Uwe Boll blames video game companies for shitty movies based on games.

**Brisco Bold** · 15 Feb 2006, 12:52 PM

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=62899

Discuss.

**g0zen** · 15 Feb 2006, 01:02 PM

He lays it all out here.

**Jetman** · 15 Feb 2006, 01:05 PM

In fact, it's not just confusing Boll - it's putting him off the whole thing all together. "I won't say that I won't acquire another videogame licence in the future. But I'm not so eager to do it any more, to be honest. After Far Cry, maybe I'll go away from videogame-based movies. And everybody can be really happy about it."

There would be a celebration of magnimous proportions in the streets if this ever happens.

**Scourge** · 15 Feb 2006, 01:16 PM

Boll says the point is that his movies get better as his career progresses - Dungeon Siege is "ten times better" than BloodRayne, which is ten times better than House of the Dead, and so on.

10 X 0 = 0

**Drewbacca** · 15 Feb 2006, 01:34 PM

"The reality is that a lot of the videogame companies are quite sloppy - they are happy to sell the licence, but then they don't give a sh** about it, and this is not the right approach."

If video game companies actually gave a shit about their intellectual properties they wouldn't be handing them over to Uwe Boll.

I think he's right on the basis that game companies don't realize the importance of maintaining an intellectual property for maximum market appeal and exposure (Figures like Mario and Sonic have lost their mass market appeal, albeit Mario is still chugging along), but again, giving a movie licence over to Uwe Boll isn't going to help the situation. He's notorious for making bad movies. If Heart of America was a good movie then maybe he should go back and reevaluate what kind of movie it is he should actually be producing and selling.

Video game companies and fans need to realize, though, that making a movie out of a video game franchise isn't something to be covetted unless it lends itself to film making (like perhaps a Tomb Raider did, although those movies aren't exactly good either). Some video game IP's are better suited to comic books or graphic novels (MGS for example). I have a hard time thinking how Metroid would work as a successful movie.

**Dolemite** · 15 Feb 2006, 01:37 PM

Boll's an angry guy.

As for videogame movies getting a ship rep, doesn't he realize that he's mainly to blame for that in recent years? This guy's no Christophe Gans.

Still, he sounds like he busts his ass and really works hard to make the best movie he can (take that as you will). Plus, people keep giving him money to make movies and as he says HotD sold over a million copies on DVD, so he has an audience. Bloodrayne flopped in theaters but I'm sure it'll clean up on DVD as well.

**Drewbacca** · 15 Feb 2006, 01:41 PM

Their stories are juvenile and shallow at best. Even jRPG's which some hail as testaments to great story writing in videogames are shallow excuses for Dragonball Z-style melodrama.

Originally Posted by Dolemite

Boll's an angry guy.

As for videogame movies getting a ship rep, doesn't he realize that he's mainly to blame for that in recent years? This guy's no Christophe Gans.

Still, he sounds like he busts his ass and really works hard to make the best movie he can (take that as you will). Plus, people keep giving him money to make movies and as he says HotD sold over a million copies on DVD, so he has an audience. Bloodrayne flopped in theaters but I'm sure it'll clean up on DVD as well.

BloodRayne was release in theatres?