Uwe Boll's 1968: Tunnel Rats Trailer Sucks!

By Jack February 11, 2008 8:44 AM

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It's entirely unclear to me as to why Uwe Boll is still making movies. What's even harder to understand is is why the studios continue to give him a budget, produce and release these movies. This the uber-hack director's film follows a special US combat unit is sent out to hunt and kill the Viet Cong soldiers in a man-to-man combat in the endless tunnels underneath the jungle of Vietnam.

Terrible, terrible filmmaking await you.

Watch the 1968: Tunnel Rats Trailer

Why god? WHHHHHHHHYYYYYY????!!!

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Why Uwe Boll gets to make movies...   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on February 12, 2008 6:35 AM

In most cases he actually does turn a profit for the studio. It's kind of like the guys who make those Meet the Spartans/Epic movies, if you're making a sequel to a big, successful blockbuster then you know that no matter the quality of the movie, it'll do good initial business purely on the strength of the original.

Uwe Boll basically applies this to videogames. He knows that if he makes a movie of say, Alone in the Dark then he's already got a built in audience of people who will see the movie before he's even shot a roll of film. It's simply a case of working out exactly how big an audience that is had then budgeting the movie accordingly. As long as he spends less on it than the fan-base suggests he's likely to make then it's easy money.

By doing this he's managed to carve out a cushie little career for himself and every so often he can go out and make something that's not based on a game.