Tell me if you've heard this one before: A group of college-aged people head off into a remote part of the country in search of a good time. What they soon discover though is that an evil presence is also where they are and by the end of the film most - if not everyone - is dead.

I know. Shocking concept for a horror movie, right?

With that out of the way, it's hard to criticize House of the Dead for its lame, predictable plot. Every modern day horror film suffers from this all too common "story" and it's become so overused it's almost expected by viewers. This is another videogame movie from Uwe Boll, the same guy who has brought us Alone in the Dark, Postal, BloodRayne, and other terrible films...so it should come as no big surprise that this is a giant cinematic turd as well.

The problems with HotD lie in its development. For some reason Sega is used all over the place from a giant "Sega" banner being in one shot to actual clips of videogame footage from HotD being used as transitions between live-action scenes. When characters die the director even mimics the camera panning around the character like it does in the game. Basically, this is truly a videogame converted into a movie with absolutely no respect given to either medium. I'd like to know if Sega or Uwe is to blame because HotD just sucks.

The characters, like most of those found in schlocky horror films, are bland and forgettable. The plot focuses on a group of five yuppie twenty-somethings who are invited to go to a rave on an island. Not seeing anything even slightly bizarre about that location and being dumb enough to miss the ferry taking everyone there, they agree to pay the grizzled captain of a boat (randomly named Captain Kirk) $1,000 to get them there (one of the yuppies actually had $600 cash in his pocket).

On the way there the people already partying on the island are attacked in broad daylight in probably the least scary way ever shown on screen. Meanwhile, one of the guys gets seasick and vomits on his girlfriend's face. Once on the island the young college kids discover an empty party area with only a few bits of blood covered cloth around. Three of the five students go off to find out what happened while vomit boy and his gal-pal take the opportunity to get it on.

The kids who go off searching for others eventually find an old house and a few survivors inside. One of the survivors is the ex-boyfriend of the hot brunette in the group. In a crappy voiceover narration at the beginning of the film he says they broke up because "...he wanted to study and she wanted to fence." Okay, um..yeah, let's move on. So now the group of people (that group's number is up to six) return back to where vomit boy and girl were and find someone stuck in a tipped-over Porta-Potty...vomit boy. When he is let out by his friends, he is now covered head to toe in human waste. They laugh at him and ask where his girlfriend is. Out of nowhere she appears as a zombie, kills one of the students and then a cop appears out of thin air and blows the zombie's brains out.

So now the group is up to...oh hell. Does it matter? The movie just sucks. There's boobs, barf, beer, babes, blood, bullets and other bad thing things in this Boll b-movie and only mentally handicapped people will find this film entertaining.

As a videogame movie it has absolutely nothing to do with the game series it is based on and even the "house" is a pitiful interpretation (In the game you are a detective of sorts who shoots his was through a demon-filled mansion but in the movie you have college kids fighting standard ol' zombies near a wooden shack).

The movie then spirals even further down into nonsensical gibberish and plot developments when that hot brunette fights a zombie with a sword. Apparently entire lines of dialogue and characters were created just to add something the director wanted to see. Uwe's reasoning probably sounded something like this: "I want a zombie sword fight! Even though that isn't in the games let's just say the main girl character knows fencing and throw it in because swords are kewl and fun to film!"

The movie is a mess and has no redeeming qualities. The acting is sloppy, the characters are poorly cast, the special effects are laughably bad, the dialogue is typical toilet Boll quality and editing/pacing of the film is almost seizure-inducing (Uwe loves techno music and fast editing). There's even a huge gap in the plot because at the beginning you have a young girl talking on her cellphone but later in the film cellphones apparently can't be used on the island. It's as if no one even read the script before they made this film. 

Even as a zombie, b-movie flick the film falls short and will make the viewer either stop before its done and/or wish they hadn't wasted their time and money at all.

Overall: 1/10

Este juego recrea el "clasico" juego de tener que matar a los zombies que aparecen en nuestra pantalla, pero además agrega caracteristicas exclusivas de la consola de Nintendo para volverlo aun mas interesante.

Basicamente el juego era "on-rails" que quiere decir que tendremos que seguir un recorrido predeterminado. Conforme vayamos avanzando encontraremos diferentes formas de acabar con los zombies y demas enemigos pero cada uno tendra puntos de daño especifico, lo que quiere decir que tendremos un comportamiento diferente para cada enemigo dependiendo del lugar donde reciban un disparo. Aqui entra un gran soporte para el Wii Zapper, ahora si vas a matar y matar.

