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Uwe Boll Has Three Picture Distribution Deal
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Zonk
on Fri Jun 08, 2007 02:06 PM
from the for-the-love-of-all-that-is-holy-make-the-burning-stop dept.
from the for-the-love-of-all-that-is-holy-make-the-burning-stop dept.
1up is reporting that famed, beloved film-maker Uwe Boll has landed a three-picture deal with a company called FreeStyle. They're going to be releasing three Boll-helmed films to theatres across the country. The three films are Postal, Dungeon Siege, and an original work by the director called Seed. "The high-profile cast of In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale -- Jason Statham, Ray Liotta, Ron Perlman, Leelee Sobieski, John Rhys-Davies, Matthew Lillard and Burt Reynolds -- means Freestyle's putting their muscle behind the fantasy epic. Opening January 18, 2008, the film's scheduled to appear in at least 2,500 screens -- a nice score for Boll, considering BloodRayne's distribution problems."
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Three full length movies?! (Score:5, Funny)
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-Rick
Pavlovian Reaction (Score:5, Funny)
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He's a disgrace to the notion of art, and humanity.
Not him, them! (Score:2)
What flabergasts me is that major actors are still voluntarily acting in them.
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That was all I needed to read. I would watch her reading the phone book.
Favors? (Score:2)
Distribution? (Score:3, Funny)
Ooh. I'd better be careful lest Boll challenge me to a boxing match. Unfortunately, he's a better boxer than filmmaker. Then again, he probably does everything better than filmmaking.
Problems (Score:2, Funny)
Sweet Finally (Score:4, Funny)
Forget Peter Jackson and Halo. Uwe Boll is the only man for that job. And for Zelda as well. I can't wait for his awesome Oscar-sweeping epic Dungeon Siege movie; I assume Burt Reynolds plays the donkey.
Finally! (Score:2, Funny)
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Big name actors (Score:2)
The big name actors made Bloodrayne seem even worse to me - I kept thinking what the fuck are you doing in this crappy movie?
And what are you even doing in this type of movie? I'm looking at you Michael Madsen. And you Michelle Rodriguez.
And the material they had to work with made them look like really lousy actors. What
Mandatory Penny Arcade Link (Score:3, Informative)
Oversaturated (Score:2)
So don't worry everybody, we can count on the market and people's good sense and intelligence to fix the problem.
Right...?
Re:Oversaturated (Score:4, Insightful)
It's not how it works. You see, some movies are so bad, I mean SO BAD, that they're good. The canonical example is "Plan 9 from outer space" (you gotta check this out).
If you thought Plan 9 is funny, then you will love Uwe's "Alone in the Dark" quite a bit more. The movie is so hilarious, that if they marketed it as a parody, I'd never suspect anything else.
The script, acting, editing, effects: everything is going to crack you up. And this is why, I like Uwe's movies and watch them. Especially good if you go watch it with some friends.
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Burt Reynolds? (Score:2)
Smokey and the Rogue
The Longest Furlong
The Best Little Whorehouse in Middle Earth
Cannonball Run
License to kill movies (Score:2, Funny)
Why hasn't someone taken this man's movie making license away!!!??? And what frickin suckers would give this guy money to make movies in the first place?????
The best scene in Bloodrayne was Meatloaf's naked vamp chick harem, then you he actually had to throw meatloaf in that scene which took it down a bunch of notches.
I saw a brief story a while back on Postal and thought to myself, um, like the game REALLY didn't have much of a story line. It was pretty much "
Ugh (Score:2)
"Uwe Boll and the German Tax Code" (Escapist) (Score:4, Informative)
Re:What I really want to know is (Score:4, Funny)
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