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post #1 of 59
9/6/04 at 12:59am
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Just because.
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post #2 of 59
9/6/04 at 2:29am
you can't make me
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post #3 of 59
9/6/04 at 3:44am
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Just to get it out of the way.

If you watch Alone in the Dark in theatres, guess what? You'll be Alone, in the Dark.

Had to be said.

I wonder how many screens this will be unleashed upon, I also ponder how many other movies he'll rip off during the duration of this "film"
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post #4 of 59
9/10/04 at 12:05am
I just hope the trailers go:

"CHRISTIAN SLATER IS-"
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post #5 of 59
9/10/04 at 12:24am
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Originally Posted by RegVelJohnson
I just hope the trailers go:

"CHRISTIAN SLATER IS-"
"UWE BOLL, director of House of the Dead bring you the next step in horror!"

You just have to wonder what film is going to get stuck with the trailer for this.
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post #6 of 59
9/16/04 at 1:33am
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Uwe Boll on imdb: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0093051/board/nest/11689147

The mind breaks.
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post #7 of 59
10/4/04 at 7:20pm
I'm going to see it when it comes out. It's the 'trainwreck' effect, it's just too horrible to look away.
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post #8 of 59
10/5/04 at 6:08pm
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I know AICN isn't exactly 100% rock solid proof but......

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I just got back from a test screening of Alone in the Dark, the latest crap-fest from Uwe Boll. This is quite possibly the worst film I've seen period and I used to work for Troma. Now once again we have a video game movie that completely throws out everything that made the game great. They take a game that was a very atmospheric story, and load it with guns, and Aliens style action. I'm not going into what's wrong with the film cause that would take way too long, suffice as to say that everything is wrong with this film. This film was manic from point A to Z, it starts with a high action chase scene/kung fu fight, then it trys to be creepy and then into an Aliens style gun fest. On top of that they randomly added zombies and aliens! Frankly that new Burger King ad with the guy in the Burger King costume is much more frightening, I'd be scared if I woke up with that staring at me. What's worse was that myself and a friend were selected for a focus group. If you ever thought that a focus group was for making a flawed film better, flush that notion down the toilet, when they found out that we rated the film poor we were not allowed to take part in the focus group, the screening people then ran franticly around trying to find anyone who thought this movie was anything above fair. On a lighter note Uwe Boll was in attendance, while we were waiting for my friends ride he exited the theater where we thanked him for that "piece of crap film" and for "killing our childhood".
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post #9 of 59
10/10/04 at 10:25pm
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Originally Posted by Darth_Chocula
Did I just hear someone say Uwe will one day win an Academy Award...?
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post #10 of 59
10/17/04 at 2:46am
New trailer
http://www.boll-kg.de/neues/aitd_trailer_large.htm
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post #11 of 59
10/17/04 at 3:51am
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Nah that's been around for a while, still can't believe that underhand throw.

Really, bad writing, acting, direction, music...........Uwe Boll is gonna be makin a trip to the razzies.
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post #12 of 59
11/3/04 at 3:42am
Uwe Boll Interview: Part Two
http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/561/561884p1.html

Uwe implile that "Alone in the dark" review on aintitcool.com is fake.

[ He wrote [that] I was at the test screening and talked to the people… I'm in Romania shooting BloodRayne! ]
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post #13 of 59
11/4/04 at 9:54pm
Uwe Boll's "ALONE IN THE DARK" will open wide in US on 1/28/05.

I am not 100% sure which company is this movie's US distributor, but I will let you know if I have a answer.
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post #14 of 59
11/5/04 at 12:56am
It is confirmed!

US distributor is Lions Gate.
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post #15 of 59
11/5/04 at 1:16am
http://www.screendaily.com/story.asp?storyid=19815
Lions Gate locks up trio for North America


Jeremy Kay in Santa Monica 05 November 2004 04:00



Lions Gate Films has finalized its deal for North American theatrical and pay TV distribution rights to A Good Woman. In separate deals, the noticeably acquisitive indie also secured all North American rights to Uwe Boll's video game horror adaptation Alone In The Dark as well as to Gianni Amelio's Le Chiavi Di Casa.

Directed by Mike Barker, A Good Woman is the adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s play Lady Windermere’s Fan and stars Helen Hunt, Tom Wilkinson and Scarlett Johansson. It was handled by London and Sydney-based sales company Beyond Films.

Tom Ortenberg, president of Lions Gate Films Releasing, and Hilary Davis, head of sales and acquisitions for Beyond, announced the deal on Thursday at the American Film Market in Santa Monica.

