Knights of Badassdom

A busy, busy schedule has kept me away for a while, but I'm back! Thought I'd quickly plug this film, even though I haven't seen it. Geek culture is on the rise and it's nice to see a film that aims to respect it and take the piss out of it at the same. In my opinion, films in the vein of Scary Movie and Meet the Spartans have done nothing but damage the genres they try and spoof. For every clever joke (and those are few and very far between), there are dozens of juvenile sex and body humour jokes that seem below even the lowest common denominator of filmgoer. Studios seem less and less likely to take a chance on something different now that they've successfully conditioned teenaged audiences to flock to "hilarious" crap and generic, recycled garbage.

True, I'm basing my entire opinion of the film on this lone trailer, but it seems like The Knights of Badassdom has some heart to it as well, on top of humour, horror and geek references. Plus the cast is pretty great. Steve Zahn has really impressed me on Treme recently, and Summer Glau is... well... Summer Glau. Plus it has Danny Pudi (Community), Ryan Kwanten (True Blood), Jimmi Simpson (Always Sunny) and the always fantastic Peter Dinklage to round it out.

I'm not a role-playing kinda guy, but I think this film has a lot of potential to be wildly entertaining. I've attached the trailer below. Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt!