Role Models (the movie)

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#1

Has anyone else seen this movie? I watched it tonight and I can’t tell you how surreal it was to watch a movie which had larping as a fair chunk of the plot in a mainstream Hollywood movie. I was really surprised at how funny it was. It took the piss out of larpers but not in a mean spirited way. I found myself laughing at a lot of it and thinking how much I actually knew some people like that :slight_smile:

Even better, it’s great advertising. We had a new girl at Knightshade this weekend who had seen Role Models and wanted to try larping. Role Models, Google, new larper! I’m seriously pleased.

(Welcome, Gemma, if you’re reading this)

#2

I have, and I was alternating between cringing at how accurate some of it was, and how laughing at how accurate some of it was. :smiley:

#3

I’m surprised more people haven’t got into larping that way! Role Models has been out for awhile I think. But yay for me because it’s such an awesome story of how I got into LARP.

Gemma

#4

wow it has larping in it?

isn’t the rest of it just really low brow american comedy.

#5

its funney - laugh more :slight_smile:

#6

[quote=“Zannii”]wow it has larping in it?

isn’t the rest of it just really low brow american comedy.[/quote]That’s what I always thought… Although I did know (from the DVD cover I’ve seen in the video store) that at least one of the kids liked LARPing.

#7

This movie was funny. It took the piss at larp to begin with and then it showed that it could be damn fun.

At least 1/3 of this movie contains LARP. Not too mention that it has a rather fun LARP battle scene that essentially ends the movie.

And yeah it is cool this movie meant we got 1 new LARPer to play!

Gemma watched on Wednesday, emailed me Thursday (I think) and was playing on Saturday… that has got to be one of the coolest “How I got into LARP” stories. 8)

So yeah, yay for low brow american humour! :mrgreen:

#8

On a similiarish note, on Sunday, at 8:30pm, on the Documentary Channel ( i assume that is a sky option) is a documentary called Monster Camp. It is about the Seattle Nero larp. Variety called it “endearing as it is amusing”.

#9

Monster camp is terrible.

#10

This movie is the reason I signed up lol. Good movie. Havent been to any events yet, but looking forward to it.

#11

Welcome to our community :slight_smile: If nobody has tried to recruit you to Chimera yet, let me be the first! Chimera is a great way to try out larping because you get to try six different games/genres out in one weekend, and because so many people have signed up, you also get to meet most of the community.

#12

Ah anna, if the army hired you as a recruiter, their numbers would double :stuck_out_tongue:

#13

I love this movie… It was the reason i realised thats what i wanted to do! I love this movie i watch it over again all the time… I love that larp… I sorely wished i was there the entire movie!