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The Movie of the Year

10 Jan 2008 11:31 am

Yes, it has arrived.

"Life ... has never been so exciting."

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A Uwe Bol-directed Lord of the Rings rip-off starring Ray Liotta and Burt Reynolds?

It's stupid to make rash predictions, but I predict that this will be the most entertaining thing in the history of humanity.

Posted by JB | January 10, 2008 12:12 PM

I think this will be the year that Uwe Bol finally gets the attention from Oscar he has so long deserved but so long been denied. Those things are so political.

Posted by Jimmy | January 10, 2008 12:57 PM

Neiher Ray Liotta or Burt Reynolds can act their way out of a wet paper bag. This looks awful.

Posted by jbentley | January 10, 2008 1:48 PM

Uwe Boll keeps getting called "the Ed Wood of our time," but I'm starting to think that he's managed to out-Ed Wood Ed Wood. Ask yourself this: if Ed Wood was alive today, do you think he would have been able to get Sir Ben Kingsley to act opposite the evil robot chick from Terminator 3 in an adaptation of a mediocre video game?

Posted by Ned | January 10, 2008 2:21 PM

What Ned said, I knew nothing about Uwe Boll or Blood Rayne (never heard of the video game or movie) was flippign channels on cable one night in th emood for something mindless adn figured it would fit the bill, when Kingsley's character came on I did a double take and said to myself "Ben Freaking Kingsley is in this? How much budget did this crap get?"

Posted by Eric K | January 10, 2008 2:36 PM

Uwe Boll neophytes, you need to familiarize yourself with a little something called "House of the Dead." It features zombies attacking a rave sponsored by Sega, and cuts in scenes of said video game during the action sequences.

I eagerly anticipate this movie.

Also, bad moviephiles viewing this thread need to track down a movie called "The Room." It is a revelation.

Posted by Just Another Greg | January 10, 2008 3:40 PM

I always figured that Ben Kingsley lost some kind of bet to end up in Blood Rayne.

Maybe Uwe Bol casting is consists of signing people up when they are too drunk to know better.

Jason Statham wakes up with no memory of the night before, but his name is on the contract...

Posted by TheCraig | January 10, 2008 4:02 PM

All this Ben Kingsley talk seems to be forgetting his large role in "The Sound of Thunder" a few years ago. It was possibly the dumbest, most laughably amateurish movie I've ever seen.

Posted by mad6798j | January 10, 2008 4:06 PM

One of the greatest questions of the past 20 years is what happened to the Ray Liotta from Goodfellas?

I'm also disappointed in Jason Statham. Not that he's had a distinguished film career, but I just loved his character Bacon from Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels...actually I think I just loved the fact that he played a character named Bacon...what a great name.

Also, as a man in his 30's with a receding hairline, I'd root for any actor who is similarly follicle-ly challenged in the hopes that his success will help balding men everywhere.

Posted by Mark B | January 10, 2008 4:33 PM

Burt Reynolds? Burt Freaking Reynolds? Who wrote the screenpay, Hal Needham? Is Jerry Reed in it too? How about Jim Nabors?

Posted by Jim Nelson | January 11, 2008 8:08 PM

Ever since Gandhi, Ben Kingsley seems to choose any random role that allows him to be violent: Sexy Beast (which he was great in and actually a decent movie besides his performance), Blood Rayne, Lucky Number Slevin, etc. Eventually he's probably going to play a Buddhist monk who smashes people with a sledgehammer in "The Middle Fist... of Death."

Posted by Reality Man | January 13, 2008 8:37 AM