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sparkthatbled ([info]sparkthatbled) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
@ 2008-01-27 03:37:00
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Current mood:*thud*

Uwe Boll: Don't Blame Me, Blame The Games!
I've seen this on Kotaku recently, one of the few gaming blogs that I read regularly, and I just had to post here about it a bit.

During a recent Fox News interview, Uwe Boll claims that the reason that gamers hate his movies isn't at all his fault, but that of the games that he adapts:

"A lot of video games have no story. I did the movie House of the Dead and got bashed and I said, what were you expecting, Schindler's List? I showed zombies chasing people and this is basically what the movie delivers. I don't know what they were expecting if you make a movie based on an ego shooter where you kill ninety minutes of people non-stop."

Pretty quickly it gets picked up by Joystiq and Kotaku, and the comments are, needless to say, not very pleasant.


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[info]elektra3
2008-01-27 06:11 am UTC (link)
I did the movie House of the Dead and got bashed and I said, what were you expecting, Schindler's List?

Does that count as Godwin's Law?

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[info]photosinensis
2008-01-27 07:01 am UTC (link)
Yes. Yes it does.

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(no subject) - [info]dragonfangirl, 2008-01-27 01:04 pm UTC
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[info]shahrizai
2008-01-27 06:39 am UTC (link)
For almost any other director, I'd say 'pick better games then!', but this *is* Uwe Boll we're talking about.

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[info]reeve
2008-01-28 01:34 am UTC (link)
Thank goodness he doesn't pick better games!

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(no subject) - [info]rennyn_alerothi, 2008-01-28 03:28 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]mmanurere, 2008-01-29 07:34 am UTC

[info]platedlizard
2008-01-27 06:43 am UTC (link)
For some mysterious reason Spring Time for Hitler (and Germany) always starts playing on a loop in my head whenever I see the name Uwe Boll. Why is that, I wonder? Oh, wait...

*goes rent The Producers*

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[info]cleolinda
2008-01-27 10:24 am UTC (link)
Heeeee, me too.

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[info]miss_padfoot
2008-01-27 11:25 am UTC (link)
Wow, that explains so much.

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[info]mistressrenet
2008-01-27 04:36 pm UTC (link)
It's always exciting when a man is made of even more fail than you'd realized.

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(no subject) - [info]sparkthatbled, 2008-01-27 07:37 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]soupspooks, 2008-01-27 10:46 pm UTC

[info]visp
2008-01-27 06:54 am UTC (link)
Me, I loved BloodRayne. It was so utterly crappy it was hilarious.

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(no subject) - [info]makeshyft, 2008-01-27 07:07 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]visp, 2008-01-27 07:26 am UTC
Master and Student?
[info]anarchicq
2008-01-27 07:16 am UTC (link)
I just realized something TERRIFYING!

Uwe Boll looks frighteningly similar to Rob Lefeild

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Re: Master and Student? - [info]rennyn_alerothi, 2008-01-27 07:42 am UTC
Re: Master and Student? - [info]elektra3, 2008-01-27 07:55 am UTC
Re: Master and Student? - [info]rennyn_alerothi, 2008-01-27 08:00 am UTC
Re: Master and Student? - [info]vzg, 2008-01-27 08:59 am UTC

[info]rennyn_alerothi
2008-01-27 07:42 am UTC (link)
Wow. I guess Uwe Boll is going to have to beat up everyone now.

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(no subject) - [info]photosinensis, 2008-01-27 06:17 pm UTC
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(no subject) - [info]photosinensis, 2008-01-28 12:34 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]aewgliriel, 2008-01-28 02:51 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]dark_puck, 2008-01-28 06:33 pm UTC

[info]seca
2008-01-27 09:36 am UTC (link)
And yet that just begs to question, if he thinks so poorly of the games why does he direct movie adaptions of them? I mean I'm sure he can make money directing other pointless films that don't have video game origins.

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(no subject) - [info]gloria_mundi, 2008-01-27 10:20 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]criticalcricket, 2008-01-27 10:41 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]brennalarose, 2008-01-27 06:11 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]photosinensis, 2008-01-27 06:18 pm UTC
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(no subject) - [info]photosinensis, 2008-01-27 10:27 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]brennalarose, 2008-01-27 10:42 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]rennyn_alerothi, 2008-01-28 01:42 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]brennalarose, 2008-01-28 02:31 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]puipui, 2008-01-28 07:27 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]lysana, 2008-01-28 09:47 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]puipui, 2008-01-28 09:56 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]spearcarrier, 2008-01-29 12:05 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]brennalarose, 2008-01-29 01:57 pm UTC
edited to fix errors. - [info]rennyn_alerothi, 2008-01-28 01:40 am UTC
(no subject) - dracothelizard, 2008-01-27 02:40 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]sparkthatbled, 2008-01-27 03:05 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mmanurere, 2008-01-27 04:27 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]feenix, 2008-01-27 09:22 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]sparkthatbled, 2008-01-28 12:21 am UTC
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[info]radiotrash
2008-01-27 10:24 am UTC (link)
I just wonder how he gets these semi well known actors to work for him? Although, it might be part of his ploy because I am almost, almost tempted to go see that Dungeon Siege movie just so I can star at Jason Statham for an hour or so.

