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Kojima Dismisses Boll As MGS Director
Joystiq has a post which caused thousands of people to raise their eyes heavenward in thanks. Uwe Boll will never direct a Metal Gear Solid film. From the article, which relays information from Kojima's ongoing podcast series: "Host Ryan Payton delivers a message from Kojima-san dispelling recent 'nasty rumors' that Uwe Boll is being considered to direct an upcoming Metal Gear Solid movie. Says Kojima: 'Absolutely not! I don't know why Uwe Boll is even talking about this kind of thing. We've never talked to him. It's impossible that we'd ever do a movie with him.'"
... who argued that video and computer games could not possibly rise to the level of an art form?
If so, what does he care who directs a movie based on his game? That's quite an affectation on Kojima-san's part, isn't it?
Dahlmann tightly grips the knife, which he may have no idea how to use, and steps out into the plain.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317676/
from that page - 2.1/10 (6,596 votes). Enough said!
{i did a little more research. his average rating is under 3! lmao}
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Now if everyone else would take heed. Although Resident Evil and 2 wasn't bad... I still won't forgive him over Doom.
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Uwe Boll did not direct any of those movies.
I'd say it's a given now.
"Impossible" is a good word. He probably means what he said.
If, on the other hand, he'd said, "We have no plans," then we'd know to prepare ourselves for yet more Boll-puckey.
...was 'Schindler's List'. What a turkey that was.
Respect the PhD.
He directed the James Bond movie "Die Another Day".
How much worse could he be?
...Kojima's love for the film medium?
Guys...the only person who is ever going to direct the movie version of a Kojima game is Kojima himself. It is common lore that Kojima went into game development as some strange half cocked plan to land a job in film production. Even if we discount that, Kojima's passion for the film medium can be seen in the often blatant film references he pours into every game title he has ever worked on (along with the long CG sequences he pumps into said titles).
Boll isn't even touching a wet napkin with the words "Metal Gear movie" sloppily doodled on it, handed to him by a drunk film executive before Kojima is pointing a camera at a live action snake.
Metal Gear Solid's cut scenes ae ridiculously stupid. Low-intellect generic stuff. Any movie actually based on such tripe is going to suck - think about those shitty Final Fantasy movies, which were faithful to the cut scenes from the series.
a large amount of their inspiration for The Matrix movies (from first to last) from the Ghost in the Shell manga/movies/show - that little bit of info seems to pop up in a large number of GITS sites and the Wikipedia Ghost in the Shell, down in the "Impact and Influence" section of the Wikipedia article.
Snakes from a game!
Kojima actually studied to filmmaking before he got into games. Or he at least wanted to be one. I forget the exact details, but I know for a fact that he pursued film before game making. The influence can certainly be seen in his games.
Wow, you really got modded down for that. I'm not sure if you're serious, but actually, I agree. No! Wait! Before you mod me down, please read on.
Yes, his movies are crapfests. Bad, bad, bad movies. However, I also find them quite entertaining. Alone in the Dark, for example, had pretty good creature designs, some nice action scenes and even a few scares. Sure, some actors were mis-cast, the story, uhm, didn't explain a lot of the stuff happening (but I found the parts which were explained to be quite interesting, even though they were ripped off from Lincoln/Child novels), and so on, but the movie didn't bore me at all.
Now, compare this to some other recent Hollywood disasters like Catwoman or Electra. Those were not only bad, they were also extremely boring. So Alone in the Dark has neither Jeniffer Garner nor Halle Berry, but apart from that, I found Alone in the Dark to be a whole lot less boring than either Catwoman or Electra.
Yeah, Boll sucks, but his movies are at least entertaining, which is more than you can say for a lot of movies which get higher ratings on IMDB and aren't perpetually reviled.
He's also making a movie out of Dungeon Siege starring none other than that bald guy from The Transporter. I'm sure it will be a horrible movie that not only manages to completely ignore the better parts of the game, but also completely rip off Lord of the Rings.
Now, I can't be entirely certain of this, chiefly because I can't remember where I heard it, but supposedly Boll gets to keep making movies because the studios know that he'll produce a loss for them. Why on earth they want a loss is beyond me, but apparently they do.
Having said that, do you think it might be possible to get someone to make a good movie out of a game?