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<blockquote data-quote="jdrakeh" data-source="post: 2664571" data-attributes="member: 13892">A lot of that has been due to film budgets being eaten up simply to acquire IP and a starring actor or two, leaving little money for decent actors or writers. This doesn't appear to be the case with Dungeon Siege, obviously - it'll be the first Uwe Boll movie to feature more than two A-List actors, plus some acclaimed writers such as David Freeman (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room). Apparently, Uwe Boll has some talent that he hasn't yet been able to showcase - note that he's also been tapped to direct Hunter: The Reckoning in 2007, and just wrapped Bloodrayne, featuring A-List actors such as Ben Kingsley and Michael Madsen, as well as a handful of well known B-List actors (Billy Zane, Meat Loaf, etc). I think that House of the Dead was a miserable piece of crap, as was Alone in the Dark - but now that the man has some money and talent to play with (two things that he's never had at his disposal before), I'm willing to wager that he can crank out something watchable... Peter Jackson was in much the same situation, and look where he ended up <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />[Note: Peter Jackson's sole directing credit prior to the Lord of the Rings movies was a B-Movie zombie flick called 'Dead Alive&quot; (it contained bad dialogue, bad acting, bad writing and was, in every way, on par with Uwe Boll's films to date).]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jdrakeh, post: 2664571, member: 13892"] A lot of that has been due to film budgets being eaten up simply to acquire IP and a starring actor or two, leaving little money for decent actors or writers. This doesn't appear to be the case with Dungeon Siege, obviously - it'll be the first Uwe Boll movie to feature more than two A-List actors, plus some acclaimed writers such as David Freeman (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room). Apparently, Uwe Boll has some talent that he hasn't yet been able to showcase - note that he's also been tapped to direct Hunter: The Reckoning in 2007, and just wrapped Bloodrayne, featuring A-List actors such as Ben Kingsley and Michael Madsen, as well as a handful of well known B-List actors (Billy Zane, Meat Loaf, etc). I think that House of the Dead was a miserable piece of crap, as was Alone in the Dark - but now that the man has some money and talent to play with (two things that he's never had at his disposal before), I'm willing to wager that he can crank out something watchable... Peter Jackson was in much the same situation, and look where he ended up ;) [Note: Peter Jackson's sole directing credit prior to the Lord of the Rings movies was a B-Movie zombie flick called 'Dead Alive" (it contained bad dialogue, bad acting, bad writing and was, in every way, on par with Uwe Boll's films to date).] [/QUOTE]

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