Does that mean we finally almost win?!

He's still going to be making movies of some sort though...

Oh no!!!!! Don't make movies about smaller games like Portal I beg you!

Hopefully soon his true passion will be greeting people as they enter Wal-Mart

@Witzbold: No, just that he finally almost came close to losing.

@Witzbold: More importantly - does this mean no raping of Legacy of Kain?

Yes, I am actually afraid of that.

Can't he make movies based on video game properties with no value? Like Daiktana or Duke Nukem? (wakka wakka)

Alright, Mr. Fahey...you win. But beware: we Germans aren't all smiles and sunshine.

Hey Alone in the Dark wasn't that bad actually....
ohh wait I'm confusing it with Darkness Falls...
carry on will the Boll Bashing

@bluecell:

Most likely he'd just punch them in the face as they walked in.

@bluecell: Since Wal-Mart retreated from Germany, does this mean you want him? You can have him!

hahaha, I love seeing this guy fail.

@Winterbringer:

Except he hasn't failed. He's laughing all the way to the bank.

I am surprised that it did 3 million.

Heh Remember guys. I dont care how cheap it is dont buy the DVD, as long as his movies dont break into a profit he will be forever ban hammered out of theatrical release.

Dont forget he is still doing the farcry movie :(

What happens to Far Cry?

This is a dark day for us gamers :(

@ballaboy311: I'm sure half of it was from unsuspecting people, who just wanted to see a movie with "that guy from the transporter" set in medieval times. The other half were people who who saw bloodrayne and are looking for something to laugh at.

@Lant: Why did you have to remind me. D: Now Im sad again.

I won't be happy until this man is broken and crying in the streets. I know that sounds harsh, but, well ok it is harsh. Guess I'm just a bad person.

@Oomingmak: That is exactly what I was thinking lol. That or old people that just don't have anything better to do.

I feel bad for Leelee Sobieski.

This man must be one hell of a good persuasive speaker. How he continually cons studios to back his films that always fail, is beyond me. There are real directors out there, with real talant, and they continually struggle to make the films that they want to make, and SHOULD be made.

"These are the films that represent my true passion, and they can be done with small budgets"...
Translation:
'I can't run major production so I am lowering the bar so that maybe I will eventualy make a movie that will be somewhat close to profitable.'

Memo to Boll:

Quit ruining game movies and just go away. You suck....jackass.

What I don't get is why they still give him scripts. If I was a game developer, and I heard he got my games adaptation, i'd raise hell and demand a better director. Hollywood knows the guy sucks, the people know he sucks, so why does he still have a job?

@mrantimatter: From what I've heard, he's very charismatic. That's the only explanation I've heard for why this guy is still employed, which doesn't really explain anything.

@mrantimatter: But doesn't the scripts suck anyway, and isn't dungeon siege dead, buried and forgotten by now?

One has to ask themselves why these games where the ones he made into movies. Much better and high profile games out there to make a movie on.

@CaptLtrl: I'm with you - our numbers are already growing!

p.s. - I'll bring the salt and lemon to rub in his eyes should he decide to be tough about it.

I think we need to look at this from a different perspective. This is a movie with Burt Reynolds and none of you went to go see it? The problem isn't with Uwe. Uwe clearly knows what's going on. Ever stop to think that the problem may actually be with you guys, the viewers? There would've been no Cannonball Run II, no Smokey and the Bandit, Cop and a Half, no.. no, fucking Hooper if it weren't for that man. You should all be ashamed of yourselves.

Yeah, I didn't see it either.

@badasscat: Just her? What about the rest of humanity?

seems like jesus has performed his first miracle in over 2,000 years...

the apocalypse is nigh!

@SithNinja: It's not just Boll ruining game movies. Two off the top of my head: Mario Bros and Street Fighter. No matter who directs it, the movie will suck. I think the only decent one was the original Mortal Kombat.

Mortal Kombat ftw. About time this dude backed up a bit, he was making games look as though they had concepts on a similar level to rat feces.

@Ryadic: I liked Mortal Kombat, the two Tomb Raider films, and Silent Hill.

This all ignoring non-hollywood films like Advent Children and Pokemon.

