Dungeon Seige: Uwe Boll's slimy grasp

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Be prepared to endure Uwe "Toilet" Boll ruining another RPG -- Dungeon
Seige. It shoots in June.

Jonah Falcon

 

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> Be prepared to endure Uwe "Toilet" Boll ruining another RPG -- Dungeon
> Seige. It shoots in June.

Are people actually still paying to see this guy's movies? Jeez, this guy
needs to just retire or find some other genre to ruin...

 

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Jonah Falcon wrote:

> Be prepared to endure Uwe "Toilet" Boll ruining another RPG -- Dungeon
> Seige. It shoots in June.

Oh god no! Alone in the Dark is up there with Ator. Uwe needs to stop,
or rename himself Ed Wood...

 

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"James Garvin" <jgarvin2004@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Jonah Falcon wrote:
>
>> Be prepared to endure Uwe "Toilet" Boll ruining another RPG -- Dungeon
>> Seige. It shoots in June.
>
> Oh god no! Alone in the Dark is up there with Ator. Uwe needs to stop,
> or rename himself Ed Wood...

Well, Bloodrayne and Far Cry are both Uwe Boll movies now.

And Ed Wood is a better director.

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He's worse than just a bad director. This guy is a complete fruitcake:

http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2649

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Darrel Hoffman wrote:
> Are people actually still paying to see this guy's movies?

He doesn't care: the whole thing is apparently a tax dodge, so his
'investors' may well make money even if the 'movie' never makes a
penny.

Mark

 

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shadows wrote:
> How do you know this? That's incredible.

It's been widely discussed on IMDB. I believe at least one person who's
worked with him has stated that he gets funding from people looking for
a tax writeoff, but I'm not sure of the details of German film funding
tax breaks. It's possible they actually get a bigger tax writeoff if
the movie is a flop than if it's successful.

Mark

 

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Darrel Hoffman wrote:
>
> I'll admit that there have been a few somewhat decent games made from
> movies, but very seldom does it go the other way successfully. The only
> example of that you mentioned was the Final Fantasy movie, which was
> mediocre at best. (In terms of graphics, it was excellent, of course, but
> when you consider it in terms of a movie... Not so much.)

The problem with FF The Movie is that the story is too cryptic, with no head
and tails... There are too may unexplained in the story (I admit I could not
raise any example since the movie is so cryptic that I don't know what it is
trying to tell and so, it leaves no impression in my memory). Plus that movie
has totally nothing to do with Final Fantasy games, except maybe the movie
maybe using the same engine (or and upgraded version) of the rendering soft for
the game's cutscene, another common point maybe the character Dr Ced (or Cede
or Ceed, whatever the spelling of his name is). This Ced always apeared in the
game and is always associated with some technological position in the game. (He
is the designer and head engineer of the Airship in FF4 (JP) and he has
something to do with some device with the crystals in FF5 (JP)...) I'm not sure
if he still appears in FF6/7/8 and later (I remebering never met anyone named
Ced in FF9, but I may have missed it) as I've never played these episodes.

Regrds.

 

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Thus spake "Darrel Hoffman" <i.dont@think.so>, Mon, 21 Feb 2005 18:28:06
-0500, Anno Domini:

>> - Law & Order adventure games were ok
>
>Ugh, they made games out of that series? (I absolutely hate the TV show,
>and they keep making spin-off after spin-off. Pretty soon there will be
>nothing on TV but clones of L&O, CSI, and ER. At least CSI and ER have the
>creative writing staff to come up with their own plots most of the time
>instead of this constant "Ripped from the headlines" junk...)

Yeah, love ER - Mrs loves L&O/CSI/Cold Case/Crossing Jordan/Without a
Trace/anything to do with cops, killers or serial nutcases. Go figure?

I forgot: AvP1 (dunno about 2) - greatest suspense fps ever - the Marine
campaign had my nerves shot to hell for weeks!

>I'll admit that there have been a few somewhat decent games made from
>movies, but very seldom does it go the other way successfully. The only
>example of that you mentioned was the Final Fantasy movie, which was
>mediocre at best. (In terms of graphics, it was excellent, of course, but
>when you consider it in terms of a movie... Not so much.)

Fair enough, potato, tomato...;-)

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Nostromo wrote:
> Thus spake "Darrel Hoffman" <i.dont@think.so>, Mon, 21 Feb 2005 18:28:06
> -0500, Anno Domini:
>
>
>>>- Law & Order adventure games were ok
>>
>>Ugh, they made games out of that series? (I absolutely hate the TV show,
>>and they keep making spin-off after spin-off. Pretty soon there will be
>>nothing on TV but clones of L&O, CSI, and ER. At least CSI and ER have the
>>creative writing staff to come up with their own plots most of the time
>>instead of this constant "Ripped from the headlines" junk...)
>
>
> Yeah, love ER - Mrs loves L&O/CSI/Cold Case/Crossing Jordan/Without a
> Trace/anything to do with cops, killers or serial nutcases. Go figure?
>
> I forgot: AvP1 (dunno about 2) - greatest suspense fps ever - the Marine
> campaign had my nerves shot to hell for weeks!

beep.....beep.....beep...beep..beep..beep.beep.beep.
beepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeep
*m41a shooting in bursts*
;-)

 

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On 2005-02-22, mmaker@my-deja.com <mmaker@my-deja.com> wrote:
> Darrel Hoffman wrote:
>> Are people actually still paying to see this guy's movies?
>
> He doesn't care: the whole thing is apparently a tax dodge, so his
> 'investors' may well make money even if the 'movie' never makes a
> penny.

