VIDEOS
I decided that I am going to upload my videos on YouTube from now on. The video player on GameSpot has a lot of problems. It would be easier for me to embed videos on Reviews Without Scores blog.
I recorded a few videos, and here they are:
Some of the videos are old, but I just uploaded them.
MOVIES
Lets talk about Far Cry movie.
I watched this god awful movie yesterday. Ben recently talked about how bad it was in his blog - https://www.gamespot.com/users/nutcrackr/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=m-100-25640278/
First off, why is Jack Carver a German soldier? He was American in the game. It was probably Uwe Boll’s idea of capturing the German audience.
Til Schweiger is not fit for the role of Jack Carver, he sounds funny. It was a WTF moment when I first heard him talk. Emmanuelle Vaugier’s acting in this movie is poor, nonexistent even. She wasn’t even given a chance to do a lot of bad acting.
The movie only vaguely follows the main plot of the game. The action is mindless, and the acting is horrible. Far Cry (game) didn’t have a great story; it was very straight forward, with a few surprises thrown in. This movie had none of that. I cannot understand how you could make such blunders with a simple story. He didn’t even get the easiest part right.
Don’t get me started on the obligatory soft sex scene and a really lame attempt at humor that follows. It’s predictable, unfunny and it made me cringe.
There is absolutely no suspense in the movie, unlike in the game, which has a few plot twists.
I don’t want to hate Uwe Boll’s movies. I tried to remain objective throughout, but it’s just not possible. He loves to butcher video game franchises. I hope he doesn’t get to work on any video game movies. He takes good games and turns them to horrible movies.
The film completely lacks the tension the game creates. The game had a lot better action (remember the hand glider bit?) than the movie. I suppose due to budget constraints, they couldn’t hire a good special effects team.
The only good part of the movie was the action choreography – it wasn’t terrible.
Everything else about the movie is.
REVIEW
I wrote a review of Prince of Warrior Within, you can check that here: Prince of Persia: Warrior Within
Don’t forget to pick up the little bonus I got there.