Our old friend's struck again...

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TheRuleofThirds

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Well, I've been seeing commercials for that movie Bloodrayne. Like the cinematography looks all right, but to listen to the trailer and to watch its editing, it came off like a straight-to-video movie. Then Michael Madsen says some line that has incredibly bad delivery and then the release date's shown and it's actually got a rating, like it's going to be in theaters!

So I think maybe I'm misjudging a book by its cover. Maybe it was just unfortunate that good filmmakers weren't able to get the budget they needed to make a decent movie and Mike's lines were taken out of context. So then I go to IMDb to see how many stars folks had given and to see who directed it. Lo and behold...it's our old friend, Uwe Boll.

For those of you who don't remember, he conned a poster here or an acquaintance of a poster. Whoever it was...Boll was really finnicky about what he wanted in the script our boy was recruited to write. And...if I remember correctly, when payday came...Boll was nowhere to be found and no payments for services rendered were made.

So yeah...not that you were gonna see Bloodrayne anyway, but do try to send a message that con-art isn't real art.
 

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Sounds too much like an urban legend -- "a poster here or an acquaintance of a poster"? Oh it must be true, I heard it from my aunt who heard it from her friend's third cousin who heard it from her hairdresser. I'd prefer to see names, dates, quotes, confirmation of fraud from the injured party. This must be on the net somewhere.

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You don't remember reading about this on here, Derek? It was a few months ago when the post was made. I tried searching for it, but couldn't find anything. That's the only time I've ever heard of Uwe Boll and I doubt I've thought about him since.
 

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TheRuleofThirds said:
You don't remember reading about this on here, Derek? It was a few months ago when the post was made. I tried searching for it, but couldn't find anything. That's the only time I've ever heard of Uwe Boll and I doubt I've thought about him since.
There was a post on one of the screenwriting boards that pointed to this article:

http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2649

Is that the one you mean ?

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if you think bloodrayne looks bad, you should see th trailer for boll's next opus after that -- dragon siege. oh my.

i don't remember the thread in question, but the fella might be better off to not be associated with this hack.
 
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