El juego detectara acciones especificas con el Wii Remote, por ejemplo lo sacudiras para "deshacerte" de algunos zombies que te esten atacando. Como es de esperarse, podras hacer combos que te daran puntos extras y desbloquearas nuevos items. Podras portar dos armas y cambiar entre ellas.

Tambien podras invitar un amigo y junto con el acabar con los enemigos en un modo cooperativo. Aqui dejamos algunas imagenes y pronto estaremos detallando mas información de este prometedor juego.

Fuente: GameKyo

Es "sencillo".

El modo de juego se basa en el teclado, digamos hay un muerto-no-muerto en pantalla con un conjunto de carácteres alfanuméricos sobre él, para asesinar al muerto ( ¿? )  tienes que escribir la palabra formada en el menor tiempo posible para tener un mejor rango.

Todo un despliegue de habilidad es terminar el juego con los créditos que te dan ( si alguien puede déjeme un comentario jajaja ).

Lo que más me gusta del juego es la innovación ofrecida, y que a pesar de no tener unos gráficos impresionantes te absorbe y es altamente adictivo, lo recomiendo bastante, en especial para aquellos que se quedan sin mouse, te estoy viendo Arumuj , ó aquellos que traicionan a sus amigos y dejan el AGE, verdad Volaverunt?

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Pass: KABULA

Pesa 100 megas y para descomprimirlo, sigan las instrucciones del bloc de notas.
Ah, y para que no se queden con las ganas, les dejo aquí un vistazo a los personajes JUARJUAR.  Cabe mencionar que el juego original fue hecho para el Dreamcast, consola que portan en la espalda.

2009 can't come quick enough after seeing this trailer. Prequel to the previous HOTD games, you play as Agent G (the protagonist of The House Of The Dead series) who is sent to investigate the strange goings on in a small town in Louisiana.

But who ever followed the story for a HOTD game? Just point and squeeze that trigger, then repeat...alot

Exclusive to the Wii and due for release sometime in 2009.

Exhibit A: The ramp of to TVs Fall Line Up! (Duh Dun nah nah nah, duh dun nah nah, Kish Kish)

Mondays (Gossip Girl), Tuesdays(90210) and Wednesdays(America's Next Top Model) this fall please don't plan to move me off my couch between the hours of 7-8p....it would take a lot!  

Gossip Girl is back for its long anticipated 2nd season, can i get an amen....alright.  I really just can't get enough of these spoiled rich kids sluting it up on the upper east side.  The clothes are ridiculously stylish for kids...because mind you these people are playing high schoolers and the situations are a little above and beyond dramatic/plausable...aka the Cougar secretly sleeping with Nate is the Duchess/step-mother to the love interest of Blair, who is Nate's ex and she is really/secretly in love with Nate's bff Chuck Bass who arranged for the Duchess to meet Blair and disapprove of her, but his plan backfired because Blair found Nate with the Cougar/Dutches/step-mother getting it on the the Library!  How, HOW! could you not get sucked into that juicy drama.  That was only the second episode of the season, and i didn't even mention the part where Serena and Dan get it on in the Jitney on the way back from the Hamptons.  As Austin pointed out, they joined the three feet club...get it...since they were in a bus not a plane... duh!  I'm not gonna lie gawker covered this much better than i did, but they did leave out the best line of the entire episode.  Blair, when revealing to Chuck his plan had failed says "I guess she (the Duchess/cougar/step-mom) recognized some of herself in me, or should I say I recognized someone in her."  Brilliant!  Makes Mondays so much more worth while now that it's back!

90210- Same Zip, All New Drama...and a little of the old residual drama is sprinkled in to add character.  If you haven't realized it by now the "Duh dun nah...." from earlier was the theme song.  I don't have as much to say about this as Gossip Girl, it's in it's first season.  I will say I LOVE IT!  I was the first one to be hesitant about this little gem coming back from retirement...yes, as a child i loved, loved, LOVED this show, and yes i realize i was a little too young to watch it but i totally did.  The new generation is just as cheese-o-rific as the old one.  Too bad when they did Saved By the Bell: The New Class it didn't have the same beginners luck.  Once they slut it up a little more it'll be GREAT...and i can already see it coming, i mean Brenda is back, bring out the claws sister!  OH and there is Ryan Matthews, the english teacher,  ouch!  He was on Dirt last season and i'm sad he won't be this time around but welcome to West Beverly Hills!  I'd love to give you a tour if you ever needed one.  

