Uber Goober (2004)

User Rating:

7.7/10   

Director:

Steve Metze

Genre:

Documentary

Tagline:

A film about gamers

Plot:

Über Goober focuses on the often-misunderstood, sometimes-controversial, and always-kind-of-geeky world of Gamers...

Plot Keywords:

Costume | Obsessive | RPG | Role Playing Game | Geek

Cast

E. Gary Gygax	...	Himself
John Kovalic	...	Himself
Michael A. Stackpole	...	Himself (as Mike Stackpole)
Christopher R.L. O'Neill	...	Himself (as Chris O'Neill)
The Great Luke Ski	...	Himself
Peter Adkison	...	Himself
Matthew Rollins	...	Bronco Reenacter - Reenactment

Also Known As:

Über Goober (USA) (poster title)
Gamers (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

87 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

Austin, Texas, USA

Company:

Scum Crew Pictures LLC

Trivia:

The film premiered theatrically to a sold-out crowd at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, Texas on 21 July 2004. The screening was introduced by "gaming legend" Steve Jackson, and director Steve Metze answered questions after the film.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Year at Danger (2007)

Soundtrack:

It's a Fanboy Christmas

Excellent

Brilliant debut documentary. A gentle, affectionate humorous look at a misunderstood and often-reviled sub-culture, the gamers. Not as sarcastic or obviously tongue-in-cheek as Trekkies was to Star Trek fans. Gamers are presented as imaginative, goofy, friendly, sociable and somewhat anal-retentive. Demented and sad, but social. The LARPers (Live Action Role-Players) are sweet, but cringe-inducingly earnest as they weep for fallen characters or batter each other senseless with foam blades in a "Braveheart"-like battle-scene, complete with crashing soundtrack.