What were Michael Madson and Ben Kingsley thinking?

[Furiously]

An All-Star-Cast for "Bloodrayne": Kristanna Loken, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Rodriguez and Michael Madsen

Boll KG and Brightlight Pictures will commence principal photography for "BloodRayne", directed by Uwe Boll ("House of the Dead", "Alone in the Dark"), on August, 16th 2004 in Romania.

The video game heroine "BloodRayne" is brought to life on the big screen by talented and beautiful actress Kristanna Loken. Moviegoers worldwide remember her for her sensational perfomance in "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines" as the sexy but deadly T-X opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger.

This time Loken doesn't have to face an opponent made of steel and chrome but of flesh and blood. Her vampire opponent Kagan is no one else than Academy Award Winner Sir Ben Kingsley. Kingsley won an Oscar as Best Actor in 1982 for his gripping performance in Richard Attenborough's masterpiece "Gandhi".

To make this All-Star-Cast for "BloodRayne" complete, Boll KG and Brightlight Pictures engaged Michelle Rodriguez (Co-Star from "The Fast and the Furious", "Resident Evil" and "S.W.A.T.") as a vampire hunter of the secret Brimstone Society.

Malevolent looking and heavy set character actor Michael Madsen ("Reservoir Dogs", "Species" and "Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2") will play Vladimir.

Matt Davis (Co-Star from "Tigerland", "Blue Crush" and "Legally Blonde") and Will Sanderson ("Alone in the Dark", "Heart of America" and "House of the Dead") complete the cast.

The cast looks good. But, its Uwe "House of the Dead! I have a matrix camera!" Boll.  Tell me how bad this will be?

[kaid]

OW if its the dame guy who made house of the dead it is going to be SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO bad.

Prepare to stab your eyes out now.


kaid

[Ardent]

Michael Madsen is lucky any movie he makes actually gets released in theaters.

As for SIR Ben Kingsley ... "Sexy Beast" and "House of Sand and Fog" isn't enough to pay the mortgage? "Thunderbirds" wasn't a painful enough experience for you? What's next, the dramatic challenge of adapting Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing for the silver screen?

[HaemishM]

As for Michael Madsen, I only have one word: Species.

Uwe Boll, I've said more than enough about.

[Ironwood]

"Sensational Performance in Terminater 3".

Was there perhaps a different T3 that I missed ?  As far as I can tell, her only contribution to T3 was, er, looking hot and getting her ass out.


Sensational, perhaps, to some - but hardly a performance.

[Rasix]

As for Michael Madsen, I only have one word: Species.

Kingsley was in that too.  Horrible, horrible movie.  Good boobies, however.

[schild]

Sexy Beast was a great movie. I think Ben Kingsley does one good movie a decade and calls it quits.

In the 00s it was Sexy Beast.

In the 90s it was Searching for Bobby Fischer.

In the 80s it was Ghandi.

[Bunk]

Regarding Uwe Boll:

http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp01172005.shtml

[TripleDES]

Other games planned to be turned into shitty movies by Uwe Boll:
- Far Cry
- Hunter: The Reckoning

[sidereal]

I can't even conceive of the mindset that leads to a single person being tapped to do video game conversions consistently.  The people responsible must really believe that there's some kind of magical formula or process that must be invoked to take a video game plotline and turn it into a movie.  As opposed to the braindead obvious notion that it's just a piece of source material like any comic book or plot summary or sketch on a napkin or 10,000 page novel and the only reasonable standard should be 'can this guy direct movies well?' not 'can this guy direct video game movies?'  Why are such jackasses given multimillion dollar budgets?  Isn't there a shareholders' lawsuit in there somewhere?

[AOFanboi]

Ben Kingsley should be more careful, lest he end up doing a Raul Julia: Well-respected drama actor whose piece de finale ended up being this one.

Oh, the humanity! You know you are in trouble when the best actor is Kylie Minogue.

(I just noticed, he managed to finish a TV movie - Down Came a Blackbird - before croaking, so he ended on a somewhat more serious note.)

[Shockeye]

Oh, the humanity! You know you are in trouble when the best actor is Kylie Minogue.

Let me be frank.

What the fuck is wrong with you?

Really, what is it? Mommy didn't love you enough? You ate paint chips as a child? What?

How in the hell can you say Kylie Minogue is the best "actor" when Wes Studi was in the cast.

[Righ]

Sexy Beast was a great movie. I think Ben Kingsley does one good movie a decade and calls it quits.

In the 00s it was Sexy Beast.

In the 90s it was Searching for Bobby Fischer.

