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Uwe Boll Smash! 125

Posted by Zonk from the good-riddance dept.
Eurogamer has an interview with opportunistic license-killer Uwe Boll. In the interview, which is dominated by Boll's anger with game fans, he states that he's unlikely to see new game licenses for movies after he butchers Far Cry. From the interview: "In fact, it's not just confusing Boll - it's putting him off the whole thing all together. 'I won't say that I won't acquire another videogame licence in the future. But I'm not so eager to do it any more, to be honest. After Far Cry, maybe I'll go away from videogame-based movies. And everybody can be really happy about it.'"
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  • Finally (Score:5, Funny)

    by FidelCatsro ( 861135 ) * <fidelcatsro@gmaDALIil.com minus painter> on Wednesday February 15, 2006 @01:14PM (#14725904) Journal
    We have been telling him this since he made his first movie.
    Perhaps he could start making reality TV shows , The scripts would be better and the acting more convincing .

    • The burgeoning field of arithmetic (Score:4, Funny)

      by The-Bus ( 138060 ) on Wednesday February 15, 2006 @03:55PM (#14727040)
      Well, we can't fault his math. In the article, he says:

      Tons of journalists, including you, have nothing else to do than to follow the Internet voices of one or two thousand people. Only half of those people have seen my movies, and only two per cent of those people have seen my movies before House of the Dead.


      So in his estimates, that means about 500 to 1000 people have seen his movies and less than fifty knew him before House of the Dead.

      Based on the paltry box office results from his recent movies, I'd say that sounds about right.
      • The way I read that is, there's one or two thousand people on the internet complaining about his movies. However, there's many more people who have seen the movies, and aren't complaining on the Internet. Which is definitely true although I don't know if it proves anything.
    • Don't give him ideas! Good grief, he might starting making movies based on a Reality TV!!! AIEE!

      • Re:Finally (Score:3, Funny)

        by FidelCatsro ( 861135 ) *
        Well you see , When he makes movies about really good things , they are terrible.
        So my thinking on this is , if he makes movies about the worst thing to happen to TV since the Soap opera , they will be brilliant.

  • Happy post-Valentine's! (Score:5, Funny)

    by RyoShin ( 610051 ) <tukaro@[ ]il.com ['gma' in gap]> on Wednesday February 15, 2006 @01:14PM (#14725911) Homepage Journal
    I don't know about the rest of you, but I think Uwe Boll really showed his love today.

    Oh, and the whole "I'm getting out of video game movies" thing is pretty cool, too.

    What a nice after-Valentine's gift.

  • 10 times better? (Score:3, Funny)

    by Spy der Mann ( 805235 ) <spydermann DOT slashdot AT gmail DOT com> on Wednesday February 15, 2006 @01:15PM (#14725915) Homepage Journal
    Boll says the point is that his movies get better as his career progresses - Dungeon Siege is "ten times better" than BloodRayne, which is ten times better than House of the Dead, and so on.

    So, does that make each release 1 grade higher in the Richter scale or something?

  • the amazing thing (Score:4, Insightful)

    by gEvil (beta) ( 945888 ) on Wednesday February 15, 2006 @01:17PM (#14725934)
    The amazing thing about Boll is that he doesn't realize that his movies would still suck even if they weren't based on videogames. It's not the subject matter that kills them, it's his directing abilities.
    • his movies would still suck even if they weren't based on videogames.

      So true. But I think his movies suck more prominently because they have a built-in audience: gamers. If his movies weren't based on games, then absolutely no one would ever see them and there would be no flogging of Boll in forums across the internet. (Which, of course, is way more fun than actually sitting through his movies.)

    • I don't even think it's his directing abilities that actually executes the coup-de-grace, it's his complete failure to grasp that filmmaking should be an art, not an exercise in fucking economics.

      From TFA:

      Boll says the point is that his movies get better as his career progresses - Dungeon Siege is "ten times better" than BloodRayne, which is ten times better than House of the Dead, and so on.

      So fucking what? Since when, outside of primary school, did grown-up adults get "points for trying"?

      Grow up and stop
    • I almost hate to say it, but Alone in the Dark wasn't as bad as House of the Dead. I'll probably see BloodRayne when it's on the movie network, too.

      Worst part of Alone in the Dark was Tara Reid's "acting". The writing was pretty lame, too.

