Uwe Boll’s video game movies
A big reason video game movies have a bad reputation is because Uwe Boll was directing a handful of them in the early-2000s that were so bad they collectively turned the public against them.. Boll’s shoddy work on movies like Alone in the Dark, BloodRayne, and Far Cry became synonymous with why video game movies shouldn’t exist. He wasn’t working on huge franchises that would have had a lot of money behind them (with Far Cry maybe being the exception, though the series has become far bigger since the 2008 film), which meant he churned out a bunch of low-budget slop that set the tone for years of people groaning when they heard a movie adaptation was coming, even if he wasn’t involved. There were even petitions asking him to retire back in 2008. Boll eventually retired in 2016 and pivoted to the restaurant business but has since returned to filmmaking. — Kenneth Shepard