This leads me to Wednesday and ANTM- the season of the transgender model.  Personally i can't stand to hear most of the girls carry on conversations about how beautiful they are all the time, but i'm so addicted to the photo shoots!  This year i already have my favs and am thrilled to say the girl that got on my every last nerve was the first to go!  It will be interesting to see how far the transgender contender stays in the comp.  Her pictures are great and she's definitely not going to take crap from the other girls as horribly rude as some of them are.  This is just one of those moves that you're not sure how far Tyra will allow it to go to make a statement.  Another highlight thus far in the season is Tyra flat out said if she tried to book a fashion shoot for herself right now no one would taker her...thank you!  ...the first step to solving a problem....

Three shows have me in their clutches already!  What happens when The Office, Kath&Kim, Grey's, Lipstick Jungle(yeah i know but i've gotta give it another chance), Burn Notice, Dirt and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia get thrown into the mix!?!?  I don't have a DVR!!!!!  On top of the Television addiction with Fall also comes football, more importantly College Football!  AGH!  This Saturday is the big UT vs Arkansas game and i have to help a dear friend of mine pick out her wedding dress!  Do you think they'll have TVs set up at David's Bridal?  Why am I such a boy?  If that's not bad enough i'm totally in knots waiting for the NBA to kick things into gear (yeah October pre-season games!)  The Olympics were such a tease!

Sadly, that's not all.  This one, this one is just B-A-D BAD!  Not like my addiction to Diet Coke.  Nothing like my affinity for Halloween...which also is around the corner...the Halloween Superstore is now open!!!  Not even like my new love for the game of rummy...which i would like to play again and soon.  i'm not even sure if i can fully admit to this one!  What i will say is, it's not something i found on my own, it started off as a joke and now it's all kinds of blown up.  There may be a story line to a video game that i may be slightly addicted too...like i've spent at least an hour watching cut scenes from said video game on YouTube and would have probably stayed longer but the connection on my wireless sucks and they were taking to long to load.  THEN! i found out you can watch them all on DVD and i could get caught up through the current game.  What is a girl to do!!!!!  And there are those of you who are aiding this addictions, my dealers if you will...you know who you are.  This is an all new level of i-don't-know-what! I couldn't play a video game to save my life...unless of course it was guitar hero, rockband or house of the dead...i'm damn good at those.  It could be worse...but not by much...try not to tell everyone.  

Now that i have all of this consuming my time when am i going to get anything done in my real life?  Is this a case of pure escapism?  Probably... but eh...the fall won't last forever, i'm sure i'll eventually get the semblance to a real life back.  Until then, i hope your couch is a comfy as mine and if you have a DVR you're using it to it's full potential.

Recordemos que en Alemania tiene una estricta ley sobre los contenidos violento, muchos videojuegos son retocados, y otros directamente no salen en ese país.

Ya ocurrió con el juego de Microsoft/Epic, Gears Of War y ahora ocurre con los juegos de SEGA/Platinum Games, MadWorld y SEGA/Headstrong Games, The House of the Dead: Overkill.

Fuente: Nintendo Everything

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Yep, Wii – mimo swej całej syfnościo-śmieszności okazuje się coraz ciekawszym kawałkiem sprzętu. Komba złożone z takich maszyn grających jak PS2, X360, NDS i PC oferują na tyle gier dużych, skomplikowanych i czasochłonnych, że dla człowieka, który czasu ma coraz mniej – w zasadzie każdego z nas – Wii okazuje się ciekawą alternatywą, a nie tylko cichym uzupełniaczem. Gry takie jak nowy House prezentują rozgrywkę żywcem z salonu Arcade – reguły, których nie sposób nie załapać, polepszanie własnego skilla i multi. I fajnie. Po masie RPGów wszelkiej maści (cRPG,jRPG, dungeon crawlerów, rogalików, tRPGów, a nawet hRPGów!) nic więcej do szczęścia mi nie potrzeba. I na niewiele więcej gier miałbym czas. Gry arcade czują się dobrze na Wii – nie znajdzie się tutaj największych dokonań tego typu gier, a co dopiero sensownych bijatyk, lecz coraz większa ilość produkcji typu No More Heroes, Mad World, RE: UC czy właśnie zapowiedziany House – cieszy moją michę zamiast powodować rozpacz nad upraszczaniem dzisiejszych gier. Bo skomplikowanych i ambitnych pozycji wciąż wiele – wystarczy wiedzieć, gdzie szukać.