      Of course, I've never played Alone in the Dark.

  • Loophole... (Score:2, Insightful)

    by JediLow ( 831100 ) *
    Might this be because he isn't bothering acquiring any new licenses since the German tax loophole is finally closed? (I believe that he had FarCry before the tax laws were changed)

  • A Day in the Life of Zonk & Taco (Score:5, Funny)

    by eldavojohn ( 898314 ) * <eldavojohn@gm a i l . com> on Wednesday February 15, 2006 @01:24PM (#14725980) Journal
    Scene: CmdrTaco is sitting at his desk looking utterly depressed.

    Enter: Zonk.

    Zonk: Hey there, sport, why do you look so down?

    *CmdrTaco remains silent*

    Zonk: Still depressed about how your Valentine's date actually turned out to be a 38 year old Slashdot fan who still lives with his mom?
    CmdrTaco: [dejectedly] Yeah ...
    Zonk: Well, by golly, I know what'll cheer you up! Another Uwe Boll story on Slashdot!
    CmdrTaco: Nah, the readers are tired of making fun of the same damned guy over and over ... it's too easy [slashdot.org] for them.
    Zonk: Oh, come on! Then we'll put it in sectional content!

    *Zonk finds an Uwe Boll interview that he hasn't posted before [slashdot.org] and runs the story*

    Zonk: There! That should cheer you up! Just sit back and laugh as the replies roll in.
  • Boll confirms that Diff'rent Strokes and Postal star Gary Coleman is already signed up to play himself in the film

    C'mon... Gary Coleman? I don't get to see him anywhere but Avenue Q...
  • I know he was scheduled to run Dungeon Siege into the ground, too. Did he get the Far Cry stuff before or after it?

    I dunno that it matters a whole lot, I'm not sure either movie would earn my money. It will be nice to start bashing a brand new director of craptastic movies.
    • I'm not sure either movie would earn my money.

      German movie tax loophole.

      Look it up. it's there.

      Well, it was there, now it's patched. Uwe stops making movies. Coincidence? I don't think so.

      What happened is that if an investor lost money in a national cultural production, he had a tax break for the amount of money he put in, or something that would create that effect. Today, the same german investor cannot get any benefit from putting money in a movie that will not bring a revenue, and cannot get the break

  • Well.. (Score:4, Insightful)

    by BigZaphod ( 12942 ) on Wednesday February 15, 2006 @01:30PM (#14726031) Homepage
    ..there's at least one person in the world who thinks he makes awesome movies: Uwe Boll

  • Don't Judge (Score:2, Funny)

    by Ghost429 ( 828987 )
    "Before they judge, they should see the film, that's the first thing. Second, they should really try to compare it fairly, and not based on my name.

    Ok, I saw Alone In The Dark. It was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Happy now?
    • Tara Reid's performance was the absolute worst bit of acting ever in Alone in the Dark. EVER. I've seen kindergarten play's with more range and emotion.
      • I agree completely. It really pulled me into the story when she was attacked by an evil demon creature that could turn invisible at her place of work. After the attack, within an hour or so, she was calmly back at work. Now THAT is some work dedication!

    • Re:Don't Judge (Score:2, Informative)

      by Rico_Suave ( 147634 )
      A Rotten Tomatoes average of 7% is all I need to know, really.

      http://www.rottentomatoes.com/p/uwe_boll/ [rottentomatoes.com]

      I'm not going to blindly agree with every movie critic, but when they *all* trash *every* movie you make, it's time to consider a new career.
  • God Bless you Mr Boil!

  • Maybe there's something to this... (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Errandboy of Doom ( 917941 ) on Wednesday February 15, 2006 @01:42PM (#14726107) Homepage
    "Let's be realistic, what is House of the Dead? House of the Dead is a brainless shooter, where you shoot zombies into pieces. So what are you expecting from the movie, Schindler's List?"

    He might be saying something insightful about disposal culture here. Maybe Uwe Boll is secretly a postmodern hero, this generation's Andy Warhol [wikipedia.org].

    Of course, I never cared for Warhol much either.

    He also says his movies are successful "Not because I make the best movies on earth, but I make movies for a minimal amount of budget compared to what major companies are spending.

    This is pretty brilliant, and I'd hope other directors would start catching on.

