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the director who consistently makes horrible movie adaptations of video games
- and yet still gets contracts to make more!
Some great games I know which he failed to adapt to film:
Alone in the Dark - dark is right! I could hardly see anything.
They really should have stuck with the haunted house theme.
Bloodrayne - not a great career move for Ben Kingsley or Kristianna Loken.
This is Uwe's worst offense, in my opinion.
Silent Hill - where are the nurse demons? I felt like I was watching The Wicker Man - with fog.
I believe these movies have done no good for the games industry as a whole.
People who have not played these great games may not ever want to should they happen to see Uwe's movie version beforehand.
Then there is the real question in my mind - why did they let this guy make more than one movie adaptation?
Did they not see the other shows he had made?
IN general I have one major complaint about these and all game movies:
when they adapt a game into a movie, why do theychangeso many things - is the original concept not good enough?
(On that matter Uwe isn't the only one who did that: Max Payne was nearly unrecognizable in the characters' movie personas and the addition of the 'Dark Valkyries' as seen by Valkyr users.)
My point is that the game itself was good enough to sell the billions of copies which in turn allowed for the making of the movie adaptation, so what gives?
Just once I would like to see a literal translation of game to film with no changes.
Certainly Uwe isn't going to provide this, but if you want to criticize him in person I understand that he extends an open invitation to meet him in the boxing ring.
Uwe Boll seriously needs to get out of film making. He has yet to make a excellent movie. I'd take him anyday in boxing.
Hey, uh..i agree with you and all just..do you mind not sharing your furry signature with everyone? I never really saw anthromorphic foxes as "cute" or "beatiful" but, hey! who am I to judge? Final word: please. Please. reconsider. kthxbye
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Hey, uh..i agree with you and all just..do you mind not sharing your furry signature with everyone? I never really saw anthromorphic foxes as "cute" or "beautiful" but, hey! who am I to judge? Final word: please. Please. reconsider. kthxbye
Hey, uh..i agree with you and all just..do you mind not sharing your furry signature with everyone? I never really saw anthromorphic foxes as "cute" or "beatiful" but, hey! who am I to judge? Final word: please. Please. reconsider. kthxbye
If that was directed at me: I don't usually like furries either, I just like this one, but as soon as I find something to replace it, I will consider.
Would you mind not sharing your chatspeak with me then?
If it was not directed at me,. then please speak up, as I like my signature as is.
I had no idea who he was until now. I never saw Alone in the Dark nor Bloodrayne, but Silent Hill was a decent movie. It's also the only game I've played of three.
Silent Hill was a decent movie. It's also the only game I've played of three.
If you played the game, then weren't you disappointed not to have seen a whole 'hospital' section in the movie?
That was half of the game's appeal for me.
Also, I wonder why James never made it as the lead character; but then I already said I am in favor of literal translation.
Yeah it would have been nice to see all of the game in the movie, but then that would make for a very long movie. I never really finished the game iether, so I don't remember too much about it. I had rented it back in the day and didn't get to finish it on time. I did like how the creepy babies turned out.
JZ3000:
These games are on their way out it seems as I have been getting games for Gamecube/PS2 for 5-15 dollars CAN.
This is the perfect time to go find the ones you never got to finish -
(pawnshops still have them at decent prices, but watch out for game specialty stores and flea markets as they try to sell them as 'rare antiques' and the price goes way up.)
and Silent Hill 2 has a worthy ending, in my opinion.
I can't say I remember creepy babies too vividly, but I sure do remember that haunted prison - it's just as scary as the hospital or perhaps even more so.
DM:
I am a believer, when it comes to new movie titles I'm interested in.
Looking forward to a new theatrical experience I suspend disbelief and allow the movie to take me on a ride.
It becomes disappointing when the premise of the movie is betrayed by inconsistencies, changes to the characters and storyline which make no logical sense, and cinematography so dark it is impossible to distinguish what you are looking at on the screen even in a dark room.
It sounds to me like you fall into this trap the same way I and a lot of other people do.
The difference with me is that I seem to have a need to see these movies for myself, even after other people warn me how awful they are.
I do the same thing, no matter how bad reviews are I still need to see the horrors myself.
I've found through the years that I have unusual tastes when it comes to entertainment, and a lot of the popular 'classics' are movies I don't like at all.
That, coupled with the fact that the critic's reviews (not the Nostalgia Critic or Your Nostalgia Chick, though) often pooh - poohed movies that I really enjoy helped me to realize that just because they say it's bad doesn't mean it is absolutely.
I like a lot of movies that critics say are bad, and in fact I really enjoy bad movies for the most part - weird as it seems - I like Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, Super Mario Bros. and all of those once in a while.
I place them in the same category as Kung - Fu movies.
Sometimes they're so bad it makes them good.
Perhaps it's because I'm not a nit - picker when it comes to the details of the shows, but Uwe Boll's shows are hard not to nit - pick, I find, due to the fact that he has the technology to follow the original storylines and settings but seems to refuse to do so.
The games he adapts to film aren't 8 - bit nintendo games, either.
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he makes such bad movies because of a german loop hole where if his movies don't profit, he makes money.
I remember hearing the same thing, and I wonder how he pulled the same scam more than once.
Not that it's a real 'scam' in the classic sense but really, if you were that body paying out money to a failed film maker such as Uwe, wouldn't you eventually question allowing him to do it again?
I think I would say:
'Sorry mister, your last projects were failures and it's starting to look like you do it deliberately to take advantage of this loophole.
No more money for you.'
I believe we've discussed this here before but I can't find the topic. Either way it seems like you guys haven't heard of the petition. Stop Dr. Uwe Boll Petition
It's got 352,059 signatures and growing. Not that it really matters and it won't change anything but it's a start.
I believe we've discussed this here before but I can't find the topic. Either way it seems like you guys haven't heard of the petition. Stop Dr. Uwe Boll Petition
It's got 352,059 signatures and growing. Not that it really matters and it won't change anything but it's a start.
I agree. Still, I hate Boll's efforts as a director. He'd have ruined a movie like Tomb Raider and made it a true flop in the sense of the word. I am so glad he wasn't behind that movie.
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