If you're a gamer, I'd recommend one movie that's not on this list: The Gamers, Dorkness Rising. If you're not a gamer, I'd stay far away from it. Netflix recommended it as an instant streaming video, and I felt it was worth a look. Low budget. No name actors. Shot in a game store and presumably in actors' homes for the most part. Still, I gave it a four. It made me laugh quite a bit with references to Munchkins (the game), D&D, and a variety of other things that are amusing if you grew up playing fantasy and board games. I told Kyle about it, and it looks like he gave it a four. And during Axis and Allies this weekend (board gaming day on Saturday and we played an old school war game for most of the day - the Xeno edition), Adam asked if we'd seen it. So it's three for three among gaming dorks. That's got to be a good review if you can fit yourself into the category.
"All Lodge wants is for his gaming group to finish their adventure. Unfortunately, they’re more interested in seducing barmaids, mooning their enemies, and setting random villagers on fire. Desperate to rein in his players, Lodge injects two newbies into the distrust: a non-player character controlled by Lodge, who the power gamers immediately distrust, and the rarest gamer of all — a girl. Can the group overcome their bickering to save the kingdom, or will the evil necromancer Mort Kemnon triumph unopposed? A parody of fantasy films and the adventure gaming community, The Gamers: Dorkness Rising is a hilarious romp through the world of sword and sorcery — in this case, a world of exploding peasants, giant house cats, and undead roast turkeys. Game on!"
I'd use the list below, sans the scifi television series, primarily as a list of things to avoid.
| Tales of the Black Freighter / Under... | 2.0 |
| The Spirit | 1.0 |
| Knowing | 2.0 |
| The Unborn | 1.0 |
| I Love You, Man | 3.0 |
| Land of the Lost | 1.0 |
| Race to Witch Mountain | 2.0 |
| Adventureland | 3.0 |
| Observe and Report | 3.0 |
| Inside | 3.0 |
| Battlestar Galactica: Season 1: Disc 3 | 4.0 |
| Anvil: The Story of Anvil | 4.0 |
| The Horsemen | 1.0 |
| The Wrestler | 4.0 |
| The Burrowers | 4.0 |
| The Haunting in Connecticut | 2.0 |
| Crank 2: High Voltage | 2.0 |
| Battlestar Galactica: Season 1: Disc 2 | |
| Battlestar Galactica: The Miniseries | |
| Battlestar Galactica: Season 1: Disc 4 | |
| Doubt | 3.0 |
| Lost: Season 4: Disc 4 | 4.0 |
| Lost: Season 4: Disc 3 | |
| Lost: Season 4: Disc 2 | |
| Lost: Season 4: Disc 1 | 2.0 |
| Lost: Season 3: Disc 6 | |
| Lost: Season 3: Disc 5 | |
| Lost: Season 3: Disc 4 | |
| Lost: Season 3: Disc 3 | |
| Lost: Season 3: Disc 2 | |
| Lost: Season 3: Disc 1 | |
| Eureka: Season 3: Disc 2 | |
| Eureka: Season 3: Disc 1 | 5.0 |
| Eureka: Season 2: Disc 3 | |
| Eureka: Season 2: Disc 2 | |
| Star Wars: The Clone Wars | 2.0 |
| Eureka: Season 1: Disc 3 | 2.0 |
| Eureka: Season 2: Disc 1 | |
| Eureka: Season 1: Disc 2 | |
| Eureka: Season 1: Disc 1 | |
| Happy Endings | 2.0 |
| Badland | 1.0 |
| Towelhead | 3.0 |
| The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | 2.0 |
| Frostbitten | 3.0 |
| Splinter | 3.0 |
| The Chumscrubber | 4.0 |
| Wit | 5.0 |
| Frontiers | 3.0 |
| Cthulhu | 1.0 |
| Zombie Strippers | 2.0 |
| The Ruins | 2.0 |
| Insanitarium | 1.0 |
| Religulous | 2.0 |
| Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder | 4.0 |
| Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist | 4.0 |
| Role Models | 4.0 |
| The Midnight Meat Train | 3.0 |
| Run, Fat Boy, Run | 1.0 |
| Eden Lake | 2.0 |
| Max Payne | 1.0 |
| Quarantine | 3.0 |
| Pineapple Express | 3.0 |
| The War: A Ken Burns Film: Disc 2 | |
| The War: A Ken Burns Film: Disc 3 | |
| Zack and Miri Make a Porno | 4.0 |
| Man on Wire | 4.0 |
| Whisper of the Heart | 3.0 |
| The War: A Ken Burns Film: Disc 1 |
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