    Primer [imdb.com] was made on only $6,000. If it didn't use film stock, if we encouraged digital production, it would've been less. Hopefully some directors with a little more interest in story will learn from Uwe just how easy it is to make films if you do so with a little mind for economy. If we economize film production, we'll democratize it, and in the end, get better films. Eventually. Unfortunately, along the way, we'll also get more Uwe Bolls - bad storytellers that the market can't seem to squash.
    • This is a very good point - the measure of financial success is not gross income, but return-on-investment, time, risk, and buy-in-cost. Boll's movies have quick returns, low buy-in-cost, and high return-on-investment. His proven track record in those lines make them low-risk too. I can see why he gets investors.

      Of course, that kind of approach is strip-mining. He not only damages his own reputation with these crap films, but the movie industry in general. If viewers start thinking "let's not go to the
      • Thats why we need tiered pricing at the theator. I'd be willing to pay 8 bucks to see a top rated new films, and possibly 3 bucks to see BloodRyne. Yes we have dollar theaters, but it would be nice to see the top of the line theators do such a thing as well so that these low budget movies can get the theator reception they deserve. Its like charging 8 bucks for a box of girl scout cookies then complaining that they are low budget cookies that shouldn't have been made.
    • It'd be one thing if he was making decent (or better) movies on a minimal budget.. but instead, he's making terrible movies on a minimal budget--something that's been done for many years (and often with large budgets, too!). At least if his movies were "bad" they could be considered "good" but instead they're just trash.

      He's no Warhol.
    • Primer was made on only $6,000.

      So was El Mariachi. I'd rather see anything by Robert Rodriguez, Spy Kids 3-D and Once Upon a Time in Mexico included, than anything by Uwe Boll.

    • "I think that Doom remembered me in a lot of the camera angles, what the creatures were doing and so on... I think the guy who made Doom definitely saw Alone in the Dark."

      Best..quote...ever.

      Okay, I'll admit it, I worship Uwe and hope he keeps making video game movies. Why? Because all video game movies suck (let's face it video game stories are trash to begin with--usually just cheap exercises in setting you up for some preditable gameplay). But at least Uwe's suck **ROYALLY**!

      I mean, they're so bad they'r

  • It's not me, it's everyone else! (Score:3, Insightful)

    by xymog ( 59935 ) on Wednesday February 15, 2006 @01:44PM (#14726120)
    My BS detector goes off whenever there are excuses for everything, and the excuses are always someone else's fault. "People don't understand my movies, game studios didn't back me up, game journalists slant everything, the haters are out to get me...." It reminds me of a saying: Just because no one understands you, it doesn't mean you're a genius.
  • While denying it at the same time. I'm a little tired of only getting questions from journalists like, 'Your movies were so badly received, blah blah blah.' I know tons of movies that were way worse than Alone in the Dark and House of the Dead." He doesn't actually say it's good. He just says "There sure are a lot of worse movies." Someone should tell him that being the best of the losers isn't anything to take pride in.

  • Whoa ... wait a minute... (Score:5, Insightful)

    by WidescreenFreak ( 830043 ) on Wednesday February 15, 2006 @01:50PM (#14726152) Homepage Journal
    Let me get this straight.

    We develop a fondness for a particular game. He gets the license then creates a movie that can only be described as a poorly-done "B" movie (yes, there are plenty of well-done "B" movies). Fans are greatly disappointed in what he did to the movie and by association the game. The fans voice their displeasure. Then he gets angry that fans are disappointed? What's wrong with this picture?!!!

    What does he expect fans to do? Just say, "Oh, thank you! Thank you for converting a game to a movie that I was hoping more than anything to end right after the beginning credits started! We are so grateful!"

    His views of the modern gamer and modern movie-goer is clearly so low as to be insulting. I've seen productions from amateur (read: still-in-film-school) movie makers that were wonderfully written with really impressive cinematogrphy and editing; I've also been on the crew of indepenent films that were fun to film and fun to watch because the director had a solid vision of what the scripts were trying to project. (No, not porn. Seriously!) If film students and amateur film makers can make entertaining movies on showstring budgets, there really is not much of an excuse for Boll (or any director) who has lots of funding behind him not to create a movie that's at least watchable.