Sama gra oprócz klasycznej formuły serii, zaprezentuje jak najbardziej nie klasyczne klimaty. Zamiast eksperymentów naukowych, elementów sci-fic i postapokaliptyki dostaniemy kicz, magię, klimat rodem z Gridhouse ! Zresztą obejrzyjcie sobie trailer:

Dla mnie bomba. Jasne dalej uważam, że Wii to straszny szit, którego nie wezmę pod dach prędko, ale kurcze – kolejna gra na Wii hołdująca kiczowatemu komiksowi, filmowi klasy B i starej szkole robienia gier. Hurra! Co prawda nie jara mnie tak, jak mogłoby się wydawać - jednak jara bardziej niż połowa dużych produkcji o niczym. Jeszcze kilka nikogo nie obchodzących informacji: gra przedstawi pierwsza misję Agenta G, będzie slow-motion w czasie strzelania oraz – tadam ! – walka z bliska za pomocą wiilota. Poprzedni składak House’ów na Wii nawet mi się podobał, ta produkcja może skopać tyłki. I niech wrzucą pierwszą część to ukontentują me podniebienie klasy B.

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*tak grywam na PC, i podobnie jak cali trzej z Was kupuje na niego oryginały ;) jakby było nas troszkę więcej może masa Pctowych serii/gier by nie padła, nie  (System Shock, MoO, Thief, Planescape choćby)?

Sega I love you long time! Yes your eyes do not deceive you Sega has announced at Leipzig today that they will be bringing us a fourth installment of the House of the Dead franchise entitled "Overkill". I am really stoked about this news as I am a big fan of light gun games genre and even a bigger fan of the House of the Dead franchise. Not to mention the fact that the really cheesy 70's B-grade trailer for House of the Dead: Overkill has gotten me even more worked up now. The fourth installment of the franchise is scheduled for release on the Wii in early 2009, and I highly recommend you go check out these screenshots and the trailer.

House of the Dead: Overkill

Seems like this is a biggie announcement this week, Headstrong Games (previous Kuju) team up with Sega to bring us another light gun shooter.

Not a big fan, but I guess this is good news~

Sega a anunciado oficialmente el desarrollo para Wii de House Of The Dead: Overkill.

Una nueva entrega de la saga de zombis mas conocida de los juegos después de Resident Evil (por supuesto) desarrollada por el estudio británico Headstrong Games.

En esta ocasión no será una adaptación de algunas de las recreativas como ya paso anteriormente en Wii con House Of The Dead 2 y 3: Returns ya que esta entrega es completamente nueva y exclusiva de la consola de Nintendo.

En The House of the Dead: OVERKILL™ te tendrás que encargar de acribillar a olas de zombis infectados y sediosos de sangre, una aventura a la desesperada en la que tendrás que sobrevivir al infierno en el que se ha convertido Bayou City y sacar a la luz la terrible verdad de los orígenes de The House of the Dead.

¡Supervivencia terrorífica como nunca antes has visto! Este juego retoma la clásica serie de disparos de SEGA. Antaño, cuando el famoso agente G era un novato y formó equipo con el agente Washington, un tipo duro y violento, para investigar sucesos acerca de desapariciones misteriosas en una pequeña ciudad de Luisiana. Jamás se podrían imaginar que se toparían con esas pesadillas mutantes y sangrientas por las calles y pantanos de Bayou City.

Características

• Terror trepidante hasta la médula
Uno de los juegos de disparos más clásicos con una nueva apariencia de película de serie B.

• Toque desafiante de desmembración de zombis
Acción sin límites con las pistolas en Wii, para que batas récords reventando zombis.

• Modo cooperativo magnífico en Wii
Juega con un amigo y meteos en una película con los dos protagonistas más cabronazos y chulos de los videojuegos.

• Acción incesante, desbordante y llena de vísceras
Solo los agentes de sangre fría podrán guardar la compostura a la hora de enfrentarse a esta marea de zombis. Usa “Slow-Mofo Time” para lograr reventar perfectamente la cabeza a un zombi o “Evil Eye” para discernir el momento oportuno en el cual hacer volar todo por los aires.

• Reacciones del mando de Wii
Métete en la piel de estos matazombis gracias a los sensores de movimiento del mando de Wii. Ármate con la recortada y, si se te acercan mucho los zombis, vuélales la mandíbula o reviéntales la cabeza con todo el arsenal que tengas. Todo esto aderezado con detalles realistas que harán temblar tu estómago

Aquí tenéis el trailer muy al estilo de la película Grindhouse

Fuentes: Gamekyo, SpongyChicken y SEGA

"Strange this hasn't been made public yet, as far as I'm concerned I'm not under any NDA or embargo, so I can tell it's an entirely new House of the Dead. Or at least thats what I assume, since I'm booked for a House of the Dead showing this friday at GC-08... There is honestly not more to tell. I don't know anything but the fact that Sega has booked my for a showing of House of the Dead at friday 11.20am. But there should be a lot more news on this when we (press) hit the floor of GC-08 in two days."

