The Washington Post story on the inevitability of video game movie sucktitude ran today. I'm very proud of the fact that I was able to introduce reporter Jose Antonio Vargas to the master of shit-movies himself, Uwe Boll.

At the heart of this competitive marriage is this question: How do you successfully turn an interactive experience (playing an Xbox game) into a passive one (watching a movie version of an Xbox game)? For whatever reasons, the recent crop of video game movies — including 2003's "House of the Dead" and this year's "Alone in the Dark," both helmed by the German director Uwe Boll — have consistently disappointed gamers. Someone even started a Web site called Uwebollsucks.com. Is it for real? A joke? No one is sure.

"Whether or not that site is for real, there's a huge amount of animosity for this guy — he represents everything that's bad about video game movies," says Brian Crecente, senior editor of Kotaku.com, the video game equivalent of the snarky and very opinionated Gawker.com, which owns it.

And another Boll hater is born.

Doom Takes a Shot at the Gamers [Washington Post]

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