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Uwe Boll calls it quits...
Posted: 2006-02-17 12:56am
by Dennis Toy
VICTORY IS OURS!!
Eurogamer has a lengthy article up about Uwe Boll, known to gamers worldwide as the biggest champion for movies based on videogames. Unfortunately, most gamers think Boll's movies fail to live up to their full potential. In the Eurogamer article, Boll has some choice words for them: "The dangerous thing right now is that a lot of people bash me without thinking about the movies. It's fashionable to hit on Uwe Boll, and this is what I don't get. And I don't get why this comes so harshly from the games press."
It's a great interview, with Boll's trademark abrasive openness going full bore. But Boll hinted that he may be getting out of the videogame-film game: "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."
Re: Uwe Boll calls it quits...
Posted: 2006-02-17 01:02am
by Brother-Captain Gaius
"The dangerous thing right now is that a lot of people bash me without thinking about the movies. It's fashionable to hit on Uwe Boll, and this is what I don't get. And I don't get why this comes so harshly from the games press."
Maybe it's because your movies suck balls. Donkey balls. Elephant-sized donkey balls. And then some.
Re: Uwe Boll calls it quits...
Posted: 2006-02-17 01:10am
by Master of Ossus
Brother-Captain Gaius wrote:"The dangerous thing right now is that a lot of people bash me without thinking about the movies. It's fashionable to hit on Uwe Boll, and this is what I don't get. And I don't get why this comes so harshly from the games press."
Maybe it's because your movies suck balls. Donkey balls. Elephant-sized donkey balls. And then some.
Or maybe it's because your films are disgraces to the wonderful franchises you plunder without regard for artistic expression, thus shaming the entire video gaming community with your pointless, more widely consumed, tripe.
Posted: 2006-02-17 01:21am
by White Haven
Space Marine Dreadnought wrote:DIE! DIE! DIE!
...Ah well, we don't get to see his broken body flung away from a dreadnought's claw, but I'll settle for seeing the fucking toad
Gollum wrote:Leave now, and never come back!
Re: Uwe Boll calls it quits...
Posted: 2006-02-17 01:30am
by Spanky The Dolphin
Master of Ossus wrote:Brother-Captain Gaius wrote:"The dangerous thing right now is that a lot of people bash me without thinking about the movies. It's fashionable to hit on Uwe Boll, and this is what I don't get. And I don't get why this comes so harshly from the games press."
Maybe it's because your movies suck balls. Donkey balls. Elephant-sized donkey balls. And then some.
Or maybe it's because your films are disgraces to the wonderful franchises you plunder without regard for artistic expression, thus shaming the entire video gaming community with your pointless, more widely consumed, tripe.
Actually, it's probably because that German tax loophole has been closed.
Posted: 2006-02-17 01:33am
by Setesh
I'm shocked he has the cojonas to claim his movies are anything but a get rich quick scam, exploiting the german film industrues loopholes to make big bucks on lowgrade movies.
Re: Uwe Boll calls it quits...
Posted: 2006-02-17 02:08am
by Drooling Iguana
Master of Ossus wrote:Brother-Captain Gaius wrote:"The dangerous thing right now is that a lot of people bash me without thinking about the movies. It's fashionable to hit on Uwe Boll, and this is what I don't get. And I don't get why this comes so harshly from the games press."
Maybe it's because your movies suck balls. Donkey balls. Elephant-sized donkey balls. And then some.
Or maybe it's because your films are disgraces to the wonderful franchises you plunder without regard for artistic expression, thus shaming the entire video gaming community with your pointless, more widely consumed, tripe.
Uwe Boll's movies are widely consumed?
Posted: 2006-02-17 02:15am
by Stormin
GU comics had this one up today already. Great news for people who like movies that are not shit!
Posted: 2006-02-17 08:09am
by Lagmonster
And there was much rejoicing.
Posted: 2006-02-17 10:19am
by Ghost Rider
Good, the fucker makes Ed Wood's works look like Oscar winning material.
Posted: 2006-02-17 10:58am
by SAMAS
Lagmonster wrote:And there was much rejoicing.