“Mike Barker and this cast deliver one of the best Wilde adaptations in years,” said Ortenberg. “The audience reaction at the Toronto premiere made me confident that this film has a winning combination of humor and drama played out on screen by some of the best actors working today.”

The deal was negotiated for Lions Gate by Jason Constantine, senior vice president of acquisitions, and Ortenberg. Davis negotiated on behalf of Beyond.

Alone In The Dark, which stars Christian Slater, Tara Reid and Stephen Dorff, is being pegged for a Jan 28 2005 nationwide release. Its story centres on a paranormal investigator who discovers an ancient cult connected to an army of demons.

Boll directed and produced the Sega game adaptation based on a screenplay by Elan Mastai, Michael Roesch and Peter Scheerer.

"Alone In The Dark is a perfect addition to our slate of horror/sci-fi genre films on the pulse of popular culture," noted Ortenberg. "Uwe Boll has taken a game with a voracious following and turned it into a film which completely stands on its own."

That deal was negotiated by Peter Block, Lions Gate's president of acquisitions, television and co-productions, Wendy Jaffe, vice president of business and legal affairs and both Ortenberg and Constantine, with Peter Safran, president of Brillstein-Grey, Uwe Boll and Karyn Edwards and Shawn Williamson of Bright Light Pictures on behalf of the filmmaker.

Gianni Amelio’s film, which is Italy's foreign language Oscar entry, was acquired from Lakeshore Entertainment. Its title literally translates as The Keys To The House.

Lions Gate plans a December release in New York and Los Angeles for the picture, which won the Cinema Avvenire, Pasinetti Award and Sergio Trasatti Award for Best Film at this year's Venice Film Festival.

Charlotte Rampling, Kim Rossi Stuart and newcomer Andrea Rossi star in the drama about a man who meets his handicapped son as a teenager for the first time.

"We are big supporters of foreign language film, and this is exactly the kind of international regional filmmaking we are passionate about bringing to audiences across the country,” said Ortenberg, who negotiated the deal along with Constantine and Wayne Levin, his executive vice president of business and legal affairs.

Rai Cinema, Achab Film and Lakeshore produced the picture and Lakeshore International is handling international sales.

This is the second co-production between Lakeshore and Rai, the first being Ermanno Olmi’s Singing Behind Screens. Lakeshore and the Italian public broadcasting network are also co-producing Amelio's next film The Missing Star, with shooting due to begin in China in spring 2005.
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post #16 of 59
11/5/04 at 11:34am
"Alone In The Dark is a perfect addition to our slate of horror/sci-fi genre films on the pulse of popular culture," noted Ortenberg. "Uwe Boll has taken a game with a voracious following and turned it into a film which completely stands on its own."

hahaha.
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post #17 of 59
11/7/04 at 7:40pm
It Lives!
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post #18 of 59
11/17/04 at 2:17am
Positive review
http://www.fangoria.com/fearful_feature.php
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post #19 of 59
11/17/04 at 2:30am
If the best they can muster is three sentences and the winning praise "It has Relic-style monster FX!" then color me unconvinced.
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post #20 of 59
11/17/04 at 3:24am
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I’m happy to report that this latest video game-cum-movie is actually an entertaining rollercoaster ride, loaded with RELIC-style creature FX, rousing fight scenes and nonstop action. Christian Slater, Tara Reid and Stephen Dorff do the requisite monsterbusting shtick, and the film moves so fast that you never have a chance to figure out what they are fighting and why
What a fool.

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Originally Posted by g-dude
If the best they can muster is three sentences and the winning praise "It has Relic-style monster FX!" then color me unconvinced.
I concur, this films looks terrible, you see them firing at boxes in the trailer? BOXES, nothing but BOXES!
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post #21 of 59
11/17/04 at 3:29am
Well, the other reviews seem interesting.
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post #22 of 59
12/9/04 at 10:10pm
US poster online

http://www.horrorchannel.com/dread/m...rticle&sid=549

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post #23 of 59
12/9/04 at 10:37pm
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Originally Posted by chans
That looks like a fanmade Tool album cover.
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post #24 of 59
12/10/04 at 3:30am
God I loved the 4th one... "The New Nightmare"

...that triple barreled shotgun was the shit!
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post #25 of 59
12/10/04 at 5:19am
I like that poster. A lot, actually.
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post #26 of 59
12/10/04 at 4:27pm
You think they'll have zombie-hounds and stuff?
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post #27 of 59
12/10/04 at 4:51pm
That's actually a very good poster, better than this film deserves
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post #28 of 59
12/10/04 at 4:59pm
Yeah psych, I think they'll have zombie-hounds and crocs and stuff...I think you're absolutely right on with that one...