In the 80s it was Ghandi.

1993: Schindler's List.
1993: Dave.

Schindler's List was a remarkably good film, and Dave was a surprisingly fun film. In both, Mr. Kingsley was very good. 1993 was certainly his year.

[Shockeye]

1993: Schindler's List.
1993: Dave.

Schindler's List was a remarkably good film, and Dave was a surprisingly fun film. In both, Mr. Kingsley was very good. 1993 was certainly his year.

He didn't impress me in "Dave" because he wasn't given that much to do. He did get to wear a silly hat though.

I thought he was better in 1992's Sneakers.

[Nebu]

I think the thing that really demonstrates the talent of Kingsley is his breadth.  Ghandi to Shindler's List to Sexy Beast.  A very gifted and versatile actor in my humble opinion.

[Furiously]

When does Alone in the Dark Come out?

# Far Cry (2006) (announced)
# Hunter: The Reckoning (2006) (pre-production)
# Bloodrayne (2005) (post-production)
# Alone in the Dark (2005)
# House of the Dead (2003)
# Blackwoods (2002)
# Sanctimony (2000)
# Erste Semester, Das (1997)
# Barschel - Mord in Genf? (1993)
# Amoklauf (1992)
# German Fried Movie (1991)

I understand he also has the rights to Dungeon Siege: The Movie...

WOW - Meatloaf is in Bloodrayne too....And Billy Zane!

[Rodent]

I will always remember Kingsley for Ghandi and Shindlers List, I'm guessing Bloodrayne won't make the list.

[AlteredOne]

Aww come on, compared to the asstastic list of films Sir Sean Connery has spewed upon the world after winning an Oscar and being knighted, Sir Ben Kingsley could only do worse if he turned to porn.

[Righ]

Sean Connery has certainly demonstrated a willingness to work, no matter what the role. However, it has been luck of the draw, as he has continued to have some decent roles. In that regard, he shares the company of fellow British thespians Michael Caine and Christopher Lee. However, one actor who has seemingly stuck to roles in diabolical productions has been Rutger Hauer. Although he's still capable of making good movies in foreign languages, his Hollywood work has been atrocious ever since his fantasic role in Blade Runner brought him to our attention.

[WonderBrick]

My favorite Ben Kingsley movie, and overall one of my top 10 movies, is Death and the Maiden.

[stray]

However, one actor who has seemingly stuck to roles in diabolical productions has been Rutger Hauer. Although he's still capable of making good movies in foreign languages, his Hollywood work has been atrocious ever since his fantasic role in Blade Runner brought him to our attention.

Well, there's also the Hitcher and Flesh and Blood. Apparently, he's in Sin City and Batman Begins as well. Maybe he won't stink those up.

[Righ]

Well, Rutger was good in the Hitcher and all, but the movie stunk. Flesh and Blood? Doesn't count as Hollywood, seeing as it was a Spanish production with a nearly entirely European crew. But it was good, I'll grant you that. :)

[Llava]

I can't even conceive of the mindset that leads to a single person being tapped to do video game conversions consistently.  The people responsible must really believe that there's some kind of magical formula or process that must be invoked to take a video game plotline and turn it into a movie.  As opposed to the braindead obvious notion that it's just a piece of source material like any comic book or plot summary or sketch on a napkin or 10,000 page novel and the only reasonable standard should be 'can this guy direct movies well?' not 'can this guy direct video game movies?'  Why are such jackasses given multimillion dollar budgets?  Isn't there a shareholders' lawsuit in there somewhere?

Games aren't taken seriously by the general public for reasons both valid and otherwise.  Games are continually sinking into the hole that comics dug in the 90's- a victim of its own X-TREME attitude.  Look at Prince of Persia.  They turned Spider-Man into Spawn.

Doesn't help with notables in the industry going around comparing story lines in games to story lines in porn films.  "Expected, but ultimately unnecessary."  They make these films thinking that the average gamer is so unbelievably stupid that we'll spend money on them.  And guess what?  A lot of us do.

They don't treat it like source material, because they don't consider them "real" films.  They're pandering.  Only 13 year old boys play games anyways, right?

[Llava]

I understand he also has the rights to Dungeon Siege: The Movie...

I sent an email to Chris Taylor in disbelief about that, asking him to assure me that it was entirely about the money and that he really didn't expect the film to be good, here's his response:

"Ha!  Funny.  Well, he does have the rights, and it never hurts that
we continue to get the name of the game out there.  If the film is well
made, we'll get lots of exposure, and if it's bad, well, nobody ever hears
about bad movies... do they?"

