And now…Ben Kingsley???
Say it ain’t so! Is this Raul Julia 2K4?
Sorry, I got distracted trying to work out what I could do with forty eight million dollars that would hurt less than a film like House of the Dead…
Wow, redefines the term asstastic. Must have been going for the SegaCD FMV oeuvre…
No, it’s not. Did you see HOUSE OF THE DEAD? Boll is just 100% devoid of talent. And after this he’s making DUNGEON SIEGE and BLOODRAYNE, I believe. He’s single-handedly killing off the videogame movie genre.[/quote]
Also, the “Far Cry” movie: Far Cry (2008) - IMDb
It’s actually possible that the Far Cry in game cut scenes, among the worst I’ve ever seen, are better than this guy’s movies. Maybe he’ll use them as a starting point.
The mind boggles, really it does. There’s just no logic in this world when a demonstrably awful director keeps getting given money to turn into shit. Are they trying to make these game franchises in to deliberately bad films? It’s not even as if he’s like Albert Pyun who at least is working with peanuts (and monkeys) to produce straight to video fodder.
Edit: This man has a PhD?
Maybe he works cheap, gets movies in underbudget and on-time?
Studios aren’t going to invest much in these types of films so they need to maximize their money.
Painful. I couldn’t even get through it.
I presume that he does, because judging by what ends up on screen, that’s about all he possibly could be doing. I’m sure a good accountant could get a movie made even quicker and cheaper, I don’t think they should though.
I want to belive the trailer was a joke, or that they are intentionally camping it up. I haven’t seen House of the Dead… are my assumptions totally baseless?
Doom 3 has better graphics.
I kid not.
Did anyone else notice that the monster who killed the security guard sounded EXACTLY like the Cave Troll in Fellowship of the Ring?
Someone’s raiding WETA’s sound vault. :)
I couldn’t figure out what bugged me the most but after some thought it hit me! During the “gun fight” (I use the term loosely since no actual bullets were harmed in the making of that scene) they keep shooting around/at these boxes…and the boxes are never damaged! I don’t recall the special super strong boxes from the game but I am sure they will figure into the story of the movie…
Not too long ago I watched an episode of the original Star Trek. In it, Kirk and company are stranded on a planet controlled by an evil supercomputer, which uses its mastery of the weather to occasionally kill an unimportant crewman by lightning strike.
Anyway, in this episode the lightning strikes were animated. You could tell that they were hand-drawn and superimposed on the screen. This had precisely the same result as whatever shit technique they used in that trailer for the bullets (and especially the muzzle flashes, which would wobble around independently of the weapon).
I’m particularly fond of the unconvincing knife throw, and that gunfight was worthy of a particularly high-budget episode of “The A-Team.”
Did Stephen Dorff lose a bet or something? Why is he in this? Tara Reid’s dumber’n’ a bag of hammers and Christian Slater can’t choose a role for shit lately, but how did Dorff get suckered into this assburger?
This latest addition to the Christian Slater file, courtesy of Popbitch:
Christian Slater will be playing the Jack
Nicholson character in One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s
Nest on stage in Edinburgh and the West End. In
the play he’ll have to pretend to be mad. This
shouldn’t be too much of a stretch for him - he’ll
be able to draw on some of his own experiences.
For example when Christian was arrested on drug
charges some years ago the story goes that he had
gone into a theatre toilet and started smashing
mirrors, throwing bins around. The staff called
the police, who entered the toilet to find
Slater, high as a kite, writing “poop” on the
wall with a piece of his own excrement.
Did I pass out and miss the resurrection of Dorff’s career? What did he do of note after accidentally starring in Blade?
My boy sent me the link yesterday.
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All I can say is that I feel embarrassed for everyone involved with the project.
The knife scene at the end reminds me of some dodgy theater work I’ve done. They could have at least used some real editing for the trailer.