Bloodrayne

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This is an older game that came out for a bunch of systems a few years ago, but I just recently started playing it for the very first time and it kicks some serious ass. You are a redheaded female vampire and you have swords you can use to slash people up, and you can pick up guns off their corpses and use them to fight other baddies, and you can even bite them on the neck and drink their blood. This is also the way that you replenish your health, and that is very innovative if you ask me.

The game reminds me somewhat of Resident Evil, but Resident Evil always scared the crap out of me. This game doesn't scare me as much, and that may be because this time I'm just as spooky (if not even spookier) than the ones I am up against. So it's all good.

But anyways, what do you guys think about this game? I for one hope they make a sequel.

There's even a film, but it's by Uwe Boll, so it's crap.

Oh, they made a Bloodrayne II a long time ago. And Uwe Boll actually made two Bloodrayne films. Neither of the films had anything to do with the games, which is a shame becausea REAL film of the game could have been awesome in the hands of a talented, faithful director.

Anyway, I never got into the first one because the controls didn't work for me, but I did enjoy what I played of the second one.

It doesn't matter if Uwe Boll's film has anything to do with the game or not the fact remains that since there's already a film with that Name, Hollywood will eventually remake it with a decent budget and decent director and ... (sigh) probably Mark "King-of-the-Remake" Wahlberg.

everybody knows that Rayne is just a cheap ripoff of Durham Red

Sorry about not refuting your other post, been seriously busy these last few weeks...

The original "Thing from another world was pretty crappy" and it got remade.

Some people would say the same about Amityville...

The 1907 and 1925 versions of Ben Hur...

Even Glen or Glenda was remade in 1994.

I could go on but will instead refer you to wikipedia's list of remakes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_film_remakes_A-M

I've read a lot of material about how Hollywood feels more comfortable remaking films than taking a gamble on new films.

If a remake fails, they say "Well, it could never top the original anyway" and if it succeeds, they have a film that makes money.

While I don't actually like any of Uwe Boll's work so far, I expect that one day he'll make a mistake and produce something halfway decent. It's the law of averages.

Oh, it's ok. I still don't get your logic though.

Boll might PRODUCE something decent, because he's a good producer. Always somehow keeps getting his movies funded even though none of them make ANY money. But he sure as hell won't direct anything decent, because that takes talent...and he has none.

Anyway, those are all different because none of them are video game adaptations. The only way Bloodrayne will get remade is if the studios think that the remake will make money. Consider how many crappy movies have NEVER been remade and never WILL get remade. Even the crappy films that WERE remade were significant in some way, whereas a film like Bloodrayne is instantly forgetable, completely meaningless, another crappy low-budget vampire film in a genre that's overfull with them already.

And even if it does get remade, then it probably won't be for another 20 years or so, and by then Hollywood might have changed and become more risky and less remake-crazy. More to the point, I don't want to wait 20 years to see a good Bloodrayne film when there COULD have been a great one years ago had the first one been handled by anyone with any actual talent. All the more reason to stop Boll from gobbling up rights to more games when better directors could be doing it, lest we have even MORE potentially awesome video game movies suffer the same fate.

I guess I have a few points;

1. Even the most talentless director must eventually direct something worthwhile - it's the law of averages - eventually that particular monkey will type Hamlet - unbelievable though it seems now.

2. I don't think Boll is gobbling up anyone's rights. If he wasn't around, then those video game movies probably would never be made. There's hardly any video game adaptions which are any good and considering that easily makable things like Leisure Suit Larry (with Danny DeVito) have sat in video game movie development hell for years - and will never be made - there's obviously no market for them.

If Uwe doesn't make them, then nobody will.

Now if Uwe was gobbling up superhero films I'd say different.