I'd wager that, nine times out of ten, directors don't set out to make a bad movie. Nobody in their right mind wants to fail. Unfortunately (or quite fortunately, depending on your perspective), Uwe Boll has never been in a right state of mind.
A couple of years ago, a documentary entitled Tales from the Script was released. It gathered a number of high-profile and lesser-known screenwriters to share their industry experiences, and among the guests was Guinevere Turner, the writer of Uwe Boll's BloodRayne. She describes her time on the project and lavishes praise upon Boll for his pleasant professionalism and open development schedule...
Hell no! She can't stand the f*cker! She sent a first draft -- a first draft -- of the script to Boll in the hopes of gathering feedback for the necessary revision, but he was all like, "Nope! This is the tits! We're going with what we have!" Then he cut 80% of the material and had the actors fill in the blank space like a big ol' Mad Libs. I'm surprised that Ms. Turner could sit trough the interview without frothing at the mouth.
However, I'm wary of her final remark, as I doubt some people will appreciate the comparison.
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Uwe Boll.... i cannot believe that he made videogame movies.... i mean, his work is not just bad, it's plain offensive , while i can like other videogame films ,even love other videogame films, he shouldn't even be doing movies.
The worst movie I've ever seen in my life was House of the Dead. It was just horrible, and not in a good way.
The shame about Bloodrayne is that I really enjoyed the first game, and I like the character a lot, so it would have been awesome if someone with any kind of talent had handled the film rights.
Several years ago, on Something Awful, the guy who wrote the first draft to Alone in the Dark had a similar experience; which he explained (and apologised for) in jaw dropping detail.
I used to love talking shit about this guy... Then I saw videos of him beating the crap out of internet fanboys... So, I continued to talk shit about him.
Oh, yeah! Thank you for posting this because I've just hunted down a totally legit copy of this Documentary. I'm very interested to hear more horror stories about the industry I once - and to some extent still do - wanted to be part of!
She's quite an attractive writer! As a "fan" of Uwe Boll films that loves watching them with his director's commentary on ("Dis iz de pahrt uv ze film where I put in ze boobies to make zee film seksay!"), it's cool to hear the process (or lack there-of) to his movies.
Being paid is one thing. Having your name in the credits of a disaster is another all together. The success of projects one has a hand in generally directly affects ones ability to get another good job. If you're a scriptwriter, and a movie gets slated for having a crap script, it's not going to have a great time getting new job offers.
tl;dr: Germany has some tax loophole where if an investor puts money in a movie and it flops, the lost investment becomes tax deductible if the movies are made by a german or something.
Sound familiar? A german which pretty much guarantees a flopped movies, who works in a genre that delivers pre-made stories you can write a script around?
And still, somehow keep getting larger and larger budgets for his movies?
I just found out that I have been pronouncing his name wrong all these years. I thought it was Ooo-wee, not Ooo-vee, which is doubly embarrassing since I took 2 semesters of German in undergrad.
At first I despised Uwe Boll but by now, I pretty much think he is a evil genius. I mean, he invited critics to a show boxing match and beat the crap out of them...that's hilarious. He also said, most hollywood action movies are as bad as his own movies and besides the higher CGI budget he is absolutely right.
Watch 'Darfur', a Boll movie about the genocide in that country, it's gruesome to watch but probably the one of the most true-to-fact film adaption of a topic that horrid...Boll is quite capable of making good movies.
As a Cult/B-Movie fan, I love Bloodrayne. I was LMAO throughout the movie at the drunk actors hamming things up, and it's got MEAT-Mother-Fucking-LOAF in it!!! Hellz yeah!
People need to re-watch this train wreck with their brains turned off and just enjoy it for the crazy spectacle it is.
Thing about screen writing though is that you can write something, and it be revised, and rewritten (even by numorous people other then yourself) and 80% of the end product of that script won't make it into the movie, or resemble what was written.
Scripts -specially today in the improv heavy film making world of Judd Apatow's and even Robert Downey Jr's (Iron Man 1 is said -by Jeff Bridges, mind you- to be mostly improv, they barely had a working script to work from)- are just a guideline really. Rewrites happen on set, or they find something they thought would work fine just falls flat in editing, and things get changed. Its just how the process works.
I see what this woman is saying, I really do, we all know Boll is... Special,and we really didn't need her telling us that.. but she has to know that once any form of that script left her hands it was up to who ever was making to choices to do what they want with it -unless its in your contract that you have special creative control, you're off the case after its out to the studio/director. As long as she got paid for the work she did, she doesn't have any more claim to criticism of the movie, then any of us do.
I watched Rampage. It was totally worthless. Apparently, mr. Boll was trying to make a statement. What that statement was, is unclear.
The tagline for the film was something like: "admit it. Youve thought about it."
Have I thought about going on a murderous rampage because someone screwed up my coffee order? No, you fucking idiot. I have not.
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She critiques the movie as "it blows".
The worst movie I've ever seen in my life was House of the Dead. It was just horrible, and not in a good way.
The shame about Bloodrayne is that I really enjoyed the first game, and I like the character a lot, so it would have been awesome if someone with any kind of talent had handled the film rights.
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tl;dr: Germany has some tax loophole where if an investor puts money in a movie and it flops, the lost investment becomes tax deductible if the movies are made by a german or something.
Sound familiar? A german which pretty much guarantees a flopped movies, who works in a genre that delivers pre-made stories you can write a script around?
And still, somehow keep getting larger and larger budgets for his movies?
Watch 'Darfur', a Boll movie about the genocide in that country, it's gruesome to watch but probably the one of the most true-to-fact film adaption of a topic that horrid...Boll is quite capable of making good movies.
People need to re-watch this train wreck with their brains turned off and just enjoy it for the crazy spectacle it is.
Scripts -specially today in the improv heavy film making world of Judd Apatow's and even Robert Downey Jr's (Iron Man 1 is said -by Jeff Bridges, mind you- to be mostly improv, they barely had a working script to work from)- are just a guideline really. Rewrites happen on set, or they find something they thought would work fine just falls flat in editing, and things get changed. Its just how the process works.
I see what this woman is saying, I really do, we all know Boll is... Special,and we really didn't need her telling us that.. but she has to know that once any form of that script left her hands it was up to who ever was making to choices to do what they want with it -unless its in your contract that you have special creative control, you're off the case after its out to the studio/director. As long as she got paid for the work she did, she doesn't have any more claim to criticism of the movie, then any of us do.
The tagline for the film was something like: "admit it. Youve thought about it."
Have I thought about going on a murderous rampage because someone screwed up my coffee order? No, you fucking idiot. I have not.