Finally an online petition I can support - 1 million votes to stop Uwe Boll !...

[Flerbizky]

http://www.petitiononline.com/RRH53888/petition.html

I'm number 89139 :-)

 

[Omnis]

I'd rather he spend his time creating movies than spend his time teaching others how to create movies.

 

[the Interceptor]

Sorry for the odd question, but what's wrong with Uwe Boll?

 

[Flerbizky]

Sorry for the odd question, but what's wrong with Uwe Boll?

BloodRayne is one example.

 

[TheCracker]

Let him continue making them. If people actually pay good money to watch a film adaptation of a computer game, they've only got themselves to blame IMO.

 

[the Interceptor]

I must confess I've never seen any of the movies he's had his hands in.

 

[Flerbizky]

I must confess I've never seen any of the movies he's had his hands in.

My advice is - Don't...

 

[the Interceptor]

No worries, I don't plan to.

 

[Small_Fryz]

I dont even know who he is..

 

[TB]

How about this one?

 

[Muzaffar]

Hey, just give him a chance. I know all his other work is like 🤬 (Alone in the Dark, BloodRayne II and House of the Dead 👎) and his other movie are just....... okay. But judging by his new movie, Postal, seems it ain't so bad (the plot and the trailer seems interesting) The cast ain't so bad either. But yeah, another reason to never watch movies that is made of 100% suck quality!!!!! 👍 [/LdS]

 

[kikie]

Uwe Boll?

 

[Spock]

117825

 

[peeweegary]

are his movies that bad...i just read about him on wikipedia...

 

[Duke]

Let him continue making them. If people actually pay good money to watch a film adaptation of a computer game, they've only got themselves to blame IMO.

You'd think, after decades of time, countless thousands of attempts, and untold millions of wasted dollars, that people might learn:

• Movies based on computer games always suck.
• Computer games based on movies always suck.

This isn't Nobel Prize material, people.

 

[buickgnx88]

Wonder when Roller Coaster Tycoon: The Movie is coming out?

 

[Muzaffar]

You'd think, after decades of time, countless thousands of attempts, and untold millions of wasted dollars, that people might learn:

• Movies based on computer games always suck.
• Computer games based on movies always suck.

This isn't Nobel Prize material, people.

Not always......
Spiderman 1 & 2 (comic to movie to game. Sadly, Spiderman 3 sucks.... )
Tomb Raider (game to movie)
Resident Evil (game to movie)
Final Fantasy (game to movie)

Wonder when Roller Coaster Tycoon: The Movie is coming out?

Better yet, when will The Sims: The Movie come out?

 

[buickgnx88]

Better yet, when will The Sims: The Movie come out?

That would only be good if the people talked in the same "language" as in the game!

 

[Nitrof1]

nothing can stop him! niahahah

 

[TheCracker]

Not always......
Spiderman 1 & 2 (comic to movie to game. Sadly, Spiderman 3 sucks.... )
Tomb Raider (game to movie)
Resident Evil (game to movie)
Final Fantasy (game to movie)


Better yet, when will The Sims: The Movie come out?

Doesn't this just prove Duke's point?

 

[Muzaffar]

Doesn't this just prove Duke's point?

Wait, didn't Duke said that all movies based on computer games always suck? (and vice versa)
I just made a point that some movies based on computer games are good (and vice versa) and make big bucks without upsetting the fans. So how is that even related to Duke's point?

Also, Uwe Boll isn't as bad as...... those other Z-list movie directors.....

 

[Duke]

Resident Evil movies suck.

The Spiderman movies are decent adaptations of the comics, but I never played the games, so I can't comment there.

 

[F1GTR]

All of the game-to-film adaptations you posted can hardly be called good movies, Muz.

 

[Tornado]

Tomb Raider (game to movie)

Those movies represent half of Angelina Jolie's career (which boils down to Angelina Jolie + tight clothes). The bad half.

Resident Evil (game to movie)

The first 30 minutes of the first movie was decent. That is all.

Final Fantasy (game to movie)

A movie so bad Final Fantasy fans wouldn't even go see it? And, if you are talking about Advent Children, a movie that was just an hour and a half cutscene?

However, this:

Movies based on computer games always suck.

I disagree with because of 3 movies in particular, plus a couple I am unwilling to name.

