This is the first game from Oscar winning director Uwe Boll. Wait, he didn’t win an Oscar. Oh. That’s right, Dungeon Siege got beat out by The Departed. Anyhow, here is the trailer from his new game which I think is a Vietnam era shooter. It looks, well, you decide for yourself on this one.
It took 10 minutes of Postal, the latest film from Uwe Boll to make 200 people walk out. The viewing was free. The reason? The first scene depicts terrorists high-jacking planes who decide to fore-go crashing into the World Trade Center and make for the Bahamas instead. The unaware passengers rush the cockpit and then the planes crash into the WTC thus making it the passengers fault for the death of thousands.
I actually felt sorry for Uwe Boll the other day when I read his interview. I felt maybe he was getting a raw deal. Now this. I have no problem with over the top humor but trivializing the death of thousands of innocent people for some shock factor in a movie? The man just committed career suicide. No theater in NYC will ever show his movies again. No actor in their right mind would go near this ethnocentrist. Its one thing to make shitty movies, that’s your prerogative. Make light of the death of several of my friends who passed away that day? Mr. Boll, people will be lining up to box you now. I would maybe challenge some of the guys down at the FDNY in Midtown Manhattan. I hear they are a little tougher than Michael Bay.
Why is it that making a good movie can not translate into making a good movie based video game? There is plenty of story based on the movie script and an obvious fan base already established, all the developers need to do is put that into a console and keep the game play fun and they would have an instant winner. Instead we get failed attempt after failed attempt of miserable movie inspired game.
Look at a great movie like Iron Man that unfortunately was treated to a sub par video game rendition, the sad part is that Iron Man the game was probably on e of the better video game adaptations of a movie. Look at any Batman, Superman, Fantastic Four or X-Men title, a poor excuse for a game for the most part.
Here are the top 9 worst movie video games:
E.T. - Maybe we give this one a pass because of the capabilities of the Atari 2600 back in the day?
Fight Club - Why go away from a story as good as Fight Club?
Planet of the Apes - Okay this was destined to fail, the movie was beat IMO
Jaws Unleashed - Open world shark attacks sound fun but prove the opposite.
Reservoir Dogs - No Mr. Pink, why? This bloody movie just became a bloody mess of a game.
Napolean Dynamite - Why bring Liger action 3 years after the popularity of the movie died out?
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Sigh, if people could fly then why walk at all?
The Great Escape - Way to wait 40 years after this movie was good, suddenly Napolean Dynamite is a genius move.
Enter The Matrix - The first movie was greatness anything after that was a travesty.
Lets also not forget the converse also holds true, a video game inspired movie is almost always destined to fail as well, Super Mario Bros., Street Fighter, Doom and anything Uwe Boll has ever made. This does not give a good impression for new movie ideas like the new Bioshock movie that has been slated. Why can’t a writer take a game like Zelda and the many different plots that it contains and make a good film? Let’s imagine a good Bioshock or GTA movie together, one where the game play elements and storyline are held true and done well, instant blockbuster hits, no doubt about it.
What do you think?
In what can only be called an odd turn of events in the feud between Uwe Boll and Michael Bay comes this quick message form Uwe Boll about an upcoming boxing match between the two. Apparently Uwe thinks he will knock out Bay in the 3rd round and Bay doesn’t even acknowledge the fight will occur. Good times all around, perhaps Uwe has gone completely off the deep end? What do you think?
Oh jesus, God, no. Its the end of the world…of Warcraft. Uwe Boll should be called King Feces. Everything he touches turns to doody. The oft-maligned movie director turned self-defined genius has asked Blizzard to sell the rights to his company so he can make the first WoW movie. Blizzard responded, ever so politely:
We will not sell the movie rights, not to you… especially not to you.
And like that, Azeroth was saved. To be honest, it was never in any real danger. Do you really think they would undercut themselves and sell the beloved franchise to perhaps the most hated director in the gaming world to make a movie about a game? No, me neither. Its just funny to see someone get that soundly rejected.
Do you want Uwe Boll to stop making giant debacles of video game movies? He’s already ruined such franchise as House of the Dead, BloodRayne, Dungeon Siege and Postal, with even more massacres in production.
FEARnet brought up an online petition to Uwe Boll during a recent interview where 18,000 people have signed up asking for Boll to stop directing movies altogether. Uwe shrugged it off, saying that’s not enough people. How many is? One million. Yep, a whole million people need to sign a petition and Uwe Boll will crawl back behind a rock.
I don’t know about you, but I’m all for this. So go sign the petition and let’s get some decent video game movies out there.
