YAY! (And Also YUCK!) UWE’s BACK!!

I disagree with with the opinion that Liotta's best work since Goodfellas was Grand Theft Auto Vice City. I thought he was great in Narc, and good in Cop Land, and The Rat Pack.

Anyway I saw Dungeon Siege yesterday. I am amazed at the incompetance of the film. ( Ninjas in that time period, in that part of the world?!) This film had so many unintentional laughs I lost count. Almost everyone in the cast either looked uninterested in the film, or angry to be in it ( Or both, like Burt Reynolds)  But the acting "Dis-honors" goes to Matthiew Lillard, who has to be seen to believed. Let's just say that Jim Carrey's Ace Ventura would tell him to "Tone it down, a little bit", and thank God the film wasn't in 3-D or half of the audience would have came in raincoats in preparation for everytime Lillard opened his mouth. I'm a fan of Ray Liotta, but the man seriously needs to get a new agent. However, I'm happy to say that "The Uwe Boll Actor curse" has finally been broken. There was a performance in it that I and the guy sitting in front of me dared call, in 100% sincerity "Pretty good". John Rhys Davis did a good job as the good wizard. So remember kids, if you have a horrible script that is going to be made into a film, get a Shakespearian actor to play at least one part, it will come in handy ( For referance see McDiarmid, Ian in Star Wars Episode 3).  Still, one decent performance is one more than in all of Uwe's other American films combined. (Well, I think, I never saw BloodRayne)

The bad news:
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale will have a third week in theatres.

The good news:
It will only be showing in 75 theatres, a drop of over 1,200 theatres from the previous week, according to Box Office Mojo.

I'm sad about this in a way.  ITNOTK's failure means that Postal may never be released in theatres in Los Angeles or New York. 

HeadRAZZBerry's review makes Uwe look like the worst thing to happen to video games since Atari refused to credit their developers. This angered the developers, so they started their own companies, causing many other people who had no idea how to make a videogame (like Quaker Oats) to get into the videogame business. They created a bunch of crappy videogames that were quickly returned. However, they weren't fast enough to return it to the factories before the company folded and dropped off the face of the earth. This left stores with a bunch of crappy games. So, they put them into bargain bins. Many gamers saw the cheap prices and bought them. They were disgusted by the udder crappyness of the games and many stopped gaming all together. Meanwhile, Atari was interested in releasing an American version of a Japanese game about a monkey named "Donkey" throwing barrels, by a little company called Nintendo. They were going to release it on the Atari 2600, when Coleco showed a demo of Donkey Kong on their (ill-fated) ADAM computer system. This made Atari executive Ray Kassar think that Nintendo was selling information to Coleco and cut themselves off from them. At the same time, Atari had released a bunch of outright bombs like E.T." and their bastardization of "Pac-Men". This caused the destruction of the Atari 2600. They could have rebounded with "Donkey Kong", but they severed ties with Nintendo. With a, formerly, respectable video game company in ruins, a bunch of crappy games at a cheaper price, and a lack of interest from the public the video game industry crashed. It was later recovered, with help from Nintendo. Uwe's gonna have to make 20 video game-based movies to measure up to that!