Video Game Epic to Boll Over US Audiences (January 11, 2008)

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After a limited European release late last year, the action fantasy film In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale has finally opened in the US. Originally intended to be a two-parter, the release date was pushed back a few times. Uwe Boll's latest spectacle stars Wing Commander duo Matthew Lillard and John Rhys-Davies. The impressive cast also includes Jason Statham, Burt Reynolds, Ray Liotta, Leelee Sobieski, Ron Perlman, Claire Forlani and Kristanna Loken. A 90 second trailer is available here in handy Flash Video format.





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On a related note, the Lancer's Reactor, the premiere community hub for Starlancer, Freelancer and Dungeon Siege, is back after a recent meltdown and a couple of server moves. Forum topics and site content are not up yet, but gamers can download essential files and see the site's fresh new look. MentalChaos asks that anyone with experience migrating a database from MS SQL to MySQL give him a call.

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Original update published on January 11, 2008
 
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Has anyone seen Dungeon Siege yet? I love terrible movies and I really want to see Uwe Boll's take on a Lord of the Rings-style fantasy epic.
 
Vinman said:
Has anyone seen Dungeon Siege yet? I love terrible movies and I really want to see Uwe Boll's take on a Lord of the Rings-style fantasy epic.
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It's not playing in my town yet... But there are a few clips on youtube. My reaction was mixed. There seemed to be at least some attempt by the actors to make do with bland dialogue, while there was at least one actor who was fairly terrible. THe cinematographer seemed to be trying, and apparently the script is originally written by the actual people that worked on the games. But the editing in the clips I saw seemed really atrocious. It's like part of the scenes were missing (which is possible I guess) and while there wasn't a large portion of the score to make judgement on what it was like, the timing of when the music cued into the scenes was hiliariously bizare, as if someone looked at a timeline of the scene and pointed blindfolded at it and then put the music cue there.
 
Funny enough, I have heard two different reviews of it in the same paper.

The first was "a movie that won't suck" mostly because it was at least a big-budget production. But that article could've been from interviews with Uwe Boll (who apparently is a Vancouver (Canada) director, and has done 8 or 9 films in Vancouver). At least, high hopes have been set.

The second was Friday when it was reviewed as the normal mess that defines the general thing you get when you take books or games and make a movie from them. (1 1/2 out of 5).

Taking these two, it's probably your standard hollywood fare except at least you have big effects and such so it isn't low-budget. Could be the best Boll movie yet!
 
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