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ukimalefu wrote:

Bat wrote:

Even The Battle Cat, a big fan of The Rock, thought it sucked.

That's because it was Doom. He likes Marathon. 

He loves Marathon, but no one is limited to one game. And he likes action movies generically, and IIRC quite liked Hellboy. No Marathon Marine there. By your logic, he could only like a movie that hasn't and won't be made.

Look it up; a thread a few years ago in Off-Topic. Anyway...

Back in May, Variety's Marc Graser reported on "Rush Hour" director Brett Ratner's new company Brett Ratner brands and its first (and as of then, only) client, Activision, for which the firm produced several ads that ran during "American Idol."

At the time, Ratner told Variety that he wants to make movies based on games, and as we've already reported, he's currently attached to Universal's "God of War" adaptation.

Now via MTV Multi-Player, we find out that he had another project in mind: "Guitar Hero: the Movie." Apparently the auteur has been working his connections over at Activision, but to no effect:

I'm trying to convince them, but why would you have a movie screw up such a huge franchise? Not that I would make a bad movie.

Brett Ratner wants to make a Guitar Hero movie

Well the first Max Payne ads are on TV now. Looks cool but a little worried that it's a month away and still saying the film isn't rated.

NightCougar_37 wrote:

Doom wasn't that bad. Was a bit more Resident Evil in story and it needed more FPS moments. In all the entire movie had just a few seconds of FPS moments near the end. Kind of a let down.

The movie really biffed it when they decided to forgo the demons from hell story line in favor of a tired zombies in space theme.

Nothing fresher than a 'demons from hell' theme. Beats space zumbies anyday.

This link is too good...

From the video at MovieSet, here's the response in its entirety. Yes, it's riddled with run-on sentences and hideous grammar -- warning, salty language ahead:

"Hi, here's Uwe Boll, and I have a statement to make about that internet petition. There's a petition out, 'Stop Uwe Boll,' and I said like 1 million people on the petition, I stop actually making movies. I want that there's a petition out there, like a pro-Boll petition, and I expect a million votes pro-Boll. I hope somebody would set it up and you all start signing it, because look: I'm not a smurfing retard like Michael Bay or other people running around in the business, or Eli Roth making the same smurfy movies over and over again. If you really look at my movies, you will see my real genius, you know? And if you go on May 23 and Postal, you will see that I deliver a movie what nobody else delivered in the last 10 years -- what is way better as all that social critic George Clooney bullsmurf what you get every smurfing weekend. So you have to really wake up and you have to see me what I am. I'm the only genius in the whole smurfing business. Goodbye."

Boll Responds to 'Stop Uwe' Petition

Also

Don't everyone rush out to buy it at once, but we've received word that Uwe Boll's Postal is now available on DVD. That's right, now you too can own the film that's being hailed as "one of the best films of all time" by Uwe Boll, and "a master class in botched editing" by more authoritative reviewers.

The movie hits stores today for $26.99 for both the rated and unrated versions. Extras include commentary from Uwe himself, deleted scenes, some featurettes, and a copy of the PC version of Postal 2 in case you missed it five years ago. For those who want it in hi-def, the Blu-ray edition will be going for $34.99. Check out what a few of our previous and current editors had to say about the flick and grab some popcorn. It's going to be a long night with Uwe.

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3169598

As much as I dislike Uwe Boll movies, I have a feeling he's right about the Postal movie.  Really looking forward to this one.

The thing is, he's basically correct about a large segment of Hollywood.  The problem is, he's delivering the same derivative trash on a lower scale.

I can only hope he's joking.

He has a choice to buy them or not. If he wouldn't buy them, others would and maybe we wouldn't have this petition.

Ya, glad Blizz and M$ have a lick of sense .

Steyr AUG wrote:

After seeing the second Max Payne trailer, it actually doesnt look half-bad.

I'm basically imagining it as a spin off from Departed. Maybe not as well directed or written, but seeing Mark Whalberg shoot things is entertaining enough.

Turns out it was pretty meh, not horrible, just not as good as I was expecting. Two people who hadnt played the game thought it was pretty good tho.

Sounds like I called it then.

ScifiterX wrote:

Fox is bringing the Payne.

One has to wonder if it's gonna bring the pain as well.

Not a hell of a lot but honestly I almost never listen to reviews as they seem to be nothing more than ads or hatchet jobs anymore.

MacZiMiZer wrote:

I'd say quite the opposite, I couldn't get past the first 30 minutes

as someone else at rottentomatoes said "A movie that cares much more for poetic choreography in explosive gunfights than gaping lapses of logic in a flimsy crime narrative."

I just can't even fathom how they came up with half of what happened, why they went -sort of- with the plot of the first Max Payne rather than Max Payne 2, or even doing something in between, why they left out Vlad, somehow Mona Sax became russian, or some form of slavic (for no apparent reason)

And yes she had a twin, though they weren't twins in the movie, but I don't expect them to hire out double mint employees for it.

There weren't any long lines, I felt no emotion from any of the acting, and it almost seems like they paid everyone to half just stand slightly to the side of center camera staring in slight confusion/anger

No link between scenes, which is ironic since any scene you can watch, and know the past and future that goes along with it, but in a bad way that's like a maze you've been through too many times to forget.

It started out down hill by not immediately explaining why max payne was the way he was and continued the suck by not making him undercover, not including the mob connections, no russian connection, poor character development along with a whole host of other issues.