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Top 10 Worst Video Game Movies
Mark Wahlberg stars in this weekend's number one film Max Payne, the latest in an almost unstoppable line of bad movies based on video games. TIME's look at the ten worst console to screen adaptations is like shooting fish in a barrel with a plasma cannon.
House of the Dead (2003)
Uwe Boll is the dark god of bad video game movies.
Since Hollywood has yet to make a good (or even decent) video game movie, that pretty much makes him top dog. Based on a light-gun arcade gameone of those ones in the movie theater lobby where one somehow acts out masculine shoot-em up fantasies while wielding a hot pink pistolHouse of the Dead employs a ridiculous premise. Teens in search of a hot island rave ask a smuggler to take them to said rave. Of course, everyone on the island is dead. Because there are zombies.
The thing to know about Boll, who is German, is that he can keep making movies because of a German tax shelter loophole he takes advantage of. By getting his financing from the German government, he is essentially able to write-off most of the film's losses. How a man smart enough to do that can continually make such unintelligible films is in itself a mystery.
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