Now, I can see his point.  It's really not going to hurt his audience for Dungeon Siege 2 or even 3 if there will be one.  Anybody who judges the game by this film probably doesn't know about the game or have enough interest to buy it anyways.

On the other hand, it's another drop in the bucket increasing the general perspective of gamers as brainless idiots who will play anything, watch anything, and pay you money to do it.  But it's not exactly Chris Taylor's personal battle to fight, so I can't blame him for taking a shot at getting a little extra pocket money.  Sort of like Alan Moore's interaction with Hollywood, "Here's the good version of the story, fuck it up all you like.  I really don't care, I already got my check."

But really... a Dungeon Siege movie.  God, I am so full of hatred and Uwe Boll is right at the apex.

[Riggswolfe]

Well, Rutger was good in the Hitcher and all, but the movie stunk. Flesh and Blood? Doesn't count as Hollywood, seeing as it was a Spanish production with a nearly entirely European crew. But it was good, I'll grant you that. :)

I liked him alot in Ladyhawke as well. He was in this low budget sci-fi horror flick from England that I really liked. I mostly remember it had Kim Catrall in it and a cheesy monster that was supposed to be pure evil or something.

Cheesy movie but I love it for some reason.

Edit: Found the name. Split Second. Early 90s movie.

[murdoc]

Happily stole this from another message board

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383222/
Kingsley Splits From Rational Decision-making After Cheque Clears
August 12th 2004 (BALLZ)
Oscar-winning actor Sir Ben Kingsley today announced that, following a trial seperation, he would be splitting from his common sense permanently. "Things became frayed between myself and my common sense after I signed to appear in Thunderbirds", said the star. "I thought it would be fun, despite my common sense insisting that it would be wretched shite".
Sources close to the actor believe that although his previously close relationship with common sense had led him to critical acclaim in ambitious movies such as Ghandi and Sexy Beast, Kingsley felt he was missing out on the sort of "paycheck" roles in cheap genre movies that contemporaries such as Tony Todd and Arnold Vosloo enjoyed. "It was then I knew I had to work with Uwe Boll", he told reporters, "And subsequently my common sense and I are no longer on speaking terms.
Friends of Kingsley, who was knighted in 2002, fear that the split will now strain his relationship with his self-esteem. "He's threatening to go for the villain role in Cody Banks 3", sobbed one former associate. "He's a fucking idiot", said another.

[Big Gulp]

Aww come on, compared to the asstastic list of films Sir Sean Connery has spewed upon the world after winning an Oscar and being knighted, Sir Ben Kingsley could only do worse if he turned to porn.

Let us not forget Michael Caine and Jaws IV:  The Revenge.  The one where the shark roars.  The one where Michael Caine while getting back in the boat after falling out is bone dry.

Of course, I forgive Michael Caine because he was the best thing about my favorite movie ever, The Man Who Would Be King.  He's also pretty frank about the fact that he's not above ho'ing himself out for the money.  As long as he's straight about that fact and not droning on about his love for the craft I'm apt to forgive him.

[WayAbvPar]

I will forever love Michael Caine for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Much as I will forever be scarred from seeing him liplock with Christopher Reeve in Deathtrap. Partially countered from seeing him with a nubile Michelle Johnson in Blame it on Rio, but still- macking on Superman is just wrong. It was bad enough when it was Margot Kidder.

[stray]

Partially countered from seeing him with a nubile Michelle Johnson in Blame it on Rio

Hmm, that had quite the opposite effect on me. Or are you saying it's as bad as the Reeve thing? I'm confused.

Michael Caine pissed me off for years because of that movie -- I was pretty young when I first saw it, but I just couldn't come to grips with how an old bastard like Michael Caine should even be allowed near chicks that hot. I've since warmed up to his talents all (and realized that there are worst crimes in the world -- like Ron Jeremy), but Blame it On Rio is still on my list of "films that should have never been made".

[SirBruce]

I will forever love Michael Caine for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

Blame It On Rio for me.

Bruce

[Murgos]

You know your movie is bad when it makes your wife cheat on you...
Really Long Link

[Llava]

"It came at a very, very vulnerable time for me and I was deeply, deeply shocked because until then I had no idea."

There has to be a clever remark about him being vulnerable being relating to how bad this film is, but I'm too lazy to think it up right now.

[HaemishM]

He must have just seen the first Bloodrayne dailies, went to the Net to search for consolation pr0n and found those pictures.

[Zetleft]

She Lusts

[Train Wreck]

How shocking can it really be when your wife refuses to live in the same country as you?