I mean, cause who could forget those adorable hounds and those other creatures (the ones that disappeared) and their stupid immunity to normal bullets!
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post #29 of 59
12/10/04 at 5:08pm
Don't forget, it's Doctor now.
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post #30 of 59
12/11/04 at 12:44pm
Very reminiscent of Emerson Lake & Palmer's Brain Salad Surgery cover.
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post #31 of 59
12/19/04 at 2:15pm
Here's the video for the theme song of the movie. The song is Wish I Had an Angel, by Nightwish. Video is directed by dr. Uwe Boll and it has some clips from the movie. http://www.powow.com/vanillai/aitd/
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post #32 of 59
12/20/04 at 12:32am
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Very reminiscent of Emerson Lake & Palmer's Brain Salad Surgery cover.
I hear Uwe Bolls next project is a 2 hour 30 minute musical based on Tarkus.
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post #33 of 59
12/20/04 at 12:44am
Seeing as how Uwe Boll has secured Michael Madsen, Michelle Rodriguez, and Ben Kingsley for BloodRayne, how long before we see Julia Roberts and George Clooney in Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater with direction by Boll?

I mean, how does he do it? Reverse psychology? Hypnotism? Threats of violence?
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post #34 of 59
12/20/04 at 6:46am
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Originally Posted by T_Mike
I mean, how does he do it? Reverse psychology? Hypnotism? Threats of violence?

Three words....


pictures...

with...

sheep.
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post #35 of 59
12/23/04 at 8:20pm
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Originally Posted by chans
"OK, ve've finished editing....YOU!!! Ugly Girl!!"

"I'm your PA...can't you remember my...."

"YES , Yes, yes, no...Sarah, get me H.R. Giger, NOW!!"

"My name's Sharon, Doctor...And I've been phoning Mr. Giger for over a week..."

"SO VHY HASN'T HE GOT BACK TO ME?!?! ...You're fired..."

"What?"

"YOU"RE FIRED!!!!!!.................now can anybody here use an airbrush?"
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post #36 of 59
1/26/05 at 4:38am
In 2003, Artisan Pictures released (unleashed?) a property of staggering incompetence, the video game based HOUSE OF THE DEAD. Featuring a cast of neophytes eager for some desperate screentime, the wide release was accompanied by choruses of catcalls from those aware that it was a terrible film, the likes of which American screens had rarely seen. And now, to start off 2005, we have HOUSE’s director Uwe Boll’s latest, the videogame inspired ALONE IN THE DARK.

Beginning with the premise that an ancient race was on the verge of discovering some sort of “Shadow world” where demons lie, ALONE sinks fairly quickly into action territory. We are immediately greeted with the sight of down and out brooder Edward Carnby (a burnt-out Christian Slater), an unshaven, down on his luck “paranormal investigator” living in some abandoned warehouse of some kind (one of many of the film’s abandoned warehouses; it must be some sort of a record). It appears that people are after him, as evidenced by an early, random superpowered brawl on what appears to be the empty, lawless streets of modern Toronto.

After said fight with a possessed thug, Carnby heads to see his museum curator honey (Tara Reid, in some sort of stunt casting). What her mentor Professor Hudgens has failed to tell her, however, is that the artifacts she’s cataloguing for him, and the subsequent findings of Carnby, will only assist in opening the “shadow world” and unleashing a series of Lovecraftian ghoulies that will… systematically eat humanity, one bad actor at a time, from what I can surmise.

Some effort is made to connect the mysterious, violent happenings with Carnby’s youth, where the twenty kids at his orphanage were all implanted with slimy bug creatures in order to later assist the creatures in their world domination. This gives the beasts, eager to conquer the world, an army of twenty people. I repeat, twenty whole people.

For anyone who’s seen the cinematic accident that is HOUSE OF THE DEAD, let it be known that ALONE IN THE DARK is a step up. Nevertheless, it’s a massive staircase, and Uwe Boll remains at the bottom, wistfully staring up. His direction consists of drifting crane shots that capture the maximum amount of extras acting as bad guys, standing around, waiting to be shot by Stephen Dorff’s (BLADE, DEUCES WILD) puzzling paranormal SWAT team (and as an aside, why does the five foot nothing Dorff keep getting cast as tough guys?) Most action sequences feature a number of shots or even whole sequences stolen from better movies, including a bullet-time shot that actually seems to be referencing a similar moment in HOUSE OF THE DEAD. The whole thing’s made worse by a soundtrack more suitable to an aerobics class.

