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Uwe Boll Spills His Guts
Kimi writes "Love him or hate him, it's always entertaining to read about Uwe Boll, especially with his latest movie Bloodrayne due to be released shortly. 1UP has an interview with the man himself to find out just what he is up to." From the article: "Let's drop the bombshell before we move on: Rumors were flying this summer that Boll had picked up the rights to the controversial first-person-shooter Postal franchise, but developer Running With Scissors quickly debunked the speculation. In talking with Boll, we asked him about his interest in Postal and - lo and behold - were told he's currently in negotiations for the rights to the series, and expects to start shooting Postal sometime next year. Additionally, he'll be writing the script hand-in-hand with the game designers, a first for him and video game movies. It should be interesting to see how Boll handles a game whose gameplay revolves around pure shock value." Good to see we can expect more quality cinema in the future.
Uwe Boll might be the world's greatest misunderstood filmmaking genius.
Oh, now I remember!
Simply THE WORST excuse for an actress was plain to see in Alone in the Dark. I never have been so amazed at poor acting that made it into a big budget film. Thank God even Uwe had the stones to say it was one of the worst performances ever in his interview. I just can't agree with him on his skills or the "quality" of his movies.
Alone in the Dark was abysmal, yet he continually tries to stick up fo rit and claim it was poorly promoted. Sorry, promotion was the least of your concerns here.
He is unappologetic and filled with excuses for his work. I found the interview to be a wash and did nothing in my eyes to help his case.
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I was hoping he committed harakiri and literally spilled his guts. I don't think I'm alone with that sentiment.
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Good to see we can expect more quality cinema in the future.
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So the movie industry has decided to finally collaborate with the video game industry so as to not destroy the feel of the game... With Postal?
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Take a quick peak at the above and check out the upcoming releases for Uwe Boll. He has 6, yes 6, movies coming out in the next year or 2 (seven if you count the already released abomination "Alone in the Dark"). It doesn't take Steven Spielberg to figure out that if you direct 6 movies in 1.5 years, you're not exactly putting your heart into each project. Studios are simply just giving in every time they liscence a video game intellectual property and letting Boll churn out another putrid pile. The most surprising of these being Dungeon Siege and its relatively amazing cast. He has actual actors like Ray Liotta, and Leelee Sobieski, and I still doubt this movie with be watchable unless you are on at least a moderate amount of drugs. Movies such as these are supposed to cater to the tastes of our cultural niche and yet all they do is frustrate us by ruining that which we hold sacred.
Let us all just pray that Uwe Boll and the Halo movie project stay as far as from each other as humanly possible.
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Ten minutes aho I didn't know how this man was, so I checked it and this is the result: it looks like he is a german film director somewhat specialized in games-based movies.
His latest seems to be Alone in the dark (scoring an incredibly low 2.2 out of 10)... it has to be real crap to score that low, it's very strange for a movie to be under the 5 in imdb!
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I don't care much for pure action movies at all, so I'm not too familiair with Uwe's but reading this, and other, interviews, I get a certain image of what kind of person he is:
1) Be genuinly loves movies and loves to make movies. He truely wants to make good movies.
2) He has no emotions.
Why statement #2? From the article:
I think the only weak part in Alone in the Dark is maybe Tara Reid's acting. The action is good, the creature is good, and it moves fast-forward and is what a video game based movie should be.
No. A video game based movie, like any movie, should have a story. Whether there is any action, any creature or what the pace should be, is completely irrelevant. Only when the story requires such elements does the movie require them.
I don't see that [Alone in the Dark] is less quality as Aliens vs. Predator
Aliens vs. Predators was an incredibly shallow and boring movie. I consider AvsP to be one of the worst movies ever made since it simply has no depth and barely a story.
Postal could be a movie that's like Falling Down but more as a satire, more as a thing where you can actually laugh about it also.
Though mostly subtle, Falling Down is a satire, it is a satire of society. I fear Uwe does not understand "subtle".
And... he's doing a phone interview whilst in the middle of shooting scenes... WTF???
He also talks a lot about money. Earning hard cash on your product is a good thing, but he seems to be judging his movies on how much profit they make and blames marketing for any lack of such. This seems like an awefully bleak view of reality and lacking completely of artistic aspirations.
I really get the (frightening) impression that Uwe Boll defines a "good movie" as "lots of action" and other objective terms whereas a movie, like any story, is 99.9% emotion.
It would seems he talks about things like depth of the characters in his upcomming Bloodrayne movie, lets just hope he's not talking about how deep the bullets can penetrate.
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How does this man keep getting work?