    Unfortunately, there seems to be this distorted view within a lot of directorial circles that (HIGH PROFILE STORY or STORY WITH STRONG FAN BASE) + ACKNOWLEDGED STARS = GUARANTEED SUCCESS. I present as proof of this misguided belief Gigli, Bloodrayne, and Battlefield: Earth to name a few.

    Hey, Boll, don't let the gamepad hit you in the ass on the way out.
    • Given that some independent film makers do indeed make amazingly good films with shoe-string budgets, is it possible to make a good movie based on the same video games as the ones Boll used?

      Boll claims in the article that the reason his films suck is because the material is so shallow. It would be great if some independent film maker could prove him wrong by making a film that's dramatically better using the same material.

      Perhaps this has already been done? Anybody know of some independent filming attempt
      • Pirates of the Caribbean. Based on a ride at Universal Studios. All it takes is someone with vision and creativity, and you can make a good movie out of anything. Granted, that had a big budget, but it still was based on practically nothing. Judging from that, I'd say that yes, it's possible to make a good movie from a game with very little story.

      • Sorry, but I don't buy that at all! Lame excuse. (Score:5, Insightful)

        by WidescreenFreak ( 830043 ) on Wednesday February 15, 2006 @02:29PM (#14726414) Homepage Journal
        The source material and its "shallowness" are irrelevant. There are writers who could take a very basic story and with enough creativity to create an entire arc that is still relevant to the core story.

        There is a lot that could have done with, for example, Bloodrayne. The background on her character - half-human, half-vampire - is great fodder for some interesting character development. Note that in most sci-fi shows, characters of mixed races are the ones that often get the most intersting character arcs. Look at Spock, Troi, and Seven of Nine in the "Star Trek" series and how they often ran into problems with being a mixed race, whether that's from biological issues, prejudice, or something else. (Okay, Seven wasn't quite a mixed race, but you get the idea.) Rayne could have had a very interesting character arc in the hands of a good writer, which Bloodrayne: The Movie did not have.

        Her vengeance against those who murdered her mother certainly could have been expanded to involve some interesting twists and turns, particularly with the Nazi-era background of the original Bloodrayne. Exactly how did her mother die? Murder? Consequence of being raped by a vampire? How did Rayne find out who was responsible? Was her mother's murder really what triggered her rage against fellow dhampirs or is there some long-forgotten memory that is subconsciously driving her? Add a bit of "Indiana Jones"-style action and the Bloodrayne movie could have been very well done.

        Instead, we get a piece of schlock that was nothing more than the Bloodrayne name and blades with some blood and guts. Oh, and a very-easy-on-the-eyes babe. Hey, is that Ben Kingsley? That Ghandi guy? Well, that certainly gives the movie credibility! (Not.) It was poorly written, poorly directed, and poorly thought out.

        The fact that its source was a video game cannot be more irrelevant.
        • The source material for Bloodrayne, House of the Dead, and Alone in the Dark are almost ideal for movie making. Any zombie movie you care to name could have fit into the House of the Dead universe. With Bloodrayne, the source material is so farcically light that the writer basically has a free hand to write any story they like about a vampire woman with blades on her arms... so long as it is a good story. Maybe Nazis are involved somehow, maybe not. And Alone in the Dark has had a ton of outings and an
      • is it possible to make a good movie based on the same video games as the ones Boll used

        Making a good movie out of a video game and making a good video game out of a movie is difficult (as has been proven often enough), since the two are so damn different things.

    • How does one get into making porn, I don't know any people that are really dead on the inside. Any pointers?
    • ... but I'm apparently in the minority here. Just like I'm sure that people DO exist that liked Uwe Boll's films. ...

      Aside from his mother, I mean.

  • Whatever you say Mr Boll (Score:5, Funny)

    by vertinox ( 846076 ) on Wednesday February 15, 2006 @02:03PM (#14726240)
    "I get bashed as the worldwide enemy number one in film-making by people who are working at Starbucks and who also want to make movies. It's ridiculous - it's completely idiotic because they're hitting on a guy who actually made it happen, but I started my career in the same position as anybody else," Boll argues.

    Actually, we are bashing you because "you make it happen". Praise the lord that you are giving up on video game franchises.