[deadpan] Yay.
Posted: 2006-02-17 12:27pm
by Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi
I like how the article says how the gamers merely "think Boll's movies fail to live up to their full potential". Either there was sarcasm in that, or it's the understatment of the year so far.
Re: Uwe Boll calls it quits...
Posted: 2006-02-17 01:22pm
by AK_Jedi
Uwe Boll, known to gamers worldwide as the biggest champion for movies based on videogames.
Who the hell wrote this article anyways? Whoever it is hasn't been doing their homework.
Posted: 2006-02-17 01:23pm
by Admiral Valdemar
I am thinking the German gov't is on Boll's list of people he now hates, along with videogamers.
Posted: 2006-02-17 01:34pm
by LongVin
Whats the German tax loophole?
Posted: 2006-02-17 01:40pm
by White Haven
Long, there was a part of German tax law that provided a rather substantial tax break to people who invested in movies that turned into horrible failures. In other words, people gave him money for the express purpose of making the worst possible movies he could. That was closed, and now he's trying to pretend that was never his motivation.
Posted: 2006-02-17 03:38pm
by DPDarkPrimus
Frankly, I'm not suprised he got the Far Cry liscense. Crytek is a German developer, after all.
Posted: 2006-02-17 03:39pm
by Nephtys
White Haven wrote:Long, there was a part of German tax law that provided a rather substantial tax break to people who invested in movies that turned into horrible failures. In other words, people gave him money for the express purpose of making the worst possible movies he could. That was closed, and now he's trying to pretend that was never his motivation.
IE, it's the scheme in 'The Producers' except he constantly got away with it.
How else can you explain making a bloodrayne movie? Bad game, bad movie, 90% of the production expenses still unpaid when the movie left the theaters.
Re: Uwe Boll calls it quits...
Posted: 2006-02-17 03:50pm
by Superman
Brother-Captain Gaius wrote:"The dangerous thing right now is that a lot of people bash me without thinking about the movies. It's fashionable to hit on Uwe Boll, and this is what I don't get. And I don't get why this comes so harshly from the games press."
Maybe it's because your movies suck balls. Donkey balls. Elephant-sized donkey balls. And then some.
When you're right, you're right.
Jee, it's just so fashionable to hate Uwe Boll. It has nothing to do with the fact that his movies like "House of the Dead" are the WORST fucking movies of all time. I seriously felt stupider after watching that movie. I love cheesy horror too, but that was just so incredibly bad that I couldn't find anything about it that was good.
Posted: 2006-02-17 04:02pm
by Crossroads Inc.
Was it true that he actually used footage from a Video game in one of his movies?
Re: Uwe Boll calls it quits...
Posted: 2006-02-17 04:06pm
by Master of Ossus
Drooling Iguana wrote:Uwe Boll's movies are widely consumed?
Believe it or not, yeah they are. They have a much wider market than the video games they're based on.
Posted: 2006-02-17 04:06pm
by Superman
Crossroads Inc. wrote:Was it true that he actually used footage from a Video game in one of his movies?
Yes. In the middle of zombie shooting scenes, sequences of parts of the video game would flash over the film. The flash scenes were taken directly from the arcade game, complete with "insert coin." So, we would watch the group shooting zombies, and then suddenly the movie would switch to scenes from that game (which is a first person shooter). Truely one of the stupidest ideas ever.
Posted: 2006-02-17 04:17pm
by LongVin
ah ok. So I guess Germany was plagued with dozens and dozens of purposely bad movies until that law was repealed.
Posted: 2006-02-17 04:18pm
by LongVin
Crossroads Inc. wrote:Was it true that he actually used footage from a Video game in one of his movies?
In "House of the Dead" he randomly flashed clips from the first arcade game during shoot em up scenes or to transition from one scene to the next.
Posted: 2006-02-17 04:19pm
by Mr Bean
LongVin wrote:ah ok. So I guess Germany was plagued with dozens and dozens of purposely bad movies until that law was repealed.
Pretty much, but Uwe offered his backers such large returns on the money spent they HAD to close it or within twenty years Uwe would have owned Germany.
