And video game movies reach a new level of suck with AiD

[Promophile]

Here's a good review

http://www.boston.com/movies/display...=movie&id=5771

and here is the sad part of this review

Production notes tell us that the creator of Atari's H.P. Lovecraft-inspired ''Alone in the Dark" fourth installment (''The New Nightmare") handpicked German director Uwe Boll for the game's film adaptation because Boll recently brought Sega's ''House of the Dead" to the big screen.

Apparently it didn't matter that ''House of the Dead" is roundly considered an unwatchable movie, or that online chat rooms are full of angry postings from horror fans and video gamers who label Boll a hack. This filmmaker has found his talent-defying niche, and more of his video-game adaptations (including ''BloodRayne") are in the works, like it or not.

[Sothy]

I saw the preview and thought "Wow they stole that name from the Alone in the Dark videogame" had no idea it was supposed to be an adaptation.

Surprisingly enough Will Smith isnt in this one.

[SoulBlazer]

I'm sorry to see the movie getting such bad reviews. The previews looked good, I actually LIKE Slater and Reid (and it does'nt hurt that Terra Reid is some nice eye candy, like she was in the American Pie movies! ), and I'm a huge fan of the games.

It just seems that this is more proof that games are VERY HARD to convert to the big screen. I can count on one hand the ones I've liked enough to own (the first of the Tomb Raider and Mortal Kombat movies, Final Fantasy, and the two Resident Evil movies).

I'll reserve one last flicker of home from actuall reviews of people on this site. Has anyone here actually SEEN this movie yet?

[calthaer]

I wouldn't even count those movies in the list; I'm not sure there's a single video game movie that I would want to own. There are also very few movie video games I would want to own.

The exciting part about games is controlling the characters, which you can't do with a movie. Until they start making the characters in VG movies more than skin-deep, they're going to continue to suck and bomb.

P.S. - when did Christian Slater start to suck so bad? He used to be in some decent flicks (name of the rose, robin hood: prince of thieves).

[Promophile]

What, no love for the Mario Bros movie? The one with the tiny headed goomba guys and the dinosaurs and the fungus?

[petewhitley]

I'm sorry to see the movie getting such bad reviews. The previews looked good, I actually LIKE Slater and Reid (and it does'nt hurt that Terra Reid is some nice eye candy, like she was in the American Pie movies! ), and I'm a huge fan of the games.

Tara Reid reminds me of the drunk, slightly overweight girls I would have one-night stands with in college. Needless to say, it brings a shiver to my spine to even look at her.

[thehistorian]

ok.. what can I say with out getting in trouble...

Uh...

Boll's next project is supposed to be BloodRayne....

He also has the rights to Dungeon Siege. I know for a fact that DS is being adapted by different writers than those used on AitD and HotD. I can also say that the DS games backstory was writen by Neal Hallford, better known for "Betrayal at Krondor", "Return to Krondor", "Planet's Edge" and "Might & Magic III: Isles of Terra". But to my knowledge he is not working on the screen play. I wish I good give you more... but at this time I can not.

[Captain Wrong]

Doing the "On Topic Shimmy" on this one.

<boogaloo down>

[crazyjackcsa]

The worst part is we have to keep supporting these bad movies in th ehope that a good one will be made! RE wasn't horrible, I haven't seen the second one. Why not pick a game with a good story and make it more than some dumb action/horror flick. I think someday, like comic book movies, there will be a good one.

[EnemyZero]

bloodrayne is pretty much done, there just looking for a company to take it to the bigscreen...there worried about the rating because theres alot of erotic lesbian vampire scenes...theres an interview with him on ign.com

[Sothy]

there worried about the rating because theres alot of erotic lesbian vampire scenes...

You just sold me a ticket buddy.

[Frankie23]

I think I'm the only person who liked House of the Dead, but even I can't support this new piece of crud. Alone in the Dark should be about a bespectacled man investigting horrible, unspeakable things. It shouldn't involve military squads and look like an Aliens rip-off.

[calthaer]

He also has the rights to Dungeon Siege.

I liked the first hour or two of Dungeon Siege.

After that it became a pure bore. Man, I had such high hopes for that game. It looks good, it even seems good on a surface level...but it just had zero depth. There's only combat, and even that is so formulaic (with nary a bit of strategy) that the game becomes tedium quickly.

I can only imagine the movie would be about as one-dimensional as the game - if not more. I foresee a dramatic comeback of MST3K with this movie as the centerpiece.

[stargate]

I'm sorry to see the movie getting such bad reviews. The previews looked good, I actually LIKE Slater and Reid (and it does'nt hurt that Terra Reid is some nice eye candy, like she was in the American Pie movies! ), and I'm a huge fan of the games.

Tara Reid reminds me of the drunk, slightly overweight girls I would have one-night stands with in college. Needless to say, it brings a shiver to my spine to even look at her.

If you were banging chicks that looked like Tara Reid in college and these memories bring a "shiver" to your spine, there is definitely something wrong with you.

[FantasiaWHT]

I can also say that the DS games backstory was writen by Neal Hallford, better known for "Betrayal at Krondor", "Return to Krondor",

oh... my... god...

I was the biggest Raymond E Feist fan you could imagine (his first book is utterly brilliant. The whole firs trilogy is top notch) until I played these games. They were written so horribly and with such a terrible plot that only barely correctly fit in the Krondor universe.... and then he actually turned the video game into a BOOK! And kept the dialogue VERBATIM! It was without a doubt the worst book I had ever read... everything Feist wrote after that was just insanely poor quality compared to his earlier works.

[Jorpho]

Ah, the best thing about bad movies is the quotes used to describe them. My favorite is still:

"As for the culprits, let's begin with the committee, the gang of four, that pummelled some guiltless keyboard and dreamed it was a script."
--Rick Groen (Globe & Mail movie critic), on "Catwowan"

But veering back on topic, anyone know where Moviefone's old Pong movie spoof went?

[Push Upstairs]

there worried about the rating because theres alot of erotic lesbian vampire scenes

This has now landed on my "DVD's to rent" list.

I won't say "ticket" because i have grown to dislike theaters and people acting like asses, but when this hits DVD...i'm there for those scenes.

[Mattiekrome]

I'm sorry to see the movie getting such bad reviews. The previews looked good, I actually LIKE Slater and Reid (and it does'nt hurt that Terra Reid is some nice eye candy, like she was in the American Pie movies! ), and I'm a huge fan of the games.

Tara Reid reminds me of the drunk, slightly overweight girls I would have one-night stands with in college. Needless to say, it brings a shiver to my spine to even look at her.

If you were banging chicks that looked like Tara Reid in college and these memories bring a "shiver" to your spine, there is definitely something wrong with you.

my thoughts as well

[Sph1nx]

Am I one of the few people that enjoyed house of the dead?
Im not saying it was a good movie by any means.
It was uttely HORRRIBLE. Espically with thos random clips from the game inserted.
But none the less I enjoyed it.
It was what I expcted: a slightly ammusing, horrbly lame movie with people killing/being killed by zombies.

[Sylentwulf]

Slightly off topic, but I'll agree with the first assessment of tara reid.
Yeah, I thought she was downright unbelievably hot in american pie.

Now she's a hilton girl wannabe, and looks like a crack whore prostitute who doesn't even mind if she's paid for what she's giving out.