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Recommended holiday movie: Lloyd the Conqueror (2011)

If you put Zero Charisma (which I mentioned earlier) on your list of movies to watch during the holiday downtime, consider adding Lloyd the Conqueror and making it a dorky double feature. Where Zero Charisma centred around table-top role-playing gaming, Lloyd the Conqueror is about LARPing: Live-Action Role Playing. Grown-ass adults bashing each other with foam swords. Take a look at the trailer:

You might recognize some of the faces: Brian Posehn as the Gandalf-esque character who owns the local gaming store and who teaches our young heroes to excel at LARPing, Mike “Bubbles from Trailer Park Boys” Smith as the villain, “the Darth Vader of LARPing”, and Evan “Kelly from Degrassi: The Next Generation” Williams as Lloyd, whose Faustian deal requires him to participate in a LARPing tournament in order to pass his class at Southern Alberta Community College.

Where Zero Charisma is aiming right at the people who both played D&D and went to SxSW Interactive, Lloyd the Conqueror is going for the people who both played Warhammer and watch Trailer Park Boys. It’s lower-brow, has bit of obvious Canadiana thrown in, and not afraid to get silly. It’s also going to annoy any  of your friends who are into LARPing, which depending on your point of view, may be a bonus.

Joey deVilla

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