  • Dungeon Seige (Score:4, Insightful)

    by C0rinthian ( 770164 ) on Wednesday February 15, 2006 @02:05PM (#14726250)
    Has anyone else seen the trailer [joystiq.com] for Dungeon Seige? Words cannot convey the levels of suckage this movie appears to achieve. It's got zombie NINJAS!

  • Uwe Boll sucks (Score:5, Interesting)

    by nEoN nOoDlE ( 27594 ) on Wednesday February 15, 2006 @02:17PM (#14726324)
    The real problem is that he doesn't even know why people hate him - which leads me to assume that he doesn't even read the criticisms and reviews of his movies. Well, I hope Uwe Boll reads this one, and it might clear it up for him. The problem is that he's obviously not a gamer. He doesn't seem to care about the game properties that he makes movies for, and he alienates the fans of those games, and all gamers in general. Gamers despise him because he seems to be hanging on to the coat tails of game licenses to make a quick buck and run - and he keeps doing it.

    House of the Dead the game was about a HOUSE infested with zombies, and some detective type people going in and shooting zombies - not a great or original premise, but that's the game. That's what he should have worked around to create a better plot. House of the Dead the movie, though, was about a bunch of college kids who go to a rave on an island with zombies. How is that anything like the slim plot that was already in the game?

    Alone in the Dark the game had a similar plot to House of the Dead in that there's a HOUSE and there's zombies - except this one had more potential to make a decent horror film, as even the name implies. But, Uwe Boll again scrapped everything that made the game what it was - except for zombies and monsters, and he made it into more of an action film.

    In the interview, Uwe Boll complains that games aren't known for their stories anyway. Maybe he should play them once in awhile instead of hunting for the cheapest license he could sink his fangs into. Maybe get a license for Grim Fandango, or Beyond Good and Evil, or Pandora Directive, or Gabriel Knight instead of some mindless shooter, and he'll have more material to work off of. However, as his history has shown to not follow the source material at all (however slim that material may be), I wouldn't trust him with those licenses either.

    If someone took Harry Potter and turned it into a teen comedy road picture taking place in the US, people would be pissed. So Boll shouldn't be surprised that fans are pissed that he doesn't stay true to his source material.
    • He said in an interview that he makes movies just like games. Action, explosions, and action. Which is why they fail.

      He'll go through entire teams of writers until they take his crappy advice on the script. There's a site about his firing of the writing team from House of the Dead and how he treated them floating around somewhere, check it out.
    • Maybe get a license for Grim Fandango, or Beyond Good and Evil, or Pandora Directive, or Gabriel Knight


      No, in the name of all that is good and holy, no. Those are good games with good story lines and I hope to god if anyone ever gets the movie rights to them it's someone who will do them justice.
      • well, yeah, I wouldn't trust him with those licenses either. It's just an example of games that have great storylines that would transfer well to film under the proper direction.
    • You see you got to give Uwe Boll credit for one thing and that is that no-one has done it better. Movies based on games suck. Well at least 'hollywood' ones do. The second D&D movie is passable B material and there was one japanese one wich was okay as well.

      The problem is that none of the movie makers seem capable of respecting the source material. Doom is of course the worst offender. Doom the game had three elements and the movie had none of them. It has already been discussed enough but it is true f

      • You see you got to give Uwe Boll credit for one thing and that is that no-one has done it better. Movies based on games suck.

        I saw Resident Evil 2 in the theaters. I thought it was good for what it was: cheesy fun. The acting was good. I liked the cinematics (atmosphere, lighting, etc). Most importantly, I was entertained. I didn't go in expecting a masterpiece.

        So I watched the trailer for Dungeon Siege [joystiq.com] that somebody else kindly posted, and it looked bloody awful. Nothing screams desperation lik

  • Jesus, some guys never get it, do they? He seems to see the games industry as some sort of trash can, where he (or someone) can dig the "buzzwords" (Alone in the Dark, Far Cry, etc) to put together his sorry excuses for a movie... Ok, so what if House of the Dead is a "shooter"... So the Bible is a bunch of stupid stories! It's not what it is, it's how it's made!! He talks about Schindler's List... What's that? It's a story about a guy that saves a bunch of people during a world war! So what, right? No big
  • It had to be said.
  • Well, I have some Karma I don't mind burning, so I'll play devil's advocate here for a while...
    ASSUME for a minute you have no idea who this "Uwe Boll" guy is or what he did, and also ASSUME for a few more minutes you never played any of the videogames he made into movies.