Still, for all Boll’s faults, the film’s weakest point is it’s screenplay. Penned by three monkeys named Elan Mastai, Michael Roesch and Peter Scheer, it’s packed with these bon mots: When asked to retrieve a deadly file, one character responds, “They’ll kill me if they find out… but let me check.” After the characters descend into a darkened cave complete with booby traps, ancient scrawls written on the wall and secret chambers, one character sees a corner and exclaims, “I don’t think we’re supposed to be here.” A few moments later, another responds, “Something tells me we’re not the first ones down here.”

At least there’s something bittersweet and telling about the mentality of a terrible filmmaker when eagle-eyed audience members spot the entire, untalented cast of HOUSE OF THE DEAD as soldiers in this film. There’s also something to be said about a film that spends a good ten minutes of screen time occasionally cutting over to a soldier ineptly working on a lights system only to die an unearned death as the lights are apparently destroyed. ALONE IN THE DARK is an old fashioned godawful mistake of a film, a horribly stupid mess in which the top secret heroes’ mission is to shoot everything and the bad guys’ plan is to kill everything, where logic, reasoning and intelligence go out the window. It closes with a coda familiar to anyone who’s seen the likeminded but far superior RESIDENT EVIL, its own ending a ripoff of DAY OF THE DEAD and Lucio Fulci’s THE BEYOND. What this really signifies is that Uwe Boll is a terrible filmmaker with a serious dearth of ideas. However, it’s up to audiences to realize that if they support this crap, the ending will only signify sequel potential. Please, make sure that anyone that spends their $10 to see this will be ALONE IN THE THEATER.
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post #37 of 59
1/26/05 at 5:19am
Damn fab you really outdid yourself. Unsurprisingly sounds like you were very bored by this film. Bet it was difficult going past three paragraphs there.

I'm genuinely curious how a Uwe Boll film can get theatrical distribution?
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post #38 of 59
1/26/05 at 5:25am
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I gotta say that poster looks like a Xenomorph shoved its head up someones ass.
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post #39 of 59
1/26/05 at 6:04pm
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I'm genuinely curious how a Uwe Boll film can get theatrical distribution?"
Because, incredible as it may seem,"House Of The Dead" actually turned a profit in it's theatrical release.

I think that a Boll film can get theatrical release is a monument to the stupidty of the human race, but as long as his shit fists turn a profit, he will get theatrical distribution.
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post #40 of 59
1/26/05 at 6:12pm
Thats amazing. Dark days to be a quality genre film lover I suppose.
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post #41 of 59
1/27/05 at 11:14pm
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Originally Posted by fabfunk
“paranormal investigator”
*thinks of Invader ZIM*
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post #42 of 59
1/28/05 at 2:56am
Well, from the reviews over at rotten.tomatoes.com , Alone is living down to expectations....
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post #43 of 59
1/29/05 at 10:27am
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Highlights of new IGN interview with Boll...........

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IGN FILMFORCE: Hey Uwe.

UWE BOLL: I'm driving to Wilshire Boulevard to go to an agency. I wanted to go to the press screening, but Lions Gate said, 'Press don't want to talk to the director.' It was funny. I've never heard this before. They said the director always tries to sell [and] press don't want this… So I accepted it.

IGNFF: So you were planning to come to the screening last night?

BOLL: (Laughs) I was not allowed to come.
He would've never made it out of that theatre if he went.

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Here's the thing, I always try to, [if you] say it negative, I steal from other movies
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BOLL: I think the movie's fast-moving from the beginning to the end, which is different from a lot of movies today. A lot of movies are too long. [Sometimes] boring. Our movie's not boring, it's entertaining. The people get the background. That's the reason that we did that beginning crawl, to be honest. After the test screening we did, we did two flashbacks in the beginning where we see the professor, we did a few voice-overs, we did the beginning crawl, we changed a little the editing of the action scenes. It improved in a way that I think it's not boring and I think it improved [how the people understand it] with that back-story. It's proven that a lot of people in the theater, they have problems in a lot of cases, if the movie has two plots or something, if a movie gets a little complicated, then it's too much for the audience.
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IGNFF: What reactions are you hearing to the film and what are your thoughts on this weekend's release? Are you nervous, excited? Are you going to check out crowd reactions?