The first three titles in the House of the Dead series have already been ported to the Wii and have been pretty well accepted my both the media and consumers. A whole new experience might sell extremely well.

Sources: Gamekyo.com, NeoGaf.com

Related Entries: SEGA

"Strange this hasn't been made public yet, as far as I'm concerned I'm not under any NDA or embargo, so I can tell it's an entirely new House of the Dead. Or at least thats what I assume, since I'm booked for a House of the Dead showing this friday at GC-08... There is honestly not more to tell. I don't know anything but the fact that Sega has booked my for a showing of House of the Dead at friday 11.20am. But there should be a lot more news on this when we (press) hit the floor of GC-08 in two days."

The first three titles in the House of the Dead series have already been ported to the Wii and have been pretty well accepted my both the media and consumers. A whole new experience might sell extremely well.

Sources: Gamekyo.com, NeoGaf.com

Related Entries: SEGA

Well the following three should be avoided at all costs, because if you do watch it, you wish you would ask for your time back.

3. The plot of The Sickhouse is primarily this: An archaeologist uncovers an old artifact from the 16th century. Problem is, she is locked in the building with four other people who sought refuge after a hit and run incident.

The building they are in was actually a sickhouse, used to treat those with the plague. So what's so bad about the movie? Pretty much everything else besides the acting. The concept is nothing new, and most of the characters are so annoying you just want them to die anyways.

While the movie is a bit unnerving, it's not worth your time feeling that emotion when you could watch far more superior movies, like Cloverfield or Diary of the Dead.

2. Next up is The House of The Dead. Based on Sega's video game series, the movie does absolutely nothing to appease fans of the series.

The acting is horrible, the script is pathetic, and its not even scary. Its a cheesy movie that should be avoided at all costs.

Still thinking of watching the movie? Curious? Trust me..

House of the Boredom is terrible.

There is not one positive thing to say about this movie. It's painful even recalling the scenes.

1. Last we have Mummy Maniac. Probably produced on a budget of $500, the movie is about a killer who likes to wrap his victims up in toilet paper.

Why is this the most stupid horror movie? Because the same events is recycled throughout the entire movie - and the acting is possibly the worst in history.

With a boring camera angle, and only two environments throughout the whole movie, you will be in pain watching this pathetic attempt at recreating another "based on actual events" scenarios. If the real killer saw this movie, he might have just committed suicide.

The conversations that the characters have in this movie are so bad, you would think a first grader wrote the script.

Directed by Uwe Boll

Starring Christian Slater, Tara Reid, Stephen Dorff

Ah Uwe Boll, how do I hate thee, let me count the ways. Let me count the 275,000+ ways other people are showing their distaste for Boll's films at the "Stop Uwe Boll" from making movies petition. If you've seen any of his movies, you'll immediately understand why people are signing this online petition. Boll has publicly and rather foolishly stated that he will stop making movies when the list hits 1 million signatures. But before I ask you to go and do your part, let me just tell how bad a bad movie can get.

My first run in with Boll was at an independent movie festival in San Francisco where Boll was shopping a steamy pile of shit called House of the Dead around to distributors. He seemed charismatic at first, introducing the film, yet once the showing was complete and the insults started flying, Boll turned into the ego-inflated jackass we know today. That film like Alone in the Dark was supposed to be based on the game, yet it had no discernable link to its origins. Rather an hour long rave scene on an island with a cast of the most obnoxious characters to ever grace the screen followed up with a series of ridiculous zombie vs. human fights that made no sense.

And Clint Howard. Another stamp of bad filmmaking.

We started having bad movie night while I was LA which mainly consisted of renting the worst films we could get our hands on, getting loaded, and trying to sit through them. One night we watched my second Boll film, Bloodrayne, and holy shit that was bad...but I think I'll save that for its own post.

