Cinematic disasters of our time

[lederhosen]

It takes real talent to make a video-game adaptation disastrous enough to stand out from the crowd, but BloodRayne seems to have managed it.

The fact that it's yet another VG adaptation directed by Uwe Boll is an obvious strike against it. The fact that Boll hired real prostitutes for one scene because they were cheaper than actors doesn't inspire confidence, either.

But all that rather pales into insignificance against a computer error that resulted in making and distributing prints for 7,400 cinemas instead of the film's target of 1900 - the extra prints look like costing about $27 million, more than the entire $25m production budget.

And in the end, only half of the 1900 cinemas who were supposed to get the prints are actually showing it; it pulled in just $1.2 million in its first weekend.

cleolinda points at this since-deleted Wikipedia entry which claims that the industry's nickname for Uwe's production company is "Bialystock and Boll". It's beginning to look pretty plausible... Edit: See also this piece on the same subject.

(And looking at IMDB, he appears to be set to make a Hunter: the Reckoning adaptation, too. I can hear the WoD fans whimpering from here...)

Exercise yesterday: 20 km, plus 5 km the other day, = total 65 km/40 miles. Past first Black Rider, hobbits currently singing, one more mile until second Black Rider and first appearance of elves. RotK is a good exercise movie; I picked up Heat, which should be a good replacement, although I think pedalling through the entire 260 minutes in one session might be a bad idea.

Comments

[sclerotic-rings.livejournal.com]

Well, I look at the glass being half-full: at least someone learned from House of the Dead and gave the writing job to someone other than Mark "The Al Bundy of Fandom" Altman.

BloodRayne

[lirion.livejournal.com]

There is a lovely vitriolic review of said film here: http://www.livejournal.com/users/howardtayler/145626.html

Being pointed at said review was the first I'd heard of it.

[velvetink.livejournal.com]

oh you have reminded me to get back on my exercise bike. It sits in front of the tv - alone the last few months just leering at me. :( I was up to doing 25-30kms in one sitting, but know if I tried that now I'd have jelly legs for a week.