In the Name of the King Hits Theaters

[GameBanshee News]

In case you're looking for something to do this evening, it's worth mentioning that Uwe Boll's In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale is now in theaters. In fact, the director that everyone loves to hate has even released a statement:

Now a few days before IN THE NAME OF THE KING gets out in USA I have to tell whats going on in the filmindustry. If you dont get out with a MAJOR company the exhibitors and the tv and radio stations are not supporting you. This is the reason that independent movies are like self fullfilling prophecies and they almost bomb all. Our competitor in USA FIRST SUNDAY with Ice Cube is a piece of **** and for NOBODY nearly so interesting as IN THE NAME OF THE KING. We have a better movie and a bigger movie with a better script, better cast and we proved in europe that our movie has the power to stay 3 weeks in the TOP TEN and that we can get at least 50% good reviews. FIRST SUNDAY is a direct to DVD title in europe but in USA Sony puts 40 mill. $ in advertising to win that weekend. And this is completly absurd. Sony will not even recoup the advertising costs with that movie. The MAJORS own the TV Stations and the Radio Stations and they use that for free advertising and so the wide audience believes at one point that FIRST SUNDAY is the movie of that weekend - and they go and buy a ticket. The biggest problems in todays market is that nobody believes anymore in word of mouth or gives a film a chance without seeing upfront all 5 seconds in TV a spot.

So to all my fans in America or everybody who like Jason Statham or our other actors or loves fantasy or period piece movies or action movies or videogame based movies: go on january 11 in IN THE NAME OF THE KING and show that its not only advertising.

If anyone checks it out, let us know how it is.

[swcarter]

What a strange press release. Has Uwe Boll ever created anything that wasn't direct-to-video crap, with high hopes of a big opening weekend before thudding to the ground? Looking over at Rotten Tomatoes, I see that In the Name of the King currently has an impressive 0% score.

SWC

[DesR85]

I went to both Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes and so far, the reviews are rather bleak. Not surprising for a guy like Uwe Boll.

[Tricky]

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Originally Posted by swcarter Has Uwe Boll ever created anything that wasn't direct-to-video crap, with high hopes of a big opening weekend before thudding to the ground?

I'm pretty sure he's also something of a budget wizard. You don't see him making the next Lord of the Rings movie, but he still manages to obtain a lot of exposure with the games he movifies.

But I don't care much. I've never seen a good film based on a game before anyway, so I'm not so sour about him not being the next Andrei Tarkovsky.

So, whatever.

[Loki[D.d.G]]

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Originally Posted by swcarter Looking over at Rotten Tomatoes, I see that In the Name of the King currently has an impressive 0% score.

Wow, 0%. Thats it, I'll be going to the nearest cinema to watch it.

[dragon wench]

I read a review in our national newspaper, it was pretty funny.

It sounds like one of those movies you might go and see just for the cheese, and sitting back to poke fun at it

[Lady Dragonfly]

I've read a review titled Even Gamers Will Forego 'In the Name of the King' (Variety.com) that awarded one star to the movie.
Here are a few excerpts:

...Even while working with a $60 million budget, the infamous Uwe Boll lives down to expectations lowered by his earlier, cheaper vidgame-based pics. Even avid genre fans will wait for the DVD release.

Not quite bad enough to qualify as camp, yet entirely too lackluster to qualify as a guilty pleasure, "In the Name of the King" is a second-rate saga of swords and sorcery, bombast and boomerangs. Latter prove to be effective weapons of choice for a husky farmer named -- no kidding -- Farmer...

...Doug Taylor's script, loosely based on the "Dungeon Siege" vidgame, is a lazy mash-up of clichéd situations, grandiose speechifying and verbal anachronisms. But, then again, "In the Name of the King" is the sort of half-baked farrago that brings out the worst, or the least, in almost everyone involved.

Statham, Perlman and Rhys-Davies maintain a reasonable degree of professionalism without conspicuously exerting themselves, while Reynolds does everything but wink at the camera to indicate that he's just there for the paycheck.

On the other hand, some cast members try a tad too hard: Matthew Lillard (as King Konreid's weaselly nephew) and Liotta offer performances that indicate the actors spent long hours between takes flossing scenery from their teeth...


Now, I am curious: just how loosely this movie is "based on the game"? Is there any resemblance at all? Anything else besides the main character being a "farmer"? I don't even mention that the not-so-young "farmer" in the movie looks fat and bald... That is loose alright. What happened to the "young lad"?

[Loki[D.d.G]]

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Originally Posted by Lady Dragonfly What happened to the "young lad"?

You mean the young, fit lad?