Free to Play (2014)

hyped garbage

Excellent but underrated film

Boring

Beautiful, moving film.

Free to Play is a 2014 documentary film by American video game company Valve Corporation. The film takes a critical look at the lives of Benedict "hyhy" Lim, Danil "Dendi" Ishutin and Clinton "Fear" Loomis, three professional Defense of the Ancients (DotA) players who participated in The International, the most lucrative eSports tournament at the time. The central focus of the film is how their commitment to DotA had affected their lives and how this debut tournament for the sequel, Dota 2, would bring more meaning to their struggles.

First of all the movie for everyone. Every person who doesn't understand anything about e-sports and e.t.c. Its a story about players, about their live, activities, feelings. It shows us how hard can it be for player in his life. Because they are not ordinary people. Their parents think that they are spending their life for video games. They don't want to disappoint their parents friends. This movie is a best example to let people know that video games are not only resource to spend your life but also resource to do what u like mostly in your life and even earn some money. I am a player of Dota 2 and i loved this movie. Recommend for everyone. Sorry for my broken English

Hello mi name Eries Luís and i is from Le Portugal. Me is also a player from Dota 2 and be following that game from DotA. This film is very like my life with the difference that i play bad do-to and nobody noes me. It is my dream to be don-do and teener Una sister like don-do sister. Hyhy and fear are bad at do-to and have no sisters like don-do sister. Love this Filmer pols watch. Me favored champ is pudgy and DAT why i love don-do and his Hermina. If somebody noes don-do sister pals tell him to her teach me to finger like playing don-do invoker. Pls no coppering pasturing fricasseeing my dangering sorry for my bad englander.

I had intended to just watch the opening, after so many people I know were recommending this to me. "I gave it a shot," I was going to say. "It's just not my thing." Minutes later, I was shushing my family so I could hear the movie. I couldn't turn it off until the credits rolled. SO good. Such a fantastic character study of these quite different people, their quite different lives, and their shared dedication to Dota.I'm not into Dota. Not even a little. I think I played it one time, and didn't enjoy it. I wasn't expecting to enjoy this either. 75 minutes of Dota? Yawn.But it's not 75 minutes of Dota. In fact, for a documentary about a Dota tournament, there's very little Dota in it. They don't really explain the game much at all, or why certain units were chosen over others. This was 100% fine with me (since, let me stress, I am not into Dota). Instead, it was all about the _players_, and was incredibly compelling.Who do you cheer for, when you have sympathy for all of them?