Movie thoughts and fiction updates.
Of the four Uwe Boll films I've seen, I think that this might be the worst. It's stiff competition, for sure, but there's something extra inept, amateurish, misguided, and unappealing about BloodRayne. All of Boll's staples are here from inexplicably unnatural dialogue to incredibly dull performances to incomprehensible action scenes to flat cinematography, it's all… Continue reading BloodRayne
Look! Uwe Boll made a merely bad film instead of a hideously awful one! He’s growing as an artist! This film doesn’t hold together well at all, but it’s less eye-rollingly stupid as either Postal or Alone in the Dark. I think a large part of that is that Boll didn’t actually write the script.… Continue reading Rampage
Oh, Uwe Boll. Not only were you terrible with comedy, you don't seem to understand the basics of horror/action filmmaking either. Or dialogue. Or human interactions. Alone in the Dark starts with an impossibly long text crawl that explains, in confusing detail, the world that the movie takes place in. The thing is, what's actually… Continue reading Alone in the Dark
I sort of understand the reason why, but I hate myself for it. I decided to watch a handful of Uwe Boll films. Just a few that I can easily watch without effort (there are a shocking number available on Amazon Prime), but I've instantly regretted this decision. Uwe Boll has said that Postal is… Continue reading Postal
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