Which leads us to Alone in the Dark, which I watched, alone in the dark. I have a bad habit of when I rent or see a film, no matter how bad it is, I'll endure physical and emotional torment to finish watching it. For some reason I decided to dedicate myself to getting through this entire 96 minute turd. Expecting something similar to the game, a favorite of mine from my high school/college days, I was sorely disappointed when Boll turned the film into a ridiculous action movie, with ill-timed disjointed effects, unmotivated action scenes, poor acting (I think Tara Reid is actually drunk or stoned in every shot), and no discernable plot whatsoever.

The writers of the first draft of this film wrote a fascinating article about the experience of writing with Boll:

"The original script took the Alone In the Dark premise and depicted it as if it were actually based on a true story of a private investigator in the northeastern U.S. whose missing persons cases begin to uncover a disturbing paranormal secret. It was told through the eyes of a writer following Edward Carnby and his co-worker for a novel, and depicted them as real-life blue-collar folks who never expected to find hideous beings waiting for them in the dark. We tried to stick close to the H. P. Lovecraft style and the low-tech nature of the original game, always keeping the horror in the shadows so you never saw what was coming for them. Thankfully Dr. Boll was able to hire his loyal team of hacks to crank out something much better than our crappy story and add in all sorts of terrifying horror movie essentials like opening gateways to alternate dimensions, bimbo blonde archaeologists, sex scenes, mad scientists, slimy dog monsters, special army forces designed to battle slimy CG dog monsters, Tara Reid, "Matrix" slow-motion gun battles, and car chases. Oh yeah, and a ten-minute opening back story scroll read aloud to the illiterate audience, the only people able to successfully miss all the negative reviews. I mean hell, Boll knows that's where the real scares lie."

Rottentomatoes ranks this turkey a 1% and it graces the top of many lists as the worst film ever made, but don't take my word for it. Rent it, watch as much of it as you can physically stomach, and then come back here and sign the petition. Please, I beg of you. Think of the children.

You know what? Fuck the trailer, watch this instead:

Stride(R) Gum Declares Its Support for StopUweBoll.org

		Stride Logo. (PRNewsFoto/Cadbury Adams) PARSIPPANY, NJ UNITED STATES

 The Makers of Stride, The Ridiculously Long Lasting Gum(R), Offer A Total
   of One Million Packs of Gum to Signers of the Anti-Uwe Boll Petition*

    PARSIPPANY, N.J., May 7 /PRNewswire/ -- In an effort to protect the
childhood dreams of millions of video gamers everywhere, the makers of
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supporting the efforts of StopUweBoll.org in their attempt to convince
famed film director Uwe Boll to stop making video game-based films.

    (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080507/NYW034LOGO )

    For years, Boll has piqued the ire of the gaming community by adapting
many of their favorite games into universally panned films
(http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/uwe_boll/). On April 4, 2008, Boll
remarked to legendary horror site FearNet that he'd consider acquiescing to
his critics and abandoning making films in this genre if an online petition
reached one million signatures. As of press time, the petition is just
about 234,000 names, which is why Stride has decided to jump in.

    "Since gamers are one of our most supportive groups, we've been looking
for ways to return the favor," said Gary Osifchin, Stride North American
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by helping them rescue their cherished videogames from the clutches of Uwe
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    In an effort to help boost signings, the makers of Stride have put out
a special bounty. If the petition reaches the required 1 million signatures
by May 14 at 5pm EDT, each signer will receive a digital coupon* for a pack
of gum, downloadable on May 23, 2008, a day that could really use some
long-lasting refreshment, particularly as it will see the debut of his
latest videogame-based film.

    "Look, it's nothing personal against the guy. Maybe his non
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for this cause that we couldn't help but get involved," said Osifchin. "Let
the signing continue."

    * Stride will provide a downloadable coupon (good for one pack of gum) to
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So what are you waiting for SIGN THE PETITION HERE.

Previously on Boll

• Uwe Boll Will Quit Making Movies with One Million Signatures | /Film

Typing of the dead nos convertirá en auténticos maestros de la mecanografía, ya que su sistema de combate consiste en escribir un nombre o una frase que nos aparece por pantalla cada vez que queramos disparar a un zombie... signos de interrogación, exclamación, puntos y comas incluidos.

"Typing of the dead" inicialmente fue una máquina arcade en la que se ofrecía la posibilidad de jugar con otro jugador, incluyendo así la propia máquina dos teclados QWERTY. En la más pura tradición de la saga House of the dead, el juego fue posteriormente lanzado para otras consolas, como la fallida pero muy interesante Dreamcast, PS2 e incluso PC (versión que he tenido el "placer" de probar" xD).