And this:

Computer games based on movies always suck.

I disagree with strongly.

 

[TheCracker]

Wait, didn't Duke said that all movies based on computer games always suck? (and vice versa)
I just made a point that some movies based on computer games are good (and vice versa) and make big bucks without upsetting the fans. So how is that even related to Duke's point?

The films you mentioned may have done fairly well at the box office but that doesn't mean the films were any good. They may not have even upset the fans of the games - but they certainly upset fans of films in general by being trash.

 

[niky]

A movie so bad Final Fantasy fans wouldn't even go see it? And, if you are talking about Advent Children, a movie that was just an hour and a half cutscene?

While I actually enjoyed watching Advent Children... this made me

Yes, I admit I enjoyed it. Despite the idiotic plot, unbelieveable action and ultra-ultra-ULTRA-cheesy dialogue and story.

FF:The Spirits Within was halfway decent, hamstrung by some unbelievable plot devices, terrible facial animation (which was supposedly going to be its strongest feature) and a weak story.

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While I disagree with Duke, on the premise that no generalization can be true... I can't honestly think of a single game-movie conversion that actually produced a movie worth watching, except on a beer-and-chips night when the cable is out. Not a single one...

I've looked up the online lists of video-games to movies... guess what? I've watched most of them, and all of them suck. The only halfway decent ones were maybe Tomb Raider I, which was mediocre except for the fight scenes... and Mortal Kombat (the first movie only) which was a movie about fight scenes... oh... and maybe Resident Evil I, just for the babe-age. Still all beer and chips fare, and not anything I'd actually pay money to watch if I had to go watch them again.

And don't get me started about movies that look like video games... the platform scenes in Minority Report and Star Wars Episode II were so laughable that I almost walked out of the movie house when I saw them. Honestly... who thinks up this stuff?

Comic books? That's another matter, entirely. Some comic books actually have a story... too bad that's a rarity, nowadays, too.

But movie-to-game... there have been some bright points there... whie most movie-based games have been unutterably dreary, there have been a few Star Wars titles worth playing... and James Bond GoldenEye on the N64 was one of the best console shooters of all time...

Still doesn't make most of these new movie-based videogames anything more than expensive doorstops, though. I've played some pretty crap-tacular ones. I'd say the number of good movie-based video games is about one in one hundred... and since they seem to make about a hundred movie-based games a year, chances are at least one of them will be good.

 

[Muzaffar]

A movie so bad Final Fantasy fans wouldn't even go see it? And, if you are talking about Advent Children, a movie that was just an hour and a half cutscene?

Why? I can't help but watch it you know. I'm a big FF & KH fan!!!!
(yeah, when will the Kingdom Hearts movie come out. Surely the plot would be better......)

The films you mentioned may have done fairly well at the box office but that doesn't mean the films were any good. They may not have even upset the fans of the games - but they certainly upset fans of films in general by being trash.

Okay, point taken.
Actually, to kinda think about it, I can't recall any good game to movie (or vice versa) that didn't upset the fans. Well I never watch movies these days anyways...... (liar)

Oh, might as well list down some more awful movie/game conversions....

The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift (bad movie, even worse game)
Driven (both movie/game fail)
......

ah never mind, its all OT post anyways....

 

[niky]

Since when has OT been an issue on the Rumble Strip?

 

[Tornado]

Oh, might as well list down some more awful movie/game conversions....

I like ones that the movie is total trash and the game is great. Like Chronicles of Riddick, or Ballistix: Ecks vs. Sever.

I can't honestly think of a single game-movie conversion that actually produced a movie worth watching, except on a beer-and-chips night when the cable is out.

Street Fighter II rocked; Mortal Kombat was decent enough that I could stretch the definition of good to include it; and Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie had Sonic giving Robotnik the finger. And Hitman would be good if the only movies you had ever seen were the Transporter films.
I'm ignoring Pokemon for this demonstration.

 

[niky]

Which SFII? The cartoon, I hope? Because if you mean that Van Damne flick, I've lost all respect for you... (hahaha... j/k... if you mean the cartoon... yes, it was nice and watchable... still beer and chips)...

Mortal Kombat was probably the closest any fighting game based movie has gotten to good... but only if you're a fan of the game. Great fight scenes, though.