    Now the fun part starts.

    First, look at the budgets of his movies. And what actors played (so how much money went into the actual movie as opposed to payroll). And who the heck wrote the scripts.

    Take a peek at how (many) other movies with t
    • Oh, and I never saw any other game-based movie he directed... or at least I don't think I did (besides D.o.t.Dead and Bloodrayne, were there others?)

    • But, Doom actually TRIED... (Score:5, Insightful)

      by syberanarchy ( 683968 ) on Wednesday February 15, 2006 @03:12PM (#14726679) Journal
      At least Doom made an EFFORT to replicate the game on film. Yes, they changed the thing about hell to something about zombies. Yes, they forgot to put in a Cyberdemon.

      But it still took place on Phobos, still got in shots of all the required guns and enemies STRAIGHT FROM THE GAME, and even had an ENTIRE SUBPLOT revolve around Sarge's search for the BFG-9000. There were plenty of in-jokes for fans, like Karl Urban's character being named John, a dead scientist named Carmack, and Rock's utterance of the three words we were all waiting to hear once he found the BFG - the computer monitor might call it the Bio Force Gun, but we at least got to HEAR it get called the Big Fucking Gun.

      On top of that, I remember reading in an interview with someone from ID that the producers actually used art design from Doom 3 as a basis for the set design. You know what? It shows. The overhead lighting above doors, the fonts, everything seems ripped out of the game and come to life on screen - which is the WAY IT SHOULD BE.

      Was Doom high art? No. But it was awesome, awesome Nerd Porn, which is exactly what a good video game movie SHOULD be, and my friends and I had a great time sitting in the theater picking out all the references to the game we know and love. Boll has yet to accomplish this.
      • At least Doom made an EFFORT to replicate the game on film.

        That sums up the majority of most anti-Uwe Boll sentiment. Gamers don't care if 'they don't get it right'. They just care if they actually TRY. Case in point : Final Fantasy The Spirits Within. Where were the swords? The chocobos? The magic? Bahamut? Cid? Moogles? Spirits that travelled on a meteor?! A giant orbital space cannon?!? Way to throw out almost a decade worth of usuable content and come up with some entirely new B.S.

        Love it or hate it,

      • You are right about the Doom movie being far above and beyond Uwe Boll's regular crap...

        Unfortunately (obviously), that's because he had absolutely nothing to do with it [imdb.com].

    • I haven't seen Uwe Boll's movies, or even played the games they're based on. I have played Doom, though not seen the movie.

      IMHO, there are only two requirements for a Doom movie:

      1. It should make grown adults pee their pants in fear
      2. It should have a chainsaw

      The rest is negotiable. These two things leave a lot of room for any good horror writer to work with. With the right writer, it might even have a deep, engaging story to make it worthwhile aside from the scary parts, but I'm not going to demand that

    • Come on..

      What part of "Alone in the Dark", just the title, didn't he get..

      Alone: No.. a heavy commando of 20 soldiers does not even remotely look like "Alone".

      Dark: Not bright. Sunless. At least cloudy or sometimes underground. Cold, damn crypt or something.

      Put them together. Alone in the Dark.

      It's an insult.
      And I take it personally.
      Cthulhu fhtagn.

  • To put it another way... (Score:4, Funny)

    by djSpinMonkey ( 816614 ) on Wednesday February 15, 2006 @03:06PM (#14726645) Homepage
    "Boll says the point is that his movies get better as his career progresses - Dungeon Siege is "ten times better" than BloodRayne, which is ten times better than House of the Dead, and so on."

    Wait, I haven't seen House of the Dead, but is he saying that it was ten times worse than Blood Rayne!? That seems pretty implausible. I mean, it seems like "I'd rather gauge my eyes out with dirty shrimp forks than see this movie again" would be fairly close to the bottom of the scale.