@Ryadic:

Boll is just an awful film maker period, it doesn't matter the content. You can only compare crap like Mario Bros and SF to his work because you haven't seen it.

Check out Alone in the Dark or BloodRayne 2. They make both of the films you mentioned look like Academy Award contenders.

Boll lacks not only the ability to pick a decent script, but to also direct and edit a competent film, on a scale that makes most made for youtube productions look professional.

He still has an arsenal of films ready, but if it's true his tax loop-hole is finally gone, he will eventually vanish.

Now all the retards who actually buy his stuff on DVD have to just STOP!

(Unless you're a small minority doing it for educational purposes, or torturing confessions out of terrorists.)

Until he stops creating movies based on games he is giving all gamers a bad name.

I hope he forgets about Legacy of Kain. I really, really do.

@Saint Anima (PSN = PoeticMassacre): *knocks on wood*

How he even got into the big budget ring, i don't even know. Although, it was sad to see him go without making an adaptation of some bad game, like Kane and Lynch, or announcing he is developing a Duke Nukem Forever game, that way we won't have our hopes high at all.

What ever happened to Postal?

@Saint Anima (PSN = PoeticMassacre):

Uwe's like an elephant -- he never forgets.

@Sloopydrew: Wasnt it already released?

Almost killed myself with the delay of SSBB, but now that victory vs Boll is almost won, I cant die yet :D
This is good news to all of us that love games in their true form and not in some crappy movie ¬.¬

Baring the fact that Uwe Boll is maybe the worst director of all time and I would rather watch "Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter" sober than anything he has directed. The studio execs somehow thought it was a great idea to keep feeding him money. Uwe must spin a great tapestry of words to convince them that the next movie he does will be a super ultra blockbuster. Oh, and to buy this shiny new Golden Gate Bridge. :)

he sucks

There is a God.

Dyslexia is a crule misstres. For a second there, I misread it as "...I will focus on small films such as (the video game adaptation) 'Portal'..."

Portal, A Uwe Boll Film.

Thats the stuff of nightmares.

Uwe Boll shoulders a heavy burden.
To produce ridiculously bad movies that no else is dumb enough, or sane enough to produce.
Name someone else who is capable of making movies so thoroughly bad as Uwe Boll?
Also he is convinced his movies are masterpieces (to the point that he wants to fight the people who write bad reviews of them).
Uwe Boll, truly a terribly great man.

@Witzbold: IMDB only has a US release date for Postal at a film festival. When you check for box office numbers, they only have data for Austria and Germany.

Apparently it didn't get a real US release. It'll be on DVD in Germany next month, but they don't have a US DVD date.

Maybe we'll be lucky and won't even have a chance to see it.

@mrantimatter:

He's not getting many scripts. A lot of the game-to-film licenses he's making now are from what he acquired years ago (before House of the Dead even hit theatres) that he kept on the backburner (like Far Cry). He's getting less & less scripts now that word has broke of how disasterful a director he is. The scripts he's getting nowadays are mainly sequels to the films in which he had already acquired the rights to.

I know a lot of us (including me) loved to take pot-shots at Vin Diesel when he was announced as producer & lead for the Hitman film (before he dropped the project). However, we owe him a bit of gratitude. Boll was just inches away from acquiring the film rights to Hitman from Eidos, had Diesel & Fox not stepped in & beat him to it. Despite however you took the film, it could have been a lot worse with Boll's grubby hands all over it.

I demand a Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training movie by Uwe Boll. Where the + sign, the letter G and the number 7 battle for world dominance while dragon-riding stick figures go in and out of houses. And then there would be some sort of God who would smite non-believers with pointy styluses falling from the sky.
And robot ninjas. Gotta have robot ninjas.

Boll should attack the classics now. Something like Burgertime or Beer Tapper. Make them flashy, lots of motion blurs, bad acting and unnecessary CGI.

@futurebiblehero: A world without Burt Reynolds is one part of my utopia. What a talentless hack.

@badasscat: I don't. She's really hot, and at least a marginally talented actress. Once she beats her agent's face in for talking her into doing an Uwe Boll movie, her life should be roses.