Uwe Boll Smash!

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.'"

Comments

Finally

[FidelCatsro]

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 .

Happy post-Valentine's!

[RyoShin]

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.

Re:Happy post-Valentine's!

[Kozar_The_Malignant]

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

"You won't have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore." -- Richard Nixon speaking to reporters after losing the 1962 California Governor's race to Pat Brown. This is often considered to be the first lie of Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign.

Re:10 times better?

[Ekarderif]

Ten times zero is still zero...

A Day in the Life of Zonk & Taco

[eldavojohn]

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 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 and runs the story*

Zonk: There! That should cheer you up! Just sit back and laugh as the replies roll in.

Whatever you say Mr Boll

[vertinox]

"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.

To put it another way...

[djSpinMonkey]

"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 burgeoning field of arithmetic

[The-Bus]

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.