Dammit Uwe! If you wont change jobs, then go and focus your horrible movie making skills on books or original movies! Leave the video games to actual people who know what they are doing!

I can see Boll firing back already. Warming up his half ass reasons as to why Dungeon Siege did tank. Like it says, None surprised.

Shame really. I wanted to see this movie. The previews looked great. Ahh well...'ll probably see it anyway since most of the movies I like get reviewed terribly.

Sadly he still got in several movies into pre-production before the loophole was closed, so look forward to more craptastic game movies from Boll. Also, 10,000B.C. looks to be a higher budget form of a Boll movie, awful, just awful.

so how many days till another stupid idiot from hollywood gives him the writes to an other video game movie inturn ruining it?

Wait, what movie are we talking about?

rights*

Suya123, I disagree with your last request. (Leave the video games to actual people who know what they are doing!) NO ONE should be making video game movies--Period. They will never capture the magic of the games and will only tarnish the properties. It is impossible to get the atmosphere, and the build up as the games. Even the best adaption of a video game movie so far, Silent Hill, is still a long shot from what it should of been.

How did he get these decent to good actors signing up for this mess? Don't they know his rep?

I'm gonna have to see it, I'm just a sucker for hilariously bad movies.

But it had Burt Reynolds! Burt Fucking Reynolds! HOW COULD IT POSSIBLY FAIL?!

Currently THREE PERCENT at RottenTomatoes.com. At what point does this hack decide to get a new profession?

@Maximus9: it's called money :P

DVD rentals and sales will still probably make this profitable.

Another round of Boll-Bashing has begun.
Now, that would make a great video game & video game movie.

@baberg: The day it becomes mathematically possible to score a negative rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Doesn't he self-finance some of these movies? He has to run out of money at some point I'd think (hope).

For God's sake, who keeps financing this kook's movies?!? Everything he does tanks horribly and gets extreme backlash from the gaming community.

If it was my job to sell 20 cars a month at a car dealership and I sold only one, I'd probably be fired after the first month. Yet this butthole somehow keeps having game properties and millions of dollars dropped in his lap....

The movie industry astounds me sometimes...

@ConfuciusMax:

Are you kidding? 10,000 BC will rule and the box office numbers will show it. It's in another galaxy compared to Boll's shit. Do some research on it.

Making a video game based movie is tough to do because you are torn between making the movie accurate to the game and having the movie be bad, or making the movie a good movie but having it not resemble the game beyond the title and having everyone say it's a horrible movie because it is not true to Super Mario Bros.

He bashed First Sunday, said it'd be in the top ten for 3 weeks, and said it would get 50% good reviews...

First Sunday finished better with the #2 spot, it didn't make the top ten, and it has 3% on RottenTomatoes. I'd say he made himself look like an idiot, but that might wind up being a complement.

It is not Uwe Boll's fault. It is the man!!

God damn Ice Cube film that sucks must have stole Boll's $$$.

I wouldn't be surprised if he went down as being our generation's Ed Wood.

60 Million? ... So much money wasted. *sigh*

I'm going to have to watch it just to laugh. I wonder if it would appear any better when high...

$8 a ticket? Where do YOU see movies? Regular shows around me usually end up being $9-10 a pop. Which is why I buy DVDs instead.

If I'm paying for my wife and I, a "small" snack, and the gas to get to and from the theater, it becomes a $30+ affair. So F that. DVDs are cheaper by the square inch.

Or something.

I expected nothing less then failure. Of course he is going to find a way and turn this on the consumer saying that we can't appreciate shit and hopefully that will be the final nail on his coffin of VG adaptations.

@SG_Mahonay: My advice: Don't. The only one of Boll's films I've sat through voluntarily was Alone in the Dark on DVD. The movie was so mind-bendingly bad that it literally gave me a headache trying to comprehend how anyone could have thought anything seen in that movie was a good idea.

Then I watched the movie again with Boll's commentary turned on. Listening to him trash his critics and applaud his own ability to rip off, of all movies, The Relic, has convinced me that there is no way that he could possibly be native to our dimension.

Man... This probably is going to go a long way in killing Jason Stathom's budding action star career.

Sure, the "Transporter" movies were brainless, but they were top-shelf action craziness.

Now, after doing something like this, the Hollywood execu-bots are going to wrongly assume, as they are apt to do often, that it's Stathom and his apparent lack of star power that made this a stinker instead of Boll's idiot antics.

This is a black mark to everyone involved, except for Uwe himself. He's so marred already that $3.3 is probably quite an improvement on his net-worth.

Fact: Video game movies suck. I've never seen one of Boll's movies but if they suck even in comparison to other VG movies then may God have mercy on us all.

Heh, after this he'd probably be inspired to make another flick. I can see it now...

Uwe Boll presents: Super Smash Bros., The Movie

@ceilingFANBOY: sponsor me for PolarBearPlunge, link in prof...:
This isn't about him making game movies. Its about him making HORRIBLE movies in general. Every movie he makes bears almost no resemblance to the game he's basing the film on. Bloodrayne was probably the only one that had a character that resembled anything from the game...

