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11/30/2005: "Game not over by Chris Folino"

Yesterday, the realization set in, we canceled the reservations for the hotel rooms in Park City, Utah. We had booked ten rooms at the Best Western Hotel and we also canceled some deals with various local businesses to help promote the movie.

I had to give Manuel grief, because when he delivered the movie months ago for submission to Sundance he also dropped off some baked goods for the staff. I told Manuel that his baked good gave everyone diariah and that’s only reason the film didn’t get in. And the fact that Jesus hates him…very much.

And the reason we didn’t get into to Slamdance? The folks at Sundance shared the cookies with the folks at Slamdance and Jesus just happened to be hanging out watching Lesbian themed films that day.


By not getting into the festivals at Park City, it really only hurts me in one bad way.
I have to eat my own words that I said months ago to Charles Ryan from Wizards of the Coast, the people who own Dungeons and Dragons. I was so pissed in July when they wouldn’t support the movie and then took like a month and a half to get back to us that I told Charles in an email “I’ll call you from Utah in January, when the movie does well at the festival!”
I’m going to have to call him up and tell him we changed the title of the film to
"All Aboard! Rosie's Family Cruise," and we made the movie into a documentary film, and we changed the film’s storyline about a group of gamers to a story about “Rosie and Kellie O'Donnell who create a floating utopia for 500 gay and lesbian families.”
By, the way that movie really did get into Sundance this year and I do recall that I made fun of Rosie O’Donnell’s blog once, so look at Karma kicking my ass huh?
Hello, my name is Earl Folino and I’ve talked so much crap in my blog, that Karma is now punishing my movie from getting into any film festival.

I do want to say thanks and share some really nice emails from folks who responded to the news that we didn’t get into either Park City Film Festival.

I thought this was really cool from Chuck in Austin, Texas. I just met Chuck via email recently and it’s nice too know that if we get into the “South by Southwest” film festival we can all stay at Chuck’s house! I’m joking…can we please Chuck? Odds are good, we won’t even be coming if they program their movies like Sundance!

“Sorry to hear about the film festivals. In a small effort to start something that may perk up your spirits, I started a Frappr map for Gamers The Movie Fans. There are still lots of people out here that want to see the movie.

Thanks for the work and hope to see your movie soon”
Chuck
Grogtard

It’s a map of the world and right now it has two names of people who support the film, Chuck and me!


I did also enjoy the email from my brother Steven!
I didn’t publish the entire email, because, those parts didn’t have cursing!

“Take your movie to the people! Or in your case YOUR
people! Anybody who has EVER played DnD would Fucking
LOVE this movie. I totally agree with the warcry dude,
it will be a cult classic that outshines fucking
clerks by a long shot! Fuck, my guess is you stick
with the soundtrack and it fucking becomes "The Big
Chill" for OUR fucked up generation!”

“Lastly, Stick to your fucking guns man, take NO
bullshit, and don't FUCKING settle!! You know GOOD!
And this FUCKING movie is GREAT! I have not laughed
out loud at ANY fucking movie like yours since the
time we fucking saw Austin Powers II together...God I
love fucking midgets humping lasers!”

”2nd to Worse case scenario: Your family comes and
lives with my family and we shoot action-adventure,
musical, comedies in our back yard! “

Fuck yeah!

Love,
Steven

I love my older brother and I’m fond of the way this school teacher uses the word “Fuck” in a complete sentence! See Kids learning is fun!
And to jump to another academic scholar, I did get a nice email from Merritt Hemenway, my former high school principal who stated.

“You know "Gamers" is a very good and very funny movie. Soon enough you will
find the venue that accepts it and the others will lie in the dust wondering
if only... as you move forward. Have faith. You have done great work with
great passion. That always wins in the end!”

Enough about Park City! We have entered some other festivals and we will find out soon enough!
We have a lot to be thankful for! How many filmmakers get “Twins” delivered on the first day of shooting their movie?

By the way, my youngest son, looks like “Stewie” from “The Family Guy”
I’m very excited about dressing him up like “Stewie” and sending out threatening Christmas card this year!