When someone said, “I yelled at the screen through that whole movie”, we knew we were on the right track. When we saw Jason Statham, Ron Perlman, and Ray Liotta together…in a sword and sorcery flick…from the director of the Blood Rayne movies….with Matthew Lillard and Burt Reynolds…well, there might have been cackling.
This one is available on Netflix.
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I had to go look this movie up on the Wikipedia. Ugh, what a wreck. It cost about $60 million to make in 2007, and has grossed only $10.3 million worldwide in the seven years since. Rotten Tomatoes lists it as one of the worst reviewed films of the Naughts, and a 2008 article in Time listed it as one of the ten worst video game to movie adaptations ever. In DVD sales, the movie has grossed almost $15 million, more than its gross in the theaters, probably driven by midnight movie showings and mock the movie parties. And as if that wasn’t frightening enough, there have been TWO sequels, both by the same director.
I’m in!
Of course. It’s an Uwe Boll film, which means its premise is lifted straight from The Producers. It’s supposed to lose money, as a tax shelter.
Gregory @1:
Yes, that’s all true, but it was really fun, in a trainwreck sorta way. 🙂
Wait, there’s sequels? Off to Netflix!! 😀
I have a question: how powerful can madness be?
So I found parts II and III on Netflix! Part II stars Dolph Lundgren, so you can imagine how gloriously bad that was.
I will be watching part 3 sometime this weekend.
And John Rhys-Davies is in it too. Of course.