He's a hack, he's a horrible director, and he's a dick. What kind of person says (paraphrased) "If you don't like my movies, I'll beat you up"???

Lets wait and see what Boll's excuse for his latest disasterpiece flopping is this time. Not to mention, who he'll attempt to sue.

How does Ray Liotta go from GoodFellas which I watched the other day, to this garbage heap. Let alone Jason Statham who is actually a decent actor especially if you go back and watch Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. And his new movie Revolver looks amazing... It blows my mind that actors get conned into movies that they know are going to be utter garbage. I mean I know LeeLee Sobieski's career has gone down a bit but for pity's sake actors must know that Uwe Boll is the bubonic plague of the movie industry@suya123:

@Saint Anima (PSN = PoeticMassacre): This summer's motion picture event: Pong, the movie. Starring Morgan Freeman as paddle #1.

@GregoriusH: Due to an old tax benefit from Germany he doesn't lose a dime to this flop. Its all paid for courtesy of German tax payers and he's got several more shit-tastic films under the same net. So get ready for more Uwe.

@Ethereal006: A paychecks a paycheck

Oh dear god...no. I just read on Wikipedia that he's planning on doing Legacy of Kain.

I will go cry now.

I always thought that tax loophole was closed. Oh well, it's fun to laugh at someone's career, right?

@Ethereal006: he's still waiting for his honey buisness to take off

@Ethereal006: If I recall correctly, Boll said that his casting method revolves around preparing most every aspect of the movie first, and when shooting is ready to begin, find actors with openings in their schedules ready and willing to blow some time for a quick check. Naturally, you get a lot of actors using this method that pretty much refuse to take the material with any level of seriousness at all (which explains how an academy award winner like Ben Kingsley gets convinced to be in Bloodrayne).

Why can't the German government and German people stop this man. Stop subsidizing this wreckless destruction of gaming properities, Germany. I wish I got a tax write-off everytime I produced some crap.

@Saint Anima (PSN = PoeticMassacre): There's only one humanely possible way to mess up that movie:

James Gandolfini as Mario, Keanu Reeves as Link, and Paris Hilton as Samus, with Tinkerbell as Pikachu.

So how many of the Boll bashers have actually seen the movie, just wondering?

Did anyone NOT see this coming except maybe Uwe? If he honestly thought this movie was better than First Sunday (which I'm not saying is an even decent movie), then I feel bad for him. We should all throw a couple bucks toward his family so they can place him in a facility designed to take care of adults like him with special needs.

Well they've got to be making profit off of these. Otherwise they wouldn't be making them.

@gogators88:
Maybe it's their revenge on the world for WWII?

Haven't and won't read every post above (sorry), but he makes these films for studios to exploit tax writeoff loopholes in certain European countries, right? In other words, the goal IS for them to NOT turn a box office profit, no?

I know I read something about this whole 'strategy' years ago.

@jollydwarf: That kind of explains it. Though someone needs to blacklist this guy to keep him from poisoning our theatres...

And can't he just come up with bad ideas on his own? Why drag game franchises into this mess?

@grumbel:

Do we really need to at this point? He has never, NEVER made a good film. Period.

@K-Squad! (Badass Edition):

Not really. A lot of people donate to stuff like this as a tax write-off. They pitch in a few bucks as a "donation to the arts," and they get a write-off that's bigger than what they donated. At the same time, someone else donates to the fund "expecting" a return. And then, when it flops, they can write it off as a failed business venture, and thus basically get their money back in full tax free (as it was not subject to taxes, being "invested" at the time of accountment.)

Find enough people willing to do one of these two options, you now have $60 million to play with, and in both cases they know it will flop and don't care.

It's money in the bank to them.

Luckily, most of these loopholes have closed, so we are only subject to Uwe's madness for a few more years. Hopefully, the stigma of video game/movie transitions can be shaken off after a few years and someone serious can try to make a live action version of Assassin's Creed or something cool.

@spartan1308: Sadly its already saved on my Netflix Queue. Im curious as to how bad it actually is but I hope that my rental does not actually support more movies from this boob. (oh and did you know there was a Bloodrayne 2, it was suggested when I added this one, for that one Im not curious, I saw the first Bloodrayne :(

I hate to see Jason Statham and Ray Liotta misused for movies like this. They (whomever writes and finances this stuff) should have made something like "No Escape" as sort of a spiritual sequel...oh and why do they always get a Hong Kong choreographer for a medieval-fantasy movie...Imagine 300 with kung-fu Spartans, Im sure that would have done as well.

@grumbel: Quite frankly, you don't have to. I watched House of the Dead at my friends house, and my mind still has yet to recover from the damage caused. No man is masochistic enough to want to cause that sort of pain to himself one more time. Seriously, I am screaming from the inside at the very thought of that damned film. And I heard Alone in the Dark was worse? I've seriously pondered for a long, long time how you could possibly make a movie worse than House of the Dead. It is currently a more confusing concept than death for me, right now. By a lot.