Bloodrayne Officially Awful 78
Uwe Boll's latest attempt to kill the future of gaming movies is officially terrible, reports Next Generation. From the article: "Filmjerk: 'In his mind, [Boll] is Steven Spielberg; arranging danger and adventure on the screen with clarity and a roaring sense of excitement. However, the tragic reality is that Boll has all the artistic ability of the average 4th grade finger-painter.'" Update: 01/09 21:33 GMT by Z : 1up has a short and telling interview with Mr. Boll from this past weekend.
Re:Wrong (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Dictionary Addition (Score:2, Informative)
bollshit
combined from Uwe Boll, worst movie producer/director this planet has ever seen (Alone in the Dark, House of the Dead), and "bullshit"
(1) term to describe the end product of a Boll production
(2) rating for a movie or scene that was just as good as if it was made by Boll himself
(1) "Dude, did you hear who's gonna direct the adaptation of 'Dungeon Siege'?"
"Yes, and it will end up being the same bollshit as usual"
(2) "Hey, what did you think of that one scene in Battlefield Earth when Travo.."
"Oh for gods sake, dont talk to me about that bollshit!"
Re:Hey now! (Score:3, Informative)
At least Resident Evil Movie stole scenes directly from the CGI of the games'
Remember the scene where she dropped the gun to catch it to shoot the barrel. Taken directly from the CGI cut scene scene in Resident Evil: Codename Veronica. Generally they kept to the plot of the game. That and it was rather successful.
Well... When you compare it to Mario Brothers and Street Fighter... *coughs*
Re:I can't understand! (Score:4, Informative)
Under the German tax system, if the movie tanks, the investors make a mint through a tax loophole. Video game movie rights are sometimes really easy to obtain if your a big studio. Big studio execs then form a shell German corporation and invest in the movie through that. When the movie tanks, the investors (studio) makes a mint.
Hollywood is too cutthroat to allow this kind of crap to be released for no reason.
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There is not a shortage of video game movies, and none of those above (to my knowledge) were directed by Uwe Boll.
Duh. (Score:4, Informative)
Of course it's bad.
That's the best interview I've ever read... (Score:4, Informative)
But seriously...
Yes, THAT is how to cast a film!
Re:I can't understand! (Score:5, Informative)
So how does Boll exactly benefit from this? His movies are too low budget to benefit from this shell game, studios like doing this with big budget movies because it benefits from an economy of scale. Trying to make a $1 million off of a $10 million dollar movie doesn't work as well because too much of the profit margin gets eaten up with lawyer fees and the like. BloodRayne is his biggest budget film yet, and from what I can see it's right around $20 million which is not enough. German investors aren't going to directly invest in his films if they don't return at least 60% of their investment, and I don't think any of them have. I'm still voting on blackmail polaroids of various studio executives as the most likely explanation.