Lightsaberboy Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 That's right, folks. After 'Farcry", Uwe Boll is might stop making video-game movies! http://psp.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3148099&did=1 my favorite line from the article: "The dangerous thing right now is that a lot of people bash me without thinking about the movies. It's fashionable to hit on Uwe Boll, and this is what I don't get. And I don't get why this comes so harshly from the games press." I find it funny that he doesn't understand why people don't like him. offtopic: 800th post! YAY! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manoman81 Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 Hmmm...Why do gamers like to bash Uwe Boll? Well...let's see.... Maybe it has to do with the fact that he takes video game plot lines and just completely trashes them to the point that they don't even look like the game to begin with. The sooner this guy just quits making movies in general, the better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BongoBob Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 I don't care if he stops making movies, just as long as he stops raping some of my favorite video games : | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ET Warrior Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 This may be the best news to come out of anywhere ever. I find it humorous that he doesn't understand why people are ripping on him. Has he not noticed that all of his movies got universally bad reviews and made no money? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumor Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 thank god, he's a moron who can't even see the very obvious reasons why people hate him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boba Rhett Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 What? Surely you jest, good sir! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Seeker Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 Everyone knows that there are those who just have innate bad taste in movies. Occasionally, they become directors who make innately bad movies. His name is Uwe Boll. That is all. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prime Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 thank god, he's a moron who can't even see the very obvious reasons why people hate him.Just like he can't even see the reasons why his movies suck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samuel Dravis Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 I wonder if Germany closed its tax loophole he was using then... EDIT: HA! They did! There's your reason he's quitting. Talking about Postal seems to have cheered Boll up a bit, so let's throw in a tricky question while the going's good. Is there any truth in those rumours that Boll has been exploiting a tax loophole in German law to fund his films, and to provide a dodgy tax break for investors? "There is no loophole," Boll says - at least not any more, it seems. He explains the situation used to be that if you invested, say, $100,000 in a movie, you could reduce the income you pay tax on by $100,000. As a result of this, German investors funded around 30 per cent of Hollywood movies, but all that's changed since the law was amended in December. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IG-64 Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 I don't think i've ever seen any of his movies, but i've heard they were terrible. At least he didn't get to Zelda or something like that. o.o The horror. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapNColostomy Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 Here's my favorite part of the interview. I've never seen one of his films, so I'm pretty impartial on the subject of whether or not his films are good, but he makes a very nice argument for himself and his work here: "And besides, says Boll, what exactly is it that we are expecting from him? After all, he is using videogames as his source material, and they're hardly reknowned for their complex characterisations and sophisticated narratives. "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?" I've wondered the same whenever I see people trashing his flicks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BongoBob Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 Look at alone in the dark though : | On second thought, save yourself and don't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manoman81 Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 Well, if he says that video games don't have a real plot other than to shoot things, wouldn't that be a clue as to whether or not they would make a good movie? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TiE23 Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 "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?" I've wondered the same whenever I see people trashing his flicks. Well, that makes sense... I didn't see Blood Rayne, even though one of my friends suggested it, I greatfully explained how I make good movie choices, where I say we see Serenity while he says we should see Doom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapNColostomy Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 Well, if he says that video games don't have a real plot other than to shoot things, wouldn't that be a clue as to whether or not they would make a good movie? I think that's the point he was making... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BongoBob Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 then why make them in the first place : | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapNColostomy Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 Because people will watch them? Since when does something being worthwhile or good have anything to do with what people like? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightsaberboy Posted February 24, 2006 Author Share Posted February 24, 2006 Well, if he says that video games don't have a real plot other than to shoot things, wouldn't that be a clue as to whether or not they would make a good movie? oh, they do have plots. Some games have really complex and intriguing ones too. the MGS series, Kindom hearts series, and Silent Hill are among a few. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IG-64 Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 Eternal darkness. Cept Eternal Darkness doesn't need a movie because of it's awesomeness. >_> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BongoBob Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 Because people will watch them? Since when does something being worthwhile or good have anything to do with what people like? Unfortunately you speak the truth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabretooth Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 ...right. It's a good thing I've never even heard of this guy. Sounds Pathetic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toms Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 "And besides, says Boll, what exactly is it that we are expecting from him? After all, he is using videogames as his source material, and they're hardly reknowned for their complex characterisations and sophisticated narratives. "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?" I've wondered the same whenever I see people trashing his flicks. Except that his movies usually actually significantly WORSEN the plot, dumb it down, change all the bits people loved and pretty much trample all over the expectations of fans of the game. And therefore makes people think that videogames are all dumb. And then he has the gall to blame the videogames...???!?! Ok, House of the dead was a weird choice, and probably would never have been intelligent.. but his movie didn't even have a HOUSE!!! Plus he is such an incompetent direcor that he copuldn't even put together an average zombie slasher flick... heck i could do that. Alone in the dark had an interesting setting, plot and characters... so he dumped all that. Bloodrayne actually had good potential to be a fun-but-dumb blade style movie... but the two things that set it aside from blade and all the other vampire action flicks were: missisipi and nazi settings. So he dumped that an put it in ancient castles??? He'll probably set Dungeon Seige (another weird choice) on the moon and Farcry in 60s New York. More and more games DO have complex plots and characters.. often moreso than movies due to their much longer running times. All japanese RPGs, resident evil (another seires dumbed down and changed unnecisarily - but not by him this time), Deus Ex, Thief, Chronicles of Riddick (better plot and characters than the movie!), AvP2 (again better plot than the movie) etc... Its just that those making the movies pick dumb films (HOTD, Dungeon Seige, doom, halo, Mario Bros, Streetfighter etc..) that either have no plot, or are generic in terms of setting. And then they don't get what is important to the franchise, change the important bits and keep the irrelevant bits, dumb it down even more... and then blame video games for being dumb... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapNColostomy Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 How about instead of blaming him or the games, blaming the audeince. Film making is a business. And like all business's, if they aren't making money, they go out of business. Someone's watching this stuff, and it ain't me. It seems mostly to be people that hate his movies that are watching them, which I find to be odd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samuel Dravis Posted February 25, 2006 Share Posted February 25, 2006 How about instead of blaming him or the games, blaming the audeince. Film making is a business. And like all business's, if they aren't making money, they go out of business. Someone's watching this stuff, and it ain't me. It seems mostly to be people that hate his movies that are watching them, which I find to be odd.I don't think that he really cared about what audience he had. With that German tax loophole, I think that people were actually paying him to produce low budget movies and bomb them. Of course, now that's gone, it's no longer expedient to do so and he's calling it quits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toms Posted February 25, 2006 Share Posted February 25, 2006 I'm not sure any of his video game movies has actually made a profit.. so you can't blame the fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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