How do you know this? That's incredible.

 

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"Lynley James" <lynley.james@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> He's a director of really bad movies. He seems to have decided that
> he will be directing only video game adaptations. I know that Alone
> in the Dark was recently released in the US and died at the boxoffice.
> He has an adaptation of Bloodrayne and FarCry in the works. I don't
> really care about these, but in an article linked in a post here about
> two weeks ago it also stated that he has signed on to direct a film
> based on White Wolf's Hunter franchise.
>
> I never played the console titles, looked too actiony for my tastes,
> but I really enjoyed the PnP WhiteWolf games and even finished the
> first Vampire game on PC, Redemption.

I love PnP WhiteWolf games also... and the thought of their being a WW movie
is awsome, that its being made by this guy, depresses me to no end

Ceo-

 

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On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 21:43:48 +0800, "Ceowulf" <ceo@NOSPAMii.ATALLnet>
wrote:

>"Lynley James" <lynley.james@gmail.com> wrote in message
>newsluj119rideus89011s1ej52rcs1gqlfl9@4ax.com...
>
>> He's a director of really bad movies. He seems to have decided that
>> he will be directing only video game adaptations. I know that Alone
>> in the Dark was recently released in the US and died at the boxoffice.
>> He has an adaptation of Bloodrayne and FarCry in the works. I don't
>> really care about these, but in an article linked in a post here about
>> two weeks ago it also stated that he has signed on to direct a film
>> based on White Wolf's Hunter franchise.
>>
>> I never played the console titles, looked too actiony for my tastes,
>> but I really enjoyed the PnP WhiteWolf games and even finished the
>> first Vampire game on PC, Redemption.
>
>I love PnP WhiteWolf games also... and the thought of their being a WW movie
>is awsome, that its being made by this guy, depresses me to no end
>
>Ceo-
>

Look it could be worse, Underworld and its apparent sequels could've
tacked on a Werewolf license ;OP

Lynley

 

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In article <421b37b1$0$24214$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au>, "Ceowulf" <ceo@NOSPAMii.ATALLnet> wrote:
>"Lynley James" <lynley.james@gmail.com> wrote in message
>newsluj119rideus89011s1ej52rcs1gqlfl9@4ax.com...
>
>> He's a director of really bad movies. He seems to have decided that
>> he will be directing only video game adaptations. I know that Alone
>> in the Dark was recently released in the US and died at the boxoffice.
>> He has an adaptation of Bloodrayne and FarCry in the works. I don't
>> really care about these, but in an article linked in a post here about
>> two weeks ago it also stated that he has signed on to direct a film
>> based on White Wolf's Hunter franchise.
>>
>> I never played the console titles, looked too actiony for my tastes,
>> but I really enjoyed the PnP WhiteWolf games and even finished the
>> first Vampire game on PC, Redemption.
>
>I love PnP WhiteWolf games also... and the thought of their being a WW movie
>is awsome, that its being made by this guy, depresses me to no end
>
>Ceo-
>
>

Considering most of the PnP WW Players I meet seem to enjoy being depresssed,
isn't it kinda appropriate?

Eric

 

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On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:31:35 GMT, ewhardingisnot@comcast.net (Eric
Harding) wrote:

>In article <421b37b1$0$24214$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au>, "Ceowulf" <ceo@NOSPAMii.ATALLnet> wrote:
>>"Lynley James" <lynley.james@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>newsluj119rideus89011s1ej52rcs1gqlfl9@4ax.com...
>>
>>> He's a director of really bad movies. He seems to have decided that
>>> he will be directing only video game adaptations. I know that Alone
>>> in the Dark was recently released in the US and died at the boxoffice.
>>> He has an adaptation of Bloodrayne and FarCry in the works. I don't
>>> really care about these, but in an article linked in a post here about
>>> two weeks ago it also stated that he has signed on to direct a film
>>> based on White Wolf's Hunter franchise.
>>>
>>> I never played the console titles, looked too actiony for my tastes,
>>> but I really enjoyed the PnP WhiteWolf games and even finished the
>>> first Vampire game on PC, Redemption.
>>
>>I love PnP WhiteWolf games also... and the thought of their being a WW movie
>>is awsome, that its being made by this guy, depresses me to no end
>>
>>Ceo-
>>
>>
>
>Considering most of the PnP WW Players I meet seem to enjoy being depresssed,
>isn't it kinda appropriate?
>
>Eric

Nah, those are just the twits who *really* think they are vampires.
This is also known as LARP ;OP

Lynley

 

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Thusly shadows <shadows@whitefang.com> Spake Unto All:

>>> Are people actually still paying to see this guy's movies?
>>
>> He doesn't care: the whole thing is apparently a tax dodge, so his
>> 'investors' may well make money even if the 'movie' never makes a
>> penny.
>
>How do you know this? That's incredible.

