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Offline Dark_4ce

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on: January 09, 2005, 01:03:02 pm
I was so damn hyped about this movie. After all the rumors I heard, that this movie was going to be the first game to film movie that will break the "crap barrier" and surplant itself into greatness, I finally watched the trailer. They said it was like the games. Which were stories of a lone reporter or detective going into spooky places, counting heavily on the psychological horror... Well... Just watch the trailer...

http://www.apple.com/trailers/lions_gate/aloneinthedark/

For the love of god....Why?...:hopping:
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Offline Nico

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Reply #1 on: January 09, 2005, 01:31:43 pm
Saw it a couple weeks ago. Decided to forget about it.
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Offline Dark_4ce

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Reply #2 on: January 09, 2005, 01:40:28 pm
Even the monster(s) look like direct rape/ripoffs of H.R Gieger's ALIEN. Bah!
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Reply #3 on: January 09, 2005, 02:13:05 pm
Too resident evily.
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Reply #4 on: January 09, 2005, 04:53:44 pm
1/ isn't it odd they have ripped of the Res Evil films, when the Res Evil games ripped off Alone in the Dark? (pretty much)
2/ Did they license anything other than the name and the main character?  I didn't really play the games, but IIRC they were never about monsters and SWAt teams......
3/ Anyone read the book The Relic (not the piss-poor movie adaptation of it)?  Looks like they nicked a fair bit of the story of that, too.........
 

Offline Rictor

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Reply #5 on: January 09, 2005, 05:03:03 pm
OK, guys, uhm you do realize this is Uwe Boll, right? He's the Derek Smart of the film world.

*shakes head*

and I used to like Christian Slater movies.
 

Offline aldo_14

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Reply #6 on: January 09, 2005, 05:06:52 pm
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Originally posted by Rictor
OK, guys, uhm you do realize this is Uwe Boll, right? He's the Derek Smart of the film world.
 


Again?!!

****ing hell.........

Let's have a look at the mans [ur=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0093051/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj0wfHE9dXdlIGJvbGx8aHRtbD0xfG5tPW9u;fc=1;ft=5]resume[/url];
[q]# Far Cry (2006) (announced)
# Hunter: The Reckoning (2006) (pre-production)
# Bloodrayne (2005) (post-production)

# Alone in the Dark (2005)
# House of the Dead (2003) [/q]
 

Offline Rictor

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Reply #7 on: January 09, 2005, 05:13:25 pm
and people wonder why game to movie conversions suck. Any movie is bound to suck if you leave it in the capable hands of that thing.

I hear they're also doing a marvelous job of completely ruining the Doom movie, so I guess that leave Splinter Cell which I must admit I don't have high hopes for, being Tom Clancy and all.
 

Offline aldo_14

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Reply #8 on: January 09, 2005, 05:40:06 pm
But who the **** hires this guy?  How much drugs would you have to take to think he could actually direct?
 

Offline pyro-manic

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Reply #9 on: January 09, 2005, 05:46:12 pm
Ah, but he makes movies (I repeat, movies, not films) that appeal to the "Hur hur! Tits and 'sploshuns! Me like!" audience. Hence, they make studio execs lots of money....
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Reply #10 on: January 09, 2005, 05:55:09 pm
The Resident Evil movies were surprisingly good IMO.

And.... Far Cry: The Movie? What's it gonna have, realistic water???
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Offline Turnsky

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Reply #11 on: January 09, 2005, 06:09:19 pm
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Originally posted by Sandwich
The Resident Evil movies were surprisingly good IMO.

And.... Far Cry: The Movie? What's it gonna have, realistic water???


:lol:  maybe they'll have realistic acting. :p
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Offline BlackDove

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Reply #12 on: January 09, 2005, 06:16:29 pm
Man, what an asspizza with extra fag.

Gaybar trailer
Gaybar story
Gaybar director

Gay movie.
 

Offline Night Hammer

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Reply #13 on: January 09, 2005, 06:34:57 pm
they need to make an MGS live action movie


but not this guy
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Offline dan87uk

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Reply #14 on: January 09, 2005, 07:42:13 pm
They are also making Final Fantasy VII : Advent Children

will be much better than Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, that film was absolute S*** a disgrace to the final fantasy game series, but with fans's fave being continued (FF7) then it has a lot to live upto, still will be better than FF:TSW tho

http://www.adventchildren.net/

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Offline Dark_4ce

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Reply #15 on: January 10, 2005, 02:29:59 pm
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Originally posted by aldo_14
1/ isn't it odd they have ripped of the Res Evil films, when the Res Evil games ripped off Alone in the Dark? (pretty much)
2/ Did they license anything other than the name and the main character?  I didn't really play the games, but IIRC they were never about monsters and SWAt teams......
3/ Anyone read the book The Relic (not the piss-poor movie adaptation of it)?  Looks like they nicked a fair bit of the story of that, too.........


/1 Yes it is.

/2 I think the whole thing is licenced, for Alone in the Dark 4. And they never were action oriented games. And no swat.

/3 Yeah, I've read it and its sequel as well as all the other books the authors have written, pritty damn good stuff. But now that you mention it, it does have some similarities to the book.

Its actually quite depressing to see that a directors resume consits of nothing but game to film movies. Nothing original. Nothing of his own devising, all movies made for pure cash. *shudder* Even Derek Smart had an original title (albeit not a very good one, but atleast he tried)
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Offline Andreas

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Reply #16 on: January 10, 2005, 02:39:14 pm
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Originally posted by dan87uk
They are also making Final Fantasy VII : Advent Children

will be much better than Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, that film was absolute S*** a disgrace to the final fantasy game series, but with fans's fave being continued (FF7) then it has a lot to live upto, still will be better than FF:TSW tho

:o If they would make a movie about Final Fantasy Tactics, then I would be interested. ;)
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Offline Ransom

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Reply #17 on: January 10, 2005, 02:49:26 pm
I actually liked Spirits Within, even though it had little to do with FF. Also liked the RE film, but the second one sucked. This film just doesn't look like having much to do with the games at all.

At least the films of Prince of Persia (script by Jordan Mechner) and Silent Hill (Team Silent having as much influence as possible) still have potential.
 

Offline Ford Prefect

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Reply #18 on: January 10, 2005, 04:39:34 pm
You guys are so picky. I love all these movies because I expect them to be bad. I enjoy them on a shallow level.
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Offline aldo_14

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Reply #19 on: January 10, 2005, 04:52:04 pm
Ah, but isn't Uwe Boll the guy who mixed in actual game footage into the House of the Dead movie?
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