Scalzi on Uwe Boll
Posted: Thu 12 March, 2009 Filed under: General 2 Comments »via his blog “Whatever“, I got to John Scalzi’s column on AMC about why films based on video games are always abysmal.
As he says, “The answer is not just ‘Because Uwe Boll makes them’ although truthfully that is a large part of the answer.”
Scalzi sums it up really in one paragraph.
This was a nice set-up for Boll, since he’s been able to make a nice living playing filmmaker. It wasn’t nice for us, because Uwe Boll makes movies like monkeys drive trucks. Through Boll, the world is saddled with flicks like House of the Dead, Alone in the Dark and Bloodrayne, which all make you want to bleed from the eyeballs.
Got to say it – that article was lacking in content. Didn’t even consider films like Silent Hill or Final Fantasy or ask any pertinent questions about whether it’s possible to adapt video games into good films.
Agreed – I just liked the writing style, and description of Boll’s directing method.
There was a whole lot more that could’ve been said though.