That's right I said it. I'm starting the first official Uwe Boll fan club. I will be lined up (in a line consisting of 2 people)in front of our local theatre to buy tickets for the first show. I think the mistake that some of the posters have made is either not seeing the crap-tastic "House of the Dead" or the most unwatchable of his films "Alone in the Dark", or thinking his films will get better as he learns his "craft".
I was once like you, tricked into seeing House of the Dead only to be shat on for an hour and 35 minutes. But after Alone in the Dark came out, I discovered the blinding and wonderful truth of his films. Uwe Boll is a throw back to the great "USA Up ALL Night", staring Shannon Tweed and or Shannon Whirry, & generic slasher films of the early and mid - eighties. These films have a special place in heart for whatever reason. It might be because the represent a special part of movie making, the bad formula film.
He makes movies based on a formula, a proved formula. Get a known brand with a built in fan base. (in this case, video games that are past their shelf life.)Put this brand into a profitable movie genre such as teen sex comedy (I'm looking at you National Lampoon) or horror film. Wait to cast the film until the last possible minute in order to get as many "name" stars as you can for as cheap as you can. (suprise- many stars take rolls just for a paycheck or because the can squeeze it in between projects and collect a paycheck)Throw in gore/mind-numbing action and or nudity and you have yourself a film that will make back it's budget (between 10 to 20 million) worldwide before it ever sees DVD. Roger Corman made himself a name and a fortune doing this type of film making.
I'm not saying that his films are any good or even watchable at times. What I'm saying is that I crack the hell up every time I watch one. Enjoy them for what they are, Huge wastes of someone's hard warned money. I swear that I laugh more at these films than I laugh at films like "Meet the Fockers".
Do yourself a favor and rent Alone in the Dark and see if you can keep from laughing when the Tara Reid says New-found-land. It's like angels singing.
Roscoe P. Coltrane
I was once like you, tricked into seeing House of the Dead only to be shat on for an hour and 35 minutes. But after Alone in the Dark came out, I discovered the blinding and wonderful truth of his films. Uwe Boll is a throw back to the great "USA Up ALL Night", staring Shannon Tweed and or Shannon Whirry, & generic slasher films of the early and mid - eighties. These films have a special place in heart for whatever reason. It might be because the represent a special part of movie making, the bad formula film.
He makes movies based on a formula, a proved formula. Get a known brand with a built in fan base. (in this case, video games that are past their shelf life.)Put this brand into a profitable movie genre such as teen sex comedy (I'm looking at you National Lampoon) or horror film. Wait to cast the film until the last possible minute in order to get as many "name" stars as you can for as cheap as you can. (suprise- many stars take rolls just for a paycheck or because the can squeeze it in between projects and collect a paycheck)Throw in gore/mind-numbing action and or nudity and you have yourself a film that will make back it's budget (between 10 to 20 million) worldwide before it ever sees DVD. Roger Corman made himself a name and a fortune doing this type of film making.
I'm not saying that his films are any good or even watchable at times. What I'm saying is that I crack the hell up every time I watch one. Enjoy them for what they are, Huge wastes of someone's hard warned money. I swear that I laugh more at these films than I laugh at films like "Meet the Fockers".
Do yourself a favor and rent Alone in the Dark and see if you can keep from laughing when the Tara Reid says New-found-land. It's like angels singing.
Roscoe P. Coltrane