Every so often a movie comes along that just boggles the mind with its stupidity and lack of any redeeming quality. House of the Dead was one such movie. Saw it, hated it. Therefore, I was amazed that someone actually made a sequel, HOD 2. I decided to stick my head in the cinematic woodchipper yet again, since occasionally the second generation can outdo the first.
I need a lie down. It had some nice female eye candy in Emmanuelle Vaugier and Victoria Pratt, and I guess some male candy in Ed Quinn but that’s barely it. It just…ugh. Ow my head. And a third is already planned. Why?! :eek:
And what other abominations have you seen that you can warn us away from, before it’s too late?
Crap action horror films like that, especially the ones with name recognition and reasonable production values do very good business on DVD, which is where a lot of the money is these days. Check out the DVD monthly top 10 rental titles some time; it’s both illuminating and depressing: rubbish like Deuce Bigalow 2 or a “Steven Seagal/some rapper I’ve never heard of” action flick are always near the top.
And the reason House of the Dead was made in the first place? The same reason Uwe Boll makes any video game licence film - he gets crazy German tax breaks for films that tank.
I almost hate to ask, but…what else have they killed, recently? I mean, are they axeing any project they can just to fatten their pocketbooks, or did they quietly save the world from something like Disney’s Dixieland Resort and Dumbo II: Die, Dumbo, Die?
From Wikipedia:
German tax laws used to allow 100% of investments in movies owned by German studios to be written off for tax purposes; investors only paid taxes on any profits. It wasn’t just Boll; it was every German studio.
The tax haven got the axe back in January; it’ll be interesting to see if Boll gets any more investors.
No, they’re squashing shit happy-meal projects out a weird notion that Disney should be making decent movies instead of just marketing tie-ins: one of the first things they did was kill off Toy Story 3. Hurrah and huzzah, I say.
“A nymphoid barbarian in dinosaur hell”, “Sgt. Kabukiman, N.Y.P.D.” and other Troma motion pictures.
By the way, Gnomeo and Juliet has been cancelled. I wonder why? It would have been a great competitor for Manos: the hands of fate and Plan 9 from outer space.
Firstly “Toy Story 3”. They’re also trying desperately to fix what’s wrong with a movie called “Meet The Robinsons”. And there’s some back and forth going on with “Rapunzel Unbraided” which was going to be all 3D, then it kind of got lost a bit and might be 2D and 3D, and I dunno. It needs help.
Disney Animation was in a serious crisis, really. I hope Pixar can actually fix things.
I actually kind of wanted to see that, if only because was supposed to star Ewan McGregor and Kate Winslet and I’ve been DYING for them to be in a movie together. Even if it was only animated.
AFAI can see that’s still no reason to release it. Why not just do a “Director’s Cut” on DVD or something? Just the shorts from that movie are enough to make the left side of my face go numb…