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News by Ellie Gibson

31 January, 2006

Notorious movie director Uwe Boll has been nominated to receive the worst director award for game adaptation Alone in the Dark at this year's Razzies.

2006 will mark the 26th anniversary of the Golden Raspberry Awards, which are given out to celebrate the worst achievements in film as an alternative to the Oscars.

Boll isn't the only one who's up for an award - Alone in the Dark star Tara Reid has also been nominated for worst actress. The Rock is up for worst actor for his performance in the Doom movie.

None of this comes as much of a surprise - Alone in the Dark served only to back up the theory that movies based on videogames are never any good at all, and Doom wasn't much cop either.

But could things be about to change? After all, the Roger Avary-scripted adaption of Silent Hill is out this spring, and judging by the trailers it might actually be all right. However, Boll still has a seemingly endless number of videogame movies up his sleeve, including Dungeon Siege and Postal, so let's not get our hopes up.

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w00t
31/01/06 @ 14:20
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Uwe FTW!
Kami
31/01/06 @ 14:24
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The only time the world would WANT Uwe Boll to win an award...

Let's hope he wins it. He spent all that money on a trophy cabinet, may as well get something to put in there...

edit: And Silent Hill movie is looking something rather special. I did have a few doubts at the parallels you can make to the first game (Sharon/Cheryl, the initial car crash scene and the general concept) but I think this is deliberate and actually might work in its favour. It's certainly looking good... can't wait...
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Freek
31/01/06 @ 14:32
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Hope he doesn't go Verhoeven-style. When he won one for Showgirls he showed up, accepted the award, had a whole speech prepared, got massive aplause and respect for being such a good sport about it.
Boll doesn't deserve that.
smoison
31/01/06 @ 14:36
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Postal FOR EVA!!!
reality_cheque
31/01/06 @ 14:41
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Boll is probably going to love this, after all we know that he doesn't care about making good films.
Eldritch
31/01/06 @ 15:06
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While it's okay to nominate Boll for every conceivable category, Tom Cruise's nomination for "War of the World" is nothing but a sad joke. Okay, he's a bit of an arse and crazy as a shithouse rat, but his performance in that film (and in "Eyes Wide Shut") was great.
rodpad
31/01/06 @ 15:09
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I thought the Rock was pretty good in the Doom movie. To be honest, if it wasn't for his character and acting the film would be twice as bad as it already is.
Eldritch
31/01/06 @ 15:13
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Yeah, same sort of auto-nomination. It's like saying how shit Mark Hamill was in "Star Wars".
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31/01/06 @ 15:19
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Shame it's turned into a bashing of video game movies for the sake of it. Rock was serviceable. But yeah Boll does fully deserve this award.

BTW Silent Hill looks fantastic so far.
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reality_cheque
31/01/06 @ 15:23
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If you want to service the Rock, I'll leave that up to you... :P
Bitkari
31/01/06 @ 15:54
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Don't blame Boll for crappy game films, blame the companies that give him the contract to make the films in the first place.

Blame the publishers, and other entities that own the IP on the games and make the poor decision to green light these B-grade efforts.

They don't care about quality, they just want more game merch: game movies, game toys, game happy meals, etc.



AOFanboi
31/01/06 @ 16:29
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Didn't also Halle Berry appear to receive her Razzie for Catwoman? Saying something about putting it next to the Oscar she won for Monster's ball?
mastertigurius
31/01/06 @ 17:59
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I'll bet Uwe opened his nomination letter, and started dancing and shouting: "Yaaay! I'm getting an award! People love meee!".
How sweet to be an idiot.
Vin
31/01/06 @ 18:01
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The Razzie's are utter gash. And you really can't dispute Rocky's leadin' man talent.
Tomo
31/01/06 @ 18:18
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I'm with rodpad, Doom was alright by me.
Sko
31/01/06 @ 18:33
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You gotta really be going some for the Rock's performance to be the highlight of a film. Still, it was nice he refused the lead role.
Dirtbox
31/01/06 @ 20:19
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He's going for the triple!
admir
31/01/06 @ 21:13
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well i hope Boll wins.
why the hell was Tom C. nominated? he did a good job in War of the Worlds
Razz
31/01/06 @ 22:05
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:)
tengu
31/01/06 @ 22:09
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":)"

lollers
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01/02/06 @ 08:24
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AOFanboi: I reckon she realises how bad that film was, so thought she should at least try to look graceful about it :)

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