Don't these people see the anger from the gaming community when he is attached to a movie, and how ALL OF HIS ATTEMPTS AT CREATING A GOOD VIDEO GAME MOVIE HAVE FAILED?
On a side note, I'm sure all video game players who have seen one of his shitty movies would be GLAD to assist in the spilling of Mr. Boll's guts.
I read a report written about him by some writers that worked with him on one of his other shit-tacular video game movies, and they said that he took their script that followed the game settings pretty close, decided it needed to be on an island. Decided that it needed to have sexy kids, decided that it needed to be faster paced, and he ripped the story out and fired the writers so he could finish writing the script himself.
He doesn't understand what makes good movies good. He thinks that fast paced action and hot chicks make good movies.
Maybe when he is shunned by the movie community, he can be a programming director at G4.
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I agree with what you are saying. Part of what made silent hill more creepy was that you were all alone, usually in the dark or fog. I think Silent Hill 2 would definately translate the best into a movie, but they would probably throw in a constant side kick, at worst, a comic relief side kick...
..and expects to start shooting Postal sometime next year...
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Someone worked hard to get that sentance into FTA.
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I thought he actually spilled his guts...
Alone in the Dark was an adventure game with some action sequences. right?
Then why did they make an action movie?
Past Performance is no indication of future success. But if Past Performances are all FLOPS, this is some indication of the likleyhood of future FLOPS.
Lets seee...It was Bad Marketing, It was Tara Reid, It was unrealistic expectations of hardcore gamers, No it was the Game Publisher who couldn't make a sequel to generate buzz. No Uwe, it was terrible moviemaking. As director thats all you man. If your actors suck you try to bring out a good performance or fire them, If the script sucks you hire a rewrite hack (not adlib the whole movie.), If the expectations are high, you press to live up to them or temper them with preRelease interviews and previews.
Some directors have what is called Artistic Integrety. That's where they say to the studio, sure I'll make this movie with this budget, BUT, I'm making this movie MY way. If they don't like the way its going, they walk rather than release crap. Then someone at the studio hires you to say action for the rest of the film.
You will never see UWE BOLL's name on the marquis, ala Steven Speilberg's AI, Close Encounters, ad nauseum. Know why, Cuz UWE couldn't make a good movie given all the footage from the GodFather, Apocalypse Now, or Gone with the Wind.
It takes a vision of the movie before you start filming to make a good movie, It also helps if you have a story, some characters and a good director. So Far your 0 for 3.
It's OK Mr Boll, We need directors with no integrity to work at places like Skinemax, SciFi and USA. I will continue to watch you demolish every good franchise we gamers enjoy on DVD. I will also continue to try and convince Game Developers to insert a no UWE BOLL rider in their movie deals. Just stay the hell away from the HALO set.
I wonder, when people ask your ex-girlfriend "how's your ex, the director?" Does she reply "Fuck UWE!" ?
Just thinking out loud.
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I think this guy is the new Ed Wood. Makes movies cheaply, and they are all hated or ignored while he's alive. But a couple of decades after he dies, one of his movies will "win" a Worst Movie of All Time award, and sudennly Uwe Boll is a cult director, his movies will be re-released and make a lot of money, and Tim Burton's grandson will do a movie about his life.
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For an interesting perspective on the esteemed Mr. Boll and the way he operates, check out this report:
http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2649
As someone who has worked in the film industry, this story just rings entirely too true.
Thankfully Dr. Boll-o-shit has absolutely nothing to do with the Silent Hill movie. I can't remember who is directing it but from what I saw of the filming it looks like it may be a pretty decent conversion.
I think we should actually be seeing a trailer relatively soon.
Near as I can figure, Uwe Boll is a master of maniupulating the German tax code or he has some "Producers" style scam going where he has to make the worst movie possible. (Okay I know he suppossedly makes a profit on DVD sales).
Let me explain something to you:
Do you know why video games, TV shows and novels get turned into such terrible movies?
It's because the film industry wants to punish you for spending your time and money on video games, TV shows and novels.
This really is once instance where it's not too hard to vote with your wallet. Frankly I don't want to see a single "Bloodrayne was really bad" comment on Slashdot. I want to see, "Oh, I don't know if it was any good or not - I don't watch Uwe Boll movies."
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From TFA "Like, there are some hardcore fans who you never can satisfy because they played that game over and over again and they have their own movie in their head, so no matter what you do, they don't like it," he says.
You know, I can agree with him on that statement.
However, it would have been nice if at one point during the film "Alone in the dark," somebody actually would have been Alone, and maybe even in the dark.
I'm just saying.
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