Bloodrayne Officially Awful

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

[voice_of_all_reason]

Because all the non Uwe-Boll video games movies were astonishing successes, right?

Mortal Kombat
Street Fighter
Resident Evil
Super Mario Brothers...

Maybe the Germans like him and his work?

[BulletMagnet]

*shrug* it's readily apparent that we in the US don't..... What say thee?

New Underworld movie

[Puhase]

It seems like nothing is going Mr.Boll's way. It took Bloodrayne a terribly long time to find a production company that was willing to carry this film and put it in theatres and now that he finally has, a far better movie starring a violent female vampire, Underworld:Evolution, is coming out this friday. Now I know many did not like the first one and will probably not like this one as well, but I believe we can all agree that it will seem like Shakespeare when compared to the visual abortion that is Bloodrayne. Those who appreciate this genre of movie enough to see such films will, hopefully, adopt the better of the two.

Re:Wrong

[aztektum]

Although this begs the question, why do we really need to make game -> movie adaptations (and vice versa) in the first place? I would rather each market battle each other out for our dollars by creating things that only that specific form of entertainment can provide rather than just milk each others ideas.

Of course the answer to this question is $$. From a purely marketroid point of you, you'd be crazy not to make a Halo movie because you're almost guaranteed a few hundred million above what you spent on production.

But fucking Bloodrayne? The mere fact they made a Bloodrayne movie at all is a joke. The game is nothing but a vampire Lara Croft, which is a license that itself has been milked into oblivion. (And yes I have played all of the games to some extent in each series I mention)

Re:Wrong

[milkman_matt]

I beg to differ. Something is lost. No one will make a proper adaptation of a video game movie when a crappy one has already been made.

First thing that came to mind for me was The Punisher (Although a comic movie, not a Game movie, but follow me here) The Dolph version of that movie was horrible and everyone you ask will say the same, the newer one that came out a couple years ago was quite a lot better. Same goes (loosly) for Batman, the first two were great, the second two were horrible, awful and should be destroyed, yet Batman Begins was totally redeeming... So they could possibly make a Bloodrayne II (or whatever flop game/comic movie) and make it better than it was before. I do agree with you though, it's hard... and you can't unsee the terrible movies that ruined the franchise in the first place. Ugh... Street Fighter....

Re:I can't understand!

[joshsisk]

Likely he is doing the same thing as many exploitation film distributors did in the days of yore... preselling foreign rights. It used to be standard to come up with a catchy title, tagline and poster, then pre-sell distribution rights for $300,000 here, $200,000 there... After awhile, you have enough money to make the movie. Boll could very well be doing something similar.