It would explain why he continues to find funds for new movies even
though every one bombs, though.

Or perhaps he's a front, laundering money. I'm told indie movie
productions are popular for that kind of thing.


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On 2005-02-22, Mean_Chlorine <mike_noren2002@NOSPAMyahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Thusly shadows <shadows@whitefang.com> Spake Unto All:
>
>>>> Are people actually still paying to see this guy's movies?
>>>
>>> He doesn't care: the whole thing is apparently a tax dodge, so his
>>> 'investors' may well make money even if the 'movie' never makes a
>>> penny.
>>
>>How do you know this? That's incredible.
>
> It would explain why he continues to find funds for new movies even
> though every one bombs, though.
>
> Or perhaps he's a front, laundering money. I'm told indie movie
> productions are popular for that kind of thing.
>
>

How do movies launder money? I'm not being smart. I just don't
see it.

 

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shadows wrote:
> Typically any business has a paper trail for law enforcement to
> audit. Bank account statements, cheques, and payroll. A movie is
> created by such a business.

I take it you've never come across Hollywood accounting... it's amazing
how so many extremely successful movies never make a penny in profit
when people have been promised a percentage of net profits as payment
for their work.

Mark

 

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shadows wrote:


> How do movies launder money? I'm not being smart. I just don't
> see it.

Lets say a movie called "No light, No Friends Around Me" scores only 100k in
the boxoffice during the first weekend, but the producers claim it actually
scored 5.5 Million. So where did the 5.4M come from??

 

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On 2005-02-23, ChoyKw <newsreader@newsgroup.com> wrote:
> shadows wrote:
>
>
>> How do movies launder money? I'm not being smart. I just don't
>> see it.
>
> Lets say a movie called "No light, No Friends Around Me" scores only 100k in
> the boxoffice during the first weekend, but the producers claim it actually
> scored 5.5 Million. So where did the 5.4M come from??

Typically any business has a paper trail for law enforcement to
audit. Bank account statements, cheques, and payroll. A movie is
created by such a business.

If you want to launder money you're far better off opening a
restaurant. The crook walks in and gives you $1,000 a week. You
turn around and generate $1,000 in receipts for food you never
sold that week. That kind of stuff.

 

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shadows wrote:

> On 2005-02-23, ChoyKw <newsreader@newsgroup.com> wrote:
> > shadows wrote:
> >
> >
> >> How do movies launder money? I'm not being smart. I just don't
> >> see it.
> >
> > Lets say a movie called "No light, No Friends Around Me" scores only 100k in
> > the boxoffice during the first weekend, but the producers claim it actually
> > scored 5.5 Million. So where did the 5.4M come from??
>
> Typically any business has a paper trail for law enforcement to
> audit. Bank account statements, cheques, and payroll. A movie is
> created by such a business.
>
> If you want to launder money you're far better off opening a
> restaurant. The crook walks in and gives you $1,000 a week. You
> turn around and generate $1,000 in receipts for food you never
> sold that week. That kind of stuff.

You can also sell tickets that no audiance actually watched the movie
with...(okay, I admit 100k and 5.5 million are indeed *very* exagerated numbers)

 

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On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 13:50:45 -0700, James Garvin
<jgarvin2004@comcast.net> wrote:

>Nostromo wrote:
>> Thus spake "Darrel Hoffman" <i.dont@think.so>, Mon, 21 Feb 2005 18:28:06
>> -0500, Anno Domini:
>>
>>
>>>>- Law & Order adventure games were ok
>>>
>>>Ugh, they made games out of that series? (I absolutely hate the TV show,
>>>and they keep making spin-off after spin-off. Pretty soon there will be
>>>nothing on TV but clones of L&O, CSI, and ER. At least CSI and ER have the
>>>creative writing staff to come up with their own plots most of the time
>>>instead of this constant "Ripped from the headlines" junk...)
>>
>>
>> Yeah, love ER - Mrs loves L&O/CSI/Cold Case/Crossing Jordan/Without a
>> Trace/anything to do with cops, killers or serial nutcases. Go figure?
>>
>> I forgot: AvP1 (dunno about 2) - greatest suspense fps ever - the Marine
>> campaign had my nerves shot to hell for weeks!
>
>beep.....beep.....beep...beep..beep..beep.beep.beep.
>beepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeep
>*m41a shooting in bursts*
>;-)

The best map to play multiplayer in that game is Stranded. Just try
getting to the bunker with more than a quarter health. And the most
satisfying event is when someone decides that the bunker is the safest
place and camps, not realising that the Aliens can break in.

Lynley

 

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"Eric Harding" <ewhardingisnot@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Considering most of the PnP WW Players I meet seem to enjoy being
> depresssed,
> isn't it kinda appropriate?

Hahaha well, not really, but I bet there would be a great deal many as you
described

Ceo-