A pesar de que el juego ha tenido muy mala crítica, la verda es que es muy muy divertido y desquiciante, ...ya sólo por el hecho de pensar "a quién coño se le ocurriría esto?" vale la pena xD

JURO que NO es un montaje

Para finales de este año se espera, en Japón, una segunda parte de este, cuanto menos, curioso juego, esta vez basado en House of the dead III.

Preguntaos cómo de hechos polvo estáis...si la respuesta es MUCHO, ya tardáis en bajaros el juego xD Yo al menos me he reido un buen rato xDDD

P.D: Sólo faltaría que Uwe Boll transformase este juego en película, metiendo a los protagonistas con teclados dispara-cartuchos. Argh.

Monday started off a little glum as my alarm went off and i realized i was not prepared to actually go to work today and the impending doom of my wisdom teeth cutting was most definitely upon me.  Ouch. So obviously i hit the snooze button a few times then proceeded to get ready.  Then something clicked... it's Monday, and this means a NEW GOSSIP GIRL!  Some of you may not know what a GG fan I am, and that's okay you will soon.  Not only does it contain beautiful people to live vicariously through, it's set in the very enchanting NYC.  Now, it is set mostly in the Upper East Side, and i could never afford to live there seeing as how it's a struggle to live in the upper east side of Austin from time to time, but it's still lovely.

So now in good spirits, minus the throbbing tooth, i headed out the door and guess what... i was on time, two minutes early even!  With my morning coffee in hand i send out the e-mail blast about all of our lovely CW programing for the week including the very exciting GG that aired tonight, and before you say "obsessed much" it's actually part of my job... i work for the local NBC and CW affiliates, then txt my roommate to see if massive amounts of pizza and GG were in the run down for tonight.  Sadly, they were not, I got the sobering news that she had to miss it this week and any massive amounts of pizza would be eaten alone.  If the outlook of eating a large pizza by yourself isn't enough to make you upset i look up at the Today show to see Miley has done it again.

Miley, why Miley!  Judge me if you will but her songs are catchy and Hannah Montana is so awful it's pretty damn entertaining.  I really did have high hopes for this one.  I won't be surprised to see this surface later as a publicity stunt to re-invent her image to appeal to an older crowd as her tween fans age with her but i just wish there was some other way.  And before I share my thoughts about the photos can i just say...picture it, Girls in Media the spring of '07, i was in my prime and ready to graduate.  The assignment pick a girl in media today and write about her affects and portrayal.  I chose our dear old Miley, and her duality stardom and the affects it could have on tween fans as well as the portrayal of girls in media and the future.... if i could find the paper... which i will i'm pretty sure i wrote about how it could be confusing and problematic for Miley and her fans.  In a way i should have seen this coming...sigh.  Now the photos, the first batch that were spread around the internet... Miley, i get it you want to be as cute and sexy as the Victoria's Secret model we all saw in the super bowl add but give it up... not like that, spring for some glamour shots. As for the Vanity Fair article... I saw the photos online, a little creepy with your dad, not the All American family we're used to.  The satin sheet photo wasn't provocative in my opinion just not the most faltering shot.  Okay that's enough air time for Miley, Annie Leibovitz and the mediocre photos.  Ouch.

What really turned this douche of a day around was a little discovery our editor lead me to find.  That's right not only can you play Guitar Hero... called Flash Hero on your computer but my all time favorite video/arcade game House of the Dead But wait...it gets better, The Typing of The Dead  That's right, "type or die"  I can't describe how dorky and awesome this is!  I just had a long conversation about typing class games the other day so you can see what the timing of finding this is just so perfect.  I fully plan to investigate both games and let you know what I think.  I know it won't ever fulfill my dreams of having the actual House of the Dead arcade game of my very own but i don't know if i could get this it might, just might be cool enough for me.  For now i'll get it for my computer and let you know how i feel about it.  No sense in getting the cart before the horse.

I hope no one thought 88 Minutes was gonna be good. Unlike previously horribly shitty movies whoever made this 88 minute film made the mistake of screening it for critics. On Metacritic, a summation of every respected critic all over the country, you’ll see a 12 next to the name 88 Minutes followed by the quote “Extreme dislike or disgust.” This weekend will truly be a test to see how much of a baller Al Pacino is. How many people out there would like to see the worst movie Al Pacino has ever made? He is Al Pacino; we'll find out on Sunday night. With the internet bringing reviews of movies to Yahoo and Google home pages, highlighting monumentally bad ones, Sony might have missed out on the wily move of not allowing any critics to see it. You may or may not be aware of this move that studios make every now and again. If they know that the movie they’re putting out will be completely panned by critics, they simply don’t screen it for them. Some movies you might remember seeing trailers for but not actually seeing that have utilized this tactic in the past are Ultraviolet, Date Movie, Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector, and the infamous Uwe Boll’s Bloodrayne. My guess is Sony might have made more chedder had they added 88 minutes to that proud list of fine films, and lord knows they need it with the Wii kicking ass and taking names. This guy Uwe Boll actually has quite a funny little story going on right now.

