In the spirit of the Halloween season, I watched The Knights of Badassdom with my boyfriend. As expected, it was both cheesy and hilarious. For those of you unfamiliar with this phenomenon, here is the YouTube official trailer. In summary, Joe is an intelligent underachiever who lives with his accidental millionaire friend in a castle. When Joe is dumped by his long-time girlfriend, his friends decide it would be a great distraction to kidnap Joe. He wakes up at a LARPing (Live Action Role Playing) expedition at the "Fields of Evermore" (a large parking lot near a forested park). There, an "epic battle" is about to take place. It's all going pretty well until Joe's sorcerer friend accidentally summons a succubus that looks exactly like Joe's ex-girlfriend. The succubus wanders around the forest attacking LARPers, who mistake her for a lost LARPer soul who has stumbled upon the "wrong" LARPing event. Joe and his friends must send the succubus back to hell.
This movie is exactly what you would expect from the summary. It's silly. It's funny (if you "get" LARP). And it's gory, but only in a humorous way. One of Joe's friends is played by Peter Dinklage (of Game of Thrones fame). Yes everyone. You can stream this on Netflix.
For humor, originality, and quality LARPing
Reason for watching: Thought this would be a nice touch for the Halloween season
Is this a more colourful army of darkness or is it more self-aware bad camp?
ReplyDeleteHmmm. That's a hard question since I haven't seen Army of Darkness in a while (I probably should!) I'd say it is about the camp style of AoD, not sure exactly what you mean by self-aware? Do you mean that AoD wasn't aiming for camp, and do I think KoB was? Yes, KoB was definitely self-aware bad camp in that sense.
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