But then I remembered we own Snatch.

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(no subject) - [info]radiotrash, 2008-01-27 10:24 am UTC
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[info]gusty
2008-01-27 01:58 pm UTC (link)
A lot of video games have no story.

Uwe's next attempt will be 'Tetris: The BLOCKENING'.

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(no subject) - [info]photosinensis, 2008-01-27 06:21 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]eilan, 2008-01-27 09:17 pm UTC
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(no subject) - [info]seiberwing, 2008-01-27 07:38 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]rosehiptea, 2008-01-27 10:30 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]seiberwing, 2008-01-27 10:35 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mistal, 2008-01-28 07:01 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]rosehiptea, 2008-01-27 08:52 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]iris, 2008-01-27 09:24 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]cmdr_zoom, 2008-01-27 09:45 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]reeve, 2008-01-28 01:36 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]sarcastic_elf, 2008-01-28 05:43 pm UTC

(Anonymous)
2008-01-27 02:01 pm UTC (link)
"A lot of video games have no story"

So you create them. That's what a moviemaker is supposed to do. Create stories. Even if they are for video-game adaptations.

"I showed zombies chasing people and this is basically what the movie delivers"

Wrong. House of Dead follows a storyline. And if this guy had bothered to play the game, he'd know.

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(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2008-01-27 02:47 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]sparkthatbled, 2008-01-27 03:42 pm UTC
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(no subject) - [info]rosehiptea, 2008-01-27 10:33 pm UTC
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(Anonymous)
2008-01-27 02:12 pm UTC (link)
Oh, Uwe Boll. You can even provoke Hideo Kojima into frothing rage. What do you think the fanboys think of you? Really, now.

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(no subject) - [info]brennalarose, 2008-01-27 06:12 pm UTC

[info]annaham
2008-01-27 10:08 pm UTC (link)
I don't know what they were expecting if you make a movie based on an ego shooter where you kill ninety minutes of people non-stop.

What, pray tell, does "kill[ing] ninety minutes of people" entail?

Y HALLO THAR UNINTENTIONALLY HILARIOUS DANGLING MODIFIERS.

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(no subject) - [info]magistera, 2008-01-27 11:00 pm UTC
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[info]wal_lace
2008-01-28 12:38 am UTC (link)
I rather think that when you cast Tara Reid as a scientist of any description you lose any claim on creative licence.

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(no subject) - [info]perletwo, 2008-01-28 08:29 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]major_fischer, 2008-01-28 10:45 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]perletwo, 2008-01-28 10:57 pm UTC
I think this sums it all up
[info]vergilsparda
2008-01-28 01:35 am UTC (link)
"Bad workers always blame their tools."

The Shin Megami Tensei series would like to have a word with Boll.

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[info]morwyn
2008-01-28 01:41 am UTC (link)
I actually got drunk and paid money (on purpose!) to see In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale. I'm kind of ashamed of this. Although it was kind of lulzy when Burt Reynolds sent out his ninja attack squad.

I think this article is best at capturing the nonsensicalness of Uwe Boll. Major capslock of rage. It's a "behind the scenes" look from one of the original writers for Alone in the Dark. (I realize this doesn't pertain to the current wank but it's key to understanding his lack of thought processes.)

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(no subject) - [info]phasmas, 2008-01-28 03:22 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]dragonfangirl, 2008-01-28 08:54 pm UTC
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[info]trinity_destler
2008-01-28 07:11 pm UTC (link)
I didn't realize that minutes were a unit of people. Learn something new every day.

I think I have escaped a truly singular experience in never seeing a Uwe Boll "film".

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[info]dragonfangirl
2008-01-28 08:50 pm UTC (link)
So wait... what this comes down to is that Uwe Boll is actually an anti-games crusader in disguise, and his movies are just a hugely expensive vanity project to get people to hate the games?

*scratches head*

Sad thing is, I think that makes more sense. :\

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(no subject) - [info]lysana, 2008-01-28 09:49 pm UTC

(Anonymous)
2008-01-28 10:04 pm UTC (link)
Oh, Uwe Boll. If he does end up making that Legacy of Kain movie, I'm getting it off the internet and not wasting a penny of mine on it.

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(Anonymous)
2008-01-31 05:56 pm UTC (link)
I kind of liked House of the Dead. But that was probably because Jurgen Prochnow was in it and I can watch him in anything. I loves me some Jurgen.

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[info]saintedsin
2008-02-05 01:41 am UTC (link)
The music playing in the theater before the previews was more interesting than House of the Dead. In fact, my friend and I were the only people in the theater the night the movie came out.

After the first five minutes, my friend wanted to leave. I refused. I wasn't going until every last one of those fuckers were dead.

I want those hours of my life back.

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