Abed and Tyrion in the same movie, I’m at least going to Netflix it.
I really *want* to like it, and that’s probably not a good thing. The smart money almost never goes with Steve Zahn, though you thow in Timothy Olyphant and “A Perfect Getaway” ends up pretty entertaining. Zahn as a secret psychopathic killer is a winner.
I like Zahn. “Joy Ride” is a guilty pleasure for me, largely because of him. The bit with his brother, talking about growing up…”Playing catch with dad in the yard…oh, wait, that was someone else’s life.” I liked that.
Don’t blame all that shit on Zahn. He was the shit in Saving Silverman and M&M killed himself in Sahara.
Silverman was great despite itself.
As long as Collin Farrell punches Peter in the face I’m in.
That wasn’t Dinklage.
Like that matters, the awesomeness of Colin midget punching is not dependent on the midget getting punched.
Badassdom is what Fek calls the shitter after burrito night. Aslan is on the mooooove!
Zahn was really good in Rescue Dawn, although a Vietnam POW movie made by Christian Bale, Steve Zahn and Werner Herzog, produced by Elton Brand, admittedly sounds like Satan’s Mad Lib.
I actually want to like Steve Zahn more than I currently like Steve Zahn. Sahara is a guilty pleasure.
That actor lineup is an Alan Tudyk role and a Bruce Campbell cameo away from being a true geek’s ideal cast.
I wouldn’t consider myself a geek, but that cast gave me a chubby.
Then sorry to break it to you, Zifko: A geek thou art
Now now, in fairness to Zifko, Thoughts of Summer Gau have given lots of men chubbies over the years.
Come on, let’s be honest: it’s Dinklage+Abed that is giving us all chubbies.
The LARP stuff in Role Models was good tool. I have to admit, those fuckers do look like they’re having fun. Much more so than the dipshits who play Quiddich.
“Let us gingerly touch our tips!” Joe Lo Truglio improves pretty much every movie he’s in.
I’m in, midgets doing drugs will never not be funny
Goddamn, sometimes I forget how hot Summer Glau is.
Yeah. Joss Whedon will be remembered for many things, but discovering Summer may be his most important contribution.
Also, letting us see her naked for a split second in the first episode.
Was it delayed because of Lloyd the Conqueror? That movie fucking rules.
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Who’s the dude in the wheelchair? That’s not Bryan Cranston, is it?
Is that succubus the Directv Genie? Because that would explain a lot.
Don’t forget Your Highness. One of the more realistic LARPing movies.
It is estimated that bears kill over two million salmon a year. Attacks by salmon on bears are much more rare.
Summer Glau: now causing movies to be cancelled prematurely too.