Uwe Boll is the director of a bunch of infamously bad films that include such gems as BloodRayne, In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, House of the Dead, Alone in the Dark, and last but not least BloodRayne II: Deliverance. A few months back there was an online petition that stated:

“We, the undersigned, respectfully ask that Uwe Boll give proper weight to the wishes of the video game community, the horror community, and the film going community in general and stop directing, producing, or taking any part in the creation of feature films. His distasteful handling of the subject matter and lack of acknowledgement of his failures simply cannot be abided any longer.

Mr. Boll has repeatedly shown a complete lack of comprehension regarding the videogames he has dragged, kicking and screaming, to the silver screen and his ham-fisted approach to horror has soiled future possibilities for anyone else who may attempt to bring videogames to film.

“Sincerely the Undersigned”

This petition has over two hundred thousand signatures and has been growing daily. Taking this as a serious personal attack good old Boll posted this video of himself on the internet.

And then this equally ridiculous one…

And then this completely over the top unbelievably ridiculous one, talking about taking a shit at Starbucks…

To date the Long Live Uwe Boll petition has 4,402 signatures. That’s 0.022 % of the people who signed the original petition. Uwe has said that with 1 million signatures he will quite the film business forever, so, similarly to the upcoming presidential election, I urge you all to do your part and vote!

- Rich

Doncs bé, ja fa temps que un grup de gent, mig en broma, mig seriosament, va engegar una campanya de petició de signatures per demanar que Uwe Boll deixés de fer pel.lícules. La resposta del director alemany ha estat tant contundent com xulesca: ha penjat un video a Youtube on accepta que si aquesta campanya arriba al milió de signatures plegarà. Però per contra, ha engegat la seva pròpia campanya per recollir signatures a favor seu; es despatxa titllant de retardat al director Michael Bay ('Transformers', 'Armageddon'), carregant contra les 'porqueries' que fan gent com George Clooney o Eli Roth ('Hostel'); i com a colofó es despedeix declarant-se a sí mateix com "l'únic geni que queda en el món del cinema".

La modèstia no el defineix i per demostrar-ho ha anunciat que el seu proper film, 'Postal', ha decidit estrenar-lo exactament el mateix cap de setmana que s'estrena 'Indiana Jones' per demostrar que no li fa ni por ni respecte el cinema més comercial. La batalla entre fans i detractors d'Uwe Boll no ha fet més que començar. Qui aconseguirà abans el milió de signatures??

Per ara el marcador va 161.800 firmes en contra i 1.710 a favor

Dá oi pra câmera, retardado!

Olha o portfólio do camarada...

House of the Dead, Alone in the Dark, BloodRayne, In the Name of the King (baseado em Dungeon Siege), Postal e BloodRayne II (Deus... o primeiro não era ruim o suficiente?). E tem mais coisa boa vindo por aí: Far Cry, Alone in the Dark II e BloodRayne III (¬¬). Todos fracassaram em bilheteria e custaram fortunas. Genial ele, não?

O interessante é que ele não se contenta em fazer filme ruim. Afinal, ele não quer ser só um diretor ruim como o Michael Bay. Ele quer ser uma lenda e para sê-lo ele se acha o foda e joga a merda no ventilador diariamente. O camarada chegou ao cúmulo de organizar uma luta de boxe e convidou todos os seus críticos e não é que o cretino venceu todas as lutas?

18 mil? Pff! 1 milhão, seus bostas!

Quer saber a ultima do camarada? Recentemente, uma petição foi colocada na internet e tinha como objetivo alcançar 18 mil assinaturas para pedir que o caro senhor Uwe Boll desistisse de sua carreira. O filho da puta descobriu a história e ironizou dizendo que acataria o abaixo assinado caso houvesse 1 milhão de assinaturas.

Por isso, estou aqui, nesta noite solitária de quarta-feira, para pedir a você, caro visitante deste blogue ridículo, que assine a petição. Quem sabe esse cretino narcisista some de vez da indústria do cinema.

Fontes: IMDb, 100Grana, Meio Bit Games, Joystiq