How would you respond?

Whats a Uwe Boll?

i wouldn't. That guy needs to be shunned from society. Maybe we could send him off to live with the ferals.

Agreed. /thread and all that.

I don' know who Uwe Boll is but I just watched "I Am Legend" with Will Smith last night and it was amazingly much like Fallout 3. Maybe even more so than "A Boy and His Dog". I highly recommend "I Am Legend" to any Fallout 3 fan but not to Fallout 1 & 2 fans because the movie is kinda like 3-D.

I quite enjoyed that movie as well. It's in my "top 5" vampire movies of all time.

watch the omega man, which is an earlier version of i am legend made in the 60's or 70's. It is very kitschy but still pretty enjoyable and has a fallout type feel to it.

As a rule, I feel that video games really ought not ever be made into a movie. An earlier thread kicked around the idea of a miniseries, which I'm perfectly fine with, but I think it'd be difficult to capture something as large as most video games in 120 some odd minutes.

Now as for Uwe...

Yes, his movies are terrible. There is very rarely anything even remotely satisfying about any of his celluloid abortions. That being said, I really feel that most of the video games he decided to transfer to film were bad to begin with. Right off the top of my head I'm thinking of Dungeon Siege, Blood Rayne, and House of the Dead, two games which I think most honest gamers will admit are fun but are certainly not intellectually stimulating or even particularly well developed. Even Far Cry and Postal fit the bill as being relatively vapid FPS nonsense.

In all honesty, Boll may be a bad director, but at the same time he is working with bad material to begin with.

That is true, and it shows just how bad every decision he makes is. I agree with you that video games should not be made into films. The mortal kombat films are proof. Maybe later down the line some good ones will get made. Look how long it took for some o.k. movies based on comic books took to hit the screens.

Silent Hill

Ah, Uwe Boll.

I just can't figure that guy out. I kinda think he's doing it on purpouse, maybe he wants to be known as the "King of Trash"? Who knows. Maybe he's just an idiot

Must we speak of this man? Simply talking about him feeds his ever growing need to create insufferable adaptions of lousy video game plots.

The only part in any type of Fallout movie/film/miniseries/etc Uwe Boll should play is as a feral ghoul killed within the first 5 minutes.

Uwe seems to get a bad rap, he's worked on some pretty terrible movies I won't disagree there but is it really his fault they were crap or did they just the wrong game to make a movie from?

Bloodrayne, Postal, Farcry, all pretty weak in the storyline department by video game standards, they were never going to stand up as feature films. House of the Dead I quite enjoyed, especially the "character select" sequence right before the big battle. The game didn't take itself seriously in the slightest and the film captured that concept brilliantly, in some circumstances two wrongs do indeed make a right. Alone in the Dark could have been a great movie if it were a little closer to the original games (which had great stories) as opposed to the modern ones, but then the modern AitD games never were very successful.

Maybe we'll see a decent game to movie conversion in the future, but if Max Payne and Hitman are anything to go by we're going to be waiting a while. The problem with making a video game movie is that the all the games that would make great movies, those that have a cinematic storyline like Uncharted: Drakes Fortune and the last two Tomb Raider games, is that we've already seen them, we know the story and film makers aren't interested in 1:1 translations from the games console to the movie screen.

Like if Bethesda made a Fallout game.

A natural disaster

Harsh, but lol-worthy.

The prelude to DeadSpace was excellent. I guess it doesn't count or something. I also think people take Uwe (oo-vuh) Boll too seriously...even perhaps himself. His films are campy and fun at times.... the fact that veteran actors and actresses come off so abysmally in them isn't exactly his fault. A director can guide and advise...but the acting is up to the actors. It isn't the coach's fault if I strike out or miss the basket.

I dare say some of the dialogue he has written is leaps and bounds better than the Star Wars prequel trilogy's entire scripts.... but the actors in those movies (aside from the young Anakin, my God!) did much better than anyone that has ever been in a Uwe boll flick.

Video games into movies could do great if they ever cared to actually extend the stories in the games rather than simply telling the story I already played through. Or drastically deviating from the plot, or focusing only on the props and the scenery.

"Escape From City 17" is a good example of this. The "movie" was made by fans but never intended to be a feature. They were testing some techniques. So yeah the acting isn't hollywood quality... but they did something others said couldn't be done. They took the story of Half Life, which many said could NOT be made into a movie due to Gordon's lack of speech and other factors.... and made me think outside of the experiences I had in the game to what life might have been like for the resistance members and regular folks. I am gleefully awaiting the follow-ups to the first part.

I wouldnt compain about Uwe doing a Fallout film as long as it has a Rush song in the soundtrack, Vin Diesel, Jon Stewart, and a guy in a U-Haul truck.:gun:


speakig of video game movies, Silent Hill is one of the greatest movies ever. of couse Uwe had nothing to do with it so that helped.

Really? It was ick beyond ick. Compared to the Omega Man and the novel it has nothing on it. Mass plotholes, cheesy CGI and a horrible ending (both endings)

I'm waiting for his take on Tetris

Word. Except. I'd probably check out the movie a lot sooner...

They shouldn't make a movie out of a game out of a a 'sandbox-rpg' why I'f you ask me, not by Uwe, Peter Jackson, George Lucas or whomever ....

However, A HBO series of two seasons about the events leading to the Great War might be intresting if you ask me.

It's entirely his fault. Look at Resident Evil, the first two turned out to be extremely good movies. Doom wouldn't have been horrendous if they hadn't tried making an FPS shot. Mortal Kombat was passing well. Ewe's movies are rapid ripoff's with little attention paid to detail or anything else, "Let's show off the best parts of the game in a movie!".

I mean Alone in the Dark had potential, alot of it, and he screwed it up horribly.

Or to put it another way...

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0093051/



How much effort is he really putting into anything when he's got 7 films in the works at the same time? Other directors handle, at most, 2 films at once. Ewe's working on 7 in the span of 2 years. If you've got 24 months, and 7 films, you're devoting 3.x months to each film.

It gets worse when you add in Director...



9 films in 2 years? C'mon. That's like 2 and a half months of time for each. That's less time than a single college semester, college students are putting more time into their student films than this guy is putting into "professional" ones!

So yeah, I'd say it's entirely his fault. He's trying to work under 1950's B-movie rules where you just push 'em out as quick as you can without worrying about quality.

I saw BloodRayne 1 and I'll never see any of the others. Horrible... horrible movie.