BOLL: Yes, I'm going tomorrow to the theater. (Laughs) Don't tell it to the people, they will chase me and track me down and kill me. (Laughs) If they know that I'm in LA going to different screenings, they will try to get a hold of me. (Laughs)



Hurt your eyes by reading it here
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post #44 of 59
1/29/05 at 3:44pm
Eight of 10. Must be the only review of it's kind. In the whole net. Hm.
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post #45 of 59
1/29/05 at 4:39pm
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Originally Posted by Uwe Boll
It's really brutal and there is stuff in it, we have a really, really hot sex scene with Lokken where she is completely naked.
Okay, he's a perv director, and he's having Loken get fucked on screen. I'm paying for Bloodrayne.
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post #46 of 59
1/29/05 at 5:07pm
Yes, I paid $10 to see this on the big screen. Sure there were parts in the middle that dragged on a bit, but overall I was very pleased. Uwe Boll has outdone himself with this one for sure...FUNNIEST MOVIE EVER. First of all, it is one of the most incomprehensible movies I have ever seen, the opening (never-ending) text crawl had me baffled before the movie started. Also, it is indeed a "rollercoaster ride" of an experience...during the big action sequence in the museum, after about the 37 billionth cut I had that same queasy feeling I always get when I ride the Top Gun rollercoaster at Canada's Wonderland after eating, and standing in the sun in line for 2 hours...and being hit repeatedly in the stomach.

Seriously though, this movie CAN be enjoyed (in a MST3000, or Foywonder kind of way) if you have some friends along...and at least one of them is high. The only problem was the couple in front of us who did not enjoy our comments as much as we did. I feel bad, as I hate it when people talk (or "gab" if you will) while I'm enjoying some fine cinema...but C'MON! This was utter crap...why are you giving me dirty looks?? Are you enjoying this?? I'm sorry that your girlfriend is probably going to break up with you because you made her come see this, but it's not MY fault, I'm just trying to be productive here! Sorry!
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post #47 of 59
1/29/05 at 5:40pm
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Day 1: $845,000 at #13!

Boll states in that interview they estimated $8 million............HA.
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post #48 of 59
1/29/05 at 6:13pm
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BOLL: Yes, I'm going tomorrow to the theater. (Laughs) Don't tell it to the people, they will chase me and track me down and kill me. (Laughs) If they know that I'm in LA going to different screenings, they will try to get a hold of me. (Laughs)
Judging by the weekend estimates he probably ended up sitting there alone in the dark!

(RIMSHOT)

Seriously though, I will say this about Boll. After seeing this movie I no longer think he should be compared to Ed Wood. That's is not an accurate analogy. You want to know what Boll is? Uwe Boll is the MTV version of Bruno Mattei.
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post #49 of 59
1/30/05 at 9:41pm
Caught this on a 3:15 matinee this afternoon. There are two theaters in our town: A decent, 5 year old, 10-screen stadium seating theater (where I work in projection), and a 25 year old 3-screen shit-beater. AITD was, appropriately, playing at the old dump. There were 6 people in the auditorium on a rainy weekend afternoon, including my brother and I.

You know, it's probably because House of the Dead sucked so bad, and because the folks here and elsewhere have hammered it so bad, and because I knew the box office situation ($2.5 mil for the weekend) going in, therefore dropping my expectations through the floor, but I found it mildly enjoyable. Not as a good movie, but as a so-bad-it's-good, cheesy way. It WAS better than HOTD, which is not hard to be, but still. Oh, it was a bad, cheesy sci-fi B-movie. But because of my expectations it wasn't eye-raping bad.

Oh, and Tara Reid has an ironing board flat ass. Has this always been the case? This, and the fact that she kept her bra on during the sex scene, were both disapointing. She is a God-awful actress, the least she could do is show some (recently enhanced) tits.

If she had then perhaps the film could have made $2.6 million on the weekend.
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post #50 of 59
1/30/05 at 10:44pm
I am sure you are going to hear a lot of carny style hype about Loker and her Sex Scenes in "Bloodrayne", but with reality that a "R" is the most they will go for, don't expect much real lesbo action in j"BloodRayne".
And I am not joking in that they will try to sell the sex angle of "Bloodrayne". its' the only chance they have of not having another Boll Box Office disaster on their hands.
And if after what has happened with "alone,", Lion's Gate does acquire "Bloodrayne", some people need to be fired and quick...
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