House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.

Uwe Boll

Categorized in : House Games Rights

A lot of the main audience thinks video game-based movies are always horror movies but it's totally not true. In video games you have adventure, sci-fi, horror, action and even comedy. I think that people should accept more that video games are kind of like the best-selling books of the new generation.

adventure book thinking

I think without the harsh critics, I would maybe have not made progress. From BloodRayne on, I spent more time and money on the development.

harsh progress thinking

I want to be like, "Look at Postal like Quentin Tarantino did it. Brainwash yourself and convince yourself that Tarantino did it. Forget my name and enjoy the 100 minutes and then write your review."

tarantino writing forget

As a filmmaker, I get compared to people who have no clue how to do anything, but because of some Internet writing, it looks like they would actually be better filmmakers. I think this is absurd.

writing people thinking

There are a lot of idiots on the Internet getting a lot of attent... by Uwe Boll

There are a lot of idiots on the Internet getting a lot of attention.

idiot internet attention

I think a lot of people don't take you seriously if they hear it's a video-game-based movie, and a lot of press people don't write about you. With BloodRayne, a lot of serious newspaper people didn't actually even see the movie. They went online to see other reviews, and then wrote their own. I think comic-book-based movies have a better image. We see it with 300, Sin City, Spider-Man - they are A-list features, and video-game movies are B-list.

writing people thinking

The thing is, I think as a director or a writer or whatever, you have to have a vision. And you have to be maybe sometimes too early, somewhere.

vision directors thinking

We work very cost effective and I sell my movies in 100 territori... by Uwe Boll

We work very cost effective and I sell my movies in 100 territories on my own.

movies own my-own work

Take the hardcore gamers. The characters are way more real in the world of hardcore gamers who have played the game for hundreds of hours. They have the movie in their heads, they've built it on their own. These guys are always very disappointed in the movies.

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