  • the truth about Uwe Boll: bad on purpose (Score:2, Interesting)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Read Uwe Boll: Money For Nothing [cinemablend.com] for a possible reason his movies are so bad. Short version: video game licenses are cheap, and German tax laws make bad movies a write-off.
  • Did anybody else catch House of the Dead 2 [imdb.com] on the Sci-Fi Channel last saturday? Now, I only saw the first 15 minutes of HotD2, but those few minutes were funny and exciting, everything that House of the Dead [imdb.com] was not. If you want hard, scientific proof, check the IMDB user rating. HotD got got 2.1 out of 10 stars, while HotD2 got 4 out of 10 stars. It was almost twice as good, but, according to the Uwe Boll interview, he states each of his movies are ten times better than the last one. So if he made House of
  • To be fair, FarCry was B-Movie material in terms of plot anyway. The "acting" was ridiculously laughable, with the stereotyped male lead who's just out to kill everything that moves, or make moves on them (see also: female lead, with gratuitous semi-naked scenes of course). The revelation that the end bad guy is the one who's been helping you all along was an awful ending, so predictable and cheesy, and the plot itself was pretty poor. I don't think it could be "ruined" when it wasn't to the standard of, sa
    • The game had great atmosphere. The lush jungle environments felt straight out of the Predator movie. The AI was so great that it felt like you were being hunted. Boll wont be able to capture any of that. I predict Uwe and I will end up with a far cry from the game.
      • Actually, the lush jungle and nice beaches (with accompanying huts) looked like something out of a tourism ad. Heck, I'd like to spend a vacation in a lace like that.

        The FarCry screenplay should be written by the Penny Arcade folks. After I've read their FarCry promo comic I'm positive that it'd better movie material than what Boll is/will be using.
  • So at the end of the interview he says:


    Course he does. "Before they judge, they should see the film, that's the first thing. Second, they should really try to compare it fairly, and not based on my name.

    "If people really think I'm completely talentless, and this is to journalists, they should at least rent one of my earlier movies, like Heart of America, which is a really, really good movie.

    "And then they should say, 'Okay, this is the history of this director, we should judge him based on this.' They shoul
    • All it'll say is that the director might be "past their prime". And in his case, that prime would be "2" (only because 1 isn't prime).
  • Some guys are making a no-budget MGS3 movie and I'm more excited about this than about anything Mr. Boll made. They've got a trailer on their official website:
    http://corral.elrellano.com/ [elrellano.com]
    Mr. Boll even has a small cameo at the end. (In the english version at least.)
    (The special effects are made by the same guy who made the Nintendo ON fan movie a while ago.)
  • I didn't even know who this guy was before reading the article, but now that I know the crap he's responsible for, I can't stand him. And they say there's no such thing as bad publicity.
  • "I've met tons of people who think BloodRayne is way better than Underworld 2, but they're not going on the Internet and writing that...

    Oh, I'll write it, I'll write it! I may even believe it.

    But if you're aiming to be better than Underworld 2, the sequel to a movie about ass-kicking vampires fighting ass-kicking werewolves in which at the end there's an ass-kicking half-vampire half-werewolf, then it's like figuring you're damned already but you can at least try to get sent to the fourth level of hell ins
  • He's a typical incompetent, so much that he can't even see his own incompetence. [Sung to the tune of "Nowhere man."]
  • "I've met tons of people who think BloodRayne is way better than Underworld 2, but they're not going on the Internet and writing that..."
    And the lurkers support me in email!
  • Boll says the point is that his movies get better as his career progresses - Dungeon Siege is "ten times better" than BloodRayne, which is ten times better than House of the Dead, and so on.


    Psst... 10 times 0 is still 0...
  • Is Uwe Boll going to smash all 107 critics that panned Alone in the Dark? (1% on RT) Even the highest rated reviews there says it's only good because it's bad.
  • A rather amusing little tirade.
    Where to start...
    Ok first you took one of the most treasured PC games of all time, the Lovecraftian inspired Alone in the Dark, sets in in modern times and puts Tara Reid in it. I could honsestly care less about Dungeon Siege or Bloodrayne or House of the Dead, those games had little to no plot or atmosphere to them, but the steaming turd he made of AiTD is unforgivable. Movies based on video games have always been weak, but Boll has compined that with a budget movie menta
  • This is why Uwe Bol movies are crap, what would compel any sane person who has played postal to think "hmm this game is fun but what I would really enjoy is a movie based on this game"?!?!?! No one, same response to who would want to watch that movie.

    And I loved playing Postal and postal 2.

    Has Uwe Bol ever played any of these games? Who directed the Doom movie BTW? I just saw it last night (Netflix) and it sucked.

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