ehh...im over it. he hasnt really done anything wrong.
look at his movies then look at the source material..shit movies from shit games.
at least house of the dead was worth a giggle or 2 and house of the dead 2 has emanuelle vaugier
wenis said:
look at his movies then look at the source material..shit movies from shit games.
the games he's made movies of have been perfectly enjoyable. certainly not classics that will be enjoyed by generations to come, but solid entertainment.
Boll's movies degrade the intellectual property those games are based off of, because when people think of those IPs, now, they won't just think of the enjoyable game that those IPs came from--they'll think of the horrendous, unenjoyable movie that Boll shat out. by degrading these IPs in this manner, he's made it less likely that these IPs will be used for future games, and he's made damn certain that these IPs will never be used for anything resembling an enjoyable movie.
Pretty much. To paraphrase another writer on Boll, there's two schools of thought about Boll films. One school of thought is that he's a better director than Hitchcock, Ford, Scorcese, and Kurosawa at once. This school of thought is advocted by one Uwe Boll. Everyone else subscribes to the second school of thought, which is that he's a primary reason why people like Roger Ebert don't think video games are or can be art, and therefore deserve to be treated with mockery and suspicion.
God, what he did to Postal is a complete travesty. Postal 2 was such a great game as it was, then Uwe comes along and decides it needs to be even more "edgy"
Boll is to video games what Dubya is to Peace in the Middle East.
wenis said:
look at his movies then look at the source material..shit movies from shit games.
the games he's made movies of have been perfectly enjoyable. certainly not classics that will be enjoyed by generations to come, but solid entertainment.
Boll's movies degrade the intellectual property those games are based off of, because when people think of those IPs, now, they won't just think of the enjoyable game that those IPs came from--they'll think of the horrendous, unenjoyable movie that Boll shat out. by degrading these IPs in this manner, he's made it less likely that these IPs will be used for future games, and he's made damn certain that these IPs will never be used for anything resembling an enjoyable movie.
I dont think with these kinds of numbers:
House of the Dead: Box Office: $10,199,354
Alone in the Dark: $8,191,971
Blood Rayne: $3,591,980
Dungeon Seige: $10.3 million worldwide (w/ 60mill budget)
Postal: $142,761 (18mill budget)
people are not going to be remembering any of these films. As for tarnishing the games most of these games do it to themselves anytime anyone speaks of them. I would certainly hope that no one in their right mind would even consider making sequels to mostly abominations of games. Granted alone in the dark does have great history, but as we can see now atari is completely incapable of creating anything more than an average game for what used to be a good franchise. movie or no movie these games didn't have a shot to be anything more than B-grade games worth 30min of enjoyment.
vanillaKnight said:
Watch him write and direct Batman Begins 3, Just watch you'll see I'll show ya!
i will stab you so many times.
wenis said:
As for tarnishing the games most of these games do it to themselves anytime anyone speaks of them. I would certainly hope that no one in their right mind would even consider making sequels to mostly abominations of games.
House of the Dead and Alone in the Dark each have three sequels, Bloodrayne has two, and Dungeon Siege and Postal both have one, plus expansions. no, these are not ground-breaking games, but whether you personally enjoy them or not, they are quite popular and quite valuable as IPs--or were, until Boll shat on them.
Boll's secondary mutant power (his primary one being the ability to devolve veteran film stars into stilted first-year wannabes) is to produce big-money investors from every crack and crevice of his own body. the man sweats financial backing, i swear to god. if he used his power for good--if he produced movies, including hiring a solid director--he would be the most celebrated man in video game history.
BigPygg
Troy, AL
March 2007
JUL 09, 2008 09:02 PM