House of the Dead Film

Like any sane person, I despise Uwe Boll and can't stand reading his incredibly vile and immature rants or anything about him personally that doesn't make me sick. However, I was reading on wiki regarding the House of the Dead movie:

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The then Sega of America president Peter Moore and game series creator Rikiya Nakagawa both portrayed zombies in the film. Both are credited at the end of the film under "Special Thanks".

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Is this true? I could care less about Peter Moore but when you have the creator involved then that's quite troubling.

At least Blizzard and Konami rejected his Warcraft and MGS offers, thank God.

That movie was just AWFUL!!! Such a far cry from the Resident Evil franchise. I was soooo disappointed. :(

I hoped the movie had anything to do with the game...

Overkill was a better film experience.

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Originally Posted by QuickSciFi

That movie was just AWFUL!!! Such a far cry from the Resident Evil franchise. I was soooo disappointed. :(

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There was that animated RE movie which was pretty good though. (CGI, I don't remember the name, but it was from ~2 years ago)

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Originally Posted by kool kitty89

There was that animated RE movie which was pretty good though. (CGI, I don't remember the name, but it was from ~2 years ago)

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It was probably this one:
Resident Evil: Degeneration

The House of the Dead film was hilariously bad, as to where the Resident Evil films were just..
they were all serious and were nothing like the games.
(the idea of making a movie about a game is because the game story was interesting,
changing that story leaves you with something that is.. not interesting for fans of the game)

And the CGI Resident Evil movie? typical Capcom weirdness, always with the OMG WE GOTTA FIND THE EVIL BEHIND IT,
(and no actual Zombie survival story)

So i'll have to agree with Nunzio that HOTD Overkill felt like a better movie. http://www.sega-16.com/forum/images/icons/talking.gif

Movies based on a game..the formula never works

I remember the trailer for the "House of the Dead" movie. It was horrible, but I recall there was some slow-motion, low cut top, jiggle action.

Made seeing the trailer worthwhile, not enough to watch the movie.

House of the Dead 2 the movie was a little better... but it still sucked.

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Originally Posted by FoxHound

Movies based on a game..the formula never works

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I don't know, the Silent Hill movie was okay. It captured the weird atmosphere pretty well.

There's hilarious bad, then there's just bad. HotD is the latter.

I enjoy the RE movies(at least 1 and 3), and Silent Hill was really well made. The script sucked, but they had the visuals and sound design down pat.

Silent Hill's atmosphere was dead on but they completely fucked up the narrative and some of the performances were painfully bad. It had a lot of potential, and it's definitely several steps above such ass-trash as House of the Dead or Bloodrayne. Still wouldn't consider it a "good" movie, though.

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Originally Posted by jerry coeurl

Silent Hill's atmosphere was dead on but they completely fucked up the narrative and some of the performances were painfully bad. It had a lot of potential, and it's definitely several steps above such ass-trash as House of the Dead or Bloodrayne. Still wouldn't consider it a "good" movie, though.

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Well, and now be honest, how many really good movies are there in a given year?

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Originally Posted by Scooter

I don't know, the Silent Hill movie was okay. It captured the weird atmosphere pretty well.

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I liked the SH movie a lot. I didn't care at all that the story was altered from the Game. In fact, had they just followed the game storyline, it would have been kind of boring.
Most of the acting was decent IMO, the atmosphere was just effin amazing, definitely one of the best live action VG to movie conversions.
Kind of funny that The 5th Element seems a lot like a movie made from a game, an dyet it's not, even more ironic that the game based on it sucked.

I liked the way it took portions of both SH1 and 2 (a little of 3 perhaps), it felt "right" to me. The RE movies didn't merit me watching them through when my dad rented them. Then again, I don't care for the RE games nearly as much as the SH ones. (Still haven't gotten to SH1 though, never had a PSX or PS2, emulation now, but the thing's gotten pretty expensive, too bad it never got a PC release like the 2nd 2 games -I prefer the saving mechanism of the PC versions anyway)

I really didn't notice too much of a problem with the diologue or acting, I watched it twice and it seemed good overall. (I mean, the english voice acting in the games is pretty good, and I didn't see much wrong with the film by comparison -unless you're saying the acting in a feature film should be a lot better than good acting by VG voice acting standards)
Deeper than the average hooror film, just like the game, much more phychological. Hell, even my mom liked it, and she usually doesn't care for horror stuff. Sci-fi and fantacy yeah, and creepy stuff -Alfred Hitchcock type thrillers, some Stephen King stuff, Twilight Zone, Outer Limits etc, but not the hack n' slash violent horror stuff like Nighmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, The Shining, Exorcist, Halloween etc. (I think she likes some of the campier stuff too, She and I are both Bruce Campbell fans -moreso for Brisco Country than anything else though)

Anyway, I haven't seen HotD personally, so I'm not sure, but it doesn't sound like it's worth it. (I like soem of the "hillariously bad" stuff, especially when it's intentional -like some of the Bruce Campbell films -but that's more awesomely campily toungh-in cheek hillariously bad, things like Green Slime are pretty hillariously bad in th etraditional sense though)