The Guild
The Guild
TV-14 | 27 July 2007 (USA)
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  • Reviews
    Jenna Walter The film may be flawed, but its message is not.
    Brennan Camacho Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.
    Skyler Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.
    Staci Frederick Blistering performances.
    ikrani This show paints itself as a comedy about gamers. It isn't. It is a mean-spirited caricature of the worst types the gaming community has to offer: the addict, the neglectful parent, the shameless douche, the stalker, all of them unfunny and unappealing to me."You're just mad because it's making fun of you." Wrong; I'm mad because the characters aren't characters, they're just unfunny archetypes that exist within the gaming community. They could've been clever or somewhat original with the comedy, but instead they serve up every half-baked joke that you'd expect from a show that makes fun of gamers: the annoying doucheface who makes inappropriate comments and who in real life no one would want to play with; the neglectful parent who LETS THEIR INFANT PUT THEIR MOUTH ON A CIRCUIT STRIP. Am I supposed to laugh at how this person is endangering their infant child? Because the possibility of a horrifying death by electricity is not humorous at all.Now, a caricature of gamers can work. Dead Gentlemen Productions has made no less than THREE movies poking fun of gaming and how in to it gamers can get. Granted, the third was only half-good, but the point stands that their characters have more to them than just gaming. They have weird quirks and styles of playing that are hilarious to everyone except their Dungeon Master,Overall, The Guild is crap, the jokes are not funny, and there's no real conflict to speak of that I would care about, since I would gladly load all of these people (plus the film crew) on to a rocket and send them to Ceti Alpha 5 in a heartbeat.
    Andy T Ignore people like shawnie138. He obviously has clear mental issues as obvious in his review wanting people to die. Moron. You don't have to be a gamer to enjoy this. It's fun. Pure and simple. Fun. I used to be a hardcore online gamer (then had to cut down due to the sheer number of adults acting like kindergarten kids in-game and ruining it for everyone else) so this got my interest. And I enjoyed it. When people start to nerd rage over a programme purely because it's unrealistic-even though it's just a TV show that's made for fun-it's obvious this show ain't for them. Just chill, relax and give it a shot. If you don't like it, it's a shame yeah. But at least you're not like the other idiotic reviewers who went into total butthurt mode over a TV show. Just grow up guys. You're embarrassing yourselves. TV shows are made for escapism. Live a little for gods sake.
    Andrew Moran As a Buffy fan, and after seeing the adorable Felicia Day in the hilarious Joss Whedon Internet show, "Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog" (she also had a recurring role in the last series of BtVS and also appeared in Dollhouse), I then found out that she had created her own web show, so I knew I had to check it out - and when I finally did, I was not disappointed.Day has created a wonderful set of socially inept characters whose real world lives revolve around their their un-named (MMORPG) Internet game, which they play as a group, but separate from each other from their own homes.Prior to one group member ("Zaboo") tracking down Day's character ("Codex"), in order to express his undying love for her ( although he only knew her on-line character and her avatar), the group had not met each other in person, so as actual, social interaction increases, so does the scope for comedy.An admitted on-line gamer, Day's witty and well-observed set of otherwise eclectic characters and their gaming foibles, whilst also being joyfully stereotyped, are a great bundle of laughs - but that is also largely down to the superbly cast set of actors playing each of the main characters.Such is the skill and ease with which they have assumed their roles, I found myself checking to see what they had all been in before, feeling sure that I had seen them in something, but instead found - to my very great surprise - that it simply was not so. For me, that is unheard of, and I feel slightly chagrined, but it is also a testament to the cast.Jeff Lewis ("Vork") and Sandeep Parikh ("Zaboo") in particular, may well find that further fame awaits them, but as Day herself has stated, she had to turn to writing in order to find the sort of regular acting role that suited her, blaming and also thanking the very people who had constantly rejected her for parts. I don't think I've ever used the phrase before in my life, but, "You go, girl!"Day successfully and skilfully avoids making the script and stories too reliant on gaming or Internet jargon, and as part of the extended "Whedon family", there are distinct traces of the Whedon style and humour in there too, all of which helps also to give the show a broader appeal than you might imagine, if you were, say, a Hollywood TV Exec wanting to hear a pitch for a new TV show, and you were told about this before it had been made on the shoestring budget that it started with.As I said up top, I went from Buffy to Dr Horrible to this, and will undoubtedly now check out "The Jeff Lewis 5-Minute Comedy Hour", so I have no doubt at all that Joss Whedon is looking on to all this very proudly - and rightly so.
    CSMITH424 I stumbled on this while playing around on ITunes. I have to say this is by far the most entertaining and amusing pod-cast I have ever seen. The combination of "The Office" and RPG's is the most original concept I have ever seen. It is painfully obvious that someone on the writing staff is a Gamer. The only possible complaint I could have is that the episodes are too short. I would actually watch a 30 minute episode of this on television. Of course I am a geek, which drew me into this in the first place. I watched the first five episodes immediately, and as soon as I found the official website, I watched episode 6. I cannot wait for the newer episodes to release. I think I can say I'm truly a Guild junkie. Plus, Codex is HOT!!!