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This Ain't No Game

This Ain't No Game: TANG: Alone in the Dark

Ryan steels himself against the things that go bump in the night.

Your look into the world of video game movies and the Wonderful Universe of movies with video game themes.

Sep. 3 2009

Cast: Ryan

Posted by: Vinny

In This Episode:

Alone in the Dark

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Edited By GeekyDad

Kinda meh. Perhaps if the movie was worse, this episode would have been more entertaining. Are you sure you're scraping the bottom of the Boll?

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People keep buying his movies, and actually going to watch them in theatres
For the love of god STOP giving the man money

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Edited By Brake

Seven seconds away, I'll be waiting...
 
That's some sexy sex right there.

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@Resident4t: Actually, I think it's Germany whos giving him money. :P
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Sorry to say Ryan. You got it closer than she did but you still pronounced it a little wrong.

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Edited By Yummylee

because of the higher production values AiTD got, it then took it out from its ''its so bad its good'' to just ''its so its just so....god-raping bad'' =/
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This series just gets better and better; you are doing a great job, Ryan Davis!

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Christ's sake, is Boll the most successful horrible film maker of all time?  These films are barely of ScyFy caliber in terms of production value.  I love that Davis touches on the goddamned overlighting, and of course the associated irony in this case, as it's pervasive in all of the Boll reviews I've watched.  If he'd get the message that overlighting does only the opposite of masking the fact that his sets are childishly small and his props are corny, he may actually make it back inside the wrong end of the bell curve someday. 
 
Ed Wood of our generation, without even a Bela Legosi to explain his success.  I suppose when video games finally die, Boll will return to the mist.  I can't wait for Tim Burton's biopic of this assclown when that day comes.    

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Goddamn I hate the fact that I've seen more Uwe Boll movies than anyone should. I've seen 3, and that's about 3 too many.
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@CoverlessTech said:

" I love it when people try to correct other people's pronunciation and pronounce the word wrong themselves.  Like others have said it's more like noufunLAND. Land is where the emphases lies, I really don't care how you pronounce the newfound part but land is always land, never lend(as Ryan said)   Newfoundland Newfinland Noufunland  Is all good in my book. I actually prefer the way Tara Reid pronounce it to the way Ryan did. It's Land, not Lend. I say Noufunland. Yes, I'm from Newfoundland. "

I dont really care how you pronounce Newfoundland since I dont know but acording to wikipedia its Njufinland
 
Also, I have a hard time thinking that (New)foundland is pronaunced the same way as Finland so all ways are good except the way Ryan says it.
 
Also Land is not always land(yes I know you meant whit Newfoundland but I just wanted to bust your balls)
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@CoverlessTech said:

" I love it when people try to correct other people's pronunciation and pronounce the word wrong themselves.  Like others have said it's more like noufunLAND. Land is where the emphases lies, I really don't care how you pronounce the newfound part but land is always land, never lend(as Ryan said)   Newfoundland Newfinland Noufunland  Is all good in my book. I actually prefer the way Tara Reid pronounce it to the way Ryan did. It's Land, not Lend. I say Noufunland. Yes, I'm from Newfoundland. "

It is never pronouned New-Found-Land.  I'm from Ontario, I'm not even from Newfoundland.  But if I heard a Canadian pronounce it New-found-land, I would laugh.  This has never happened to me, because I've never met anyone so daft.  In Tara Reid's defence, and everyone on the set at the time who should maybe have corrected her, It is mildly forgiveable for an American not to recognize the proper pronounciation.
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Best review so far.

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Edited By Seedofpower

New Found Land...........
 
....wow.

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Does anybody else see the irony of all the newfies talking about pronunciation?

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@MrMuise said:
" Does anybody else see the irony of all the newfies talking about pronunciation? "
hahaha
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The sex scene music isn't near as hilarious as what the used in Watchmen
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@JukeboxJoe: I disagree. It fitted.

I'm kinda sad Ryan hadn't blasted the awful script. I sugget reading about it's writing (I think it's on Something Awful, I bet Wikipedia still has a link to it), it gives a new view on what a fuckwad Boll is.

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new
found
land
 
epic

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You pronounced tara wrong :p

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That hard-rockin' gunfight was awesome. Best part of the movie. It's so wonderfully cheesy.

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Needs more TANG!

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Edited By ververdan0226

Funny passage from the Wikipedia entry on Boll's next movie:
 
" Stoic is an arthouse feature by Uwe Boll. The film is one of two dramas, the other Darfur, Boll plans to direct. Unlike many of his best known directorial efforts Stoic is not an adaptation of a video game."
 
It's an arthouse drama form Uwe Boll with Edward Furlong... so um, yeah...  see how that turns out...
 
Most emotionally involving, touching, gorgeous and ultimately poignant movie of the coming year???

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Ribit! Hi Guys! My name is Tara Reid! RIBIT RIBIT!

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I think the pronunciation of Newfoundland is fair game. It's three English words pretending to be a name. It's a loose loose, really, cause New Found Land sounds stupid, and Newfinland or Newfunlund don't appear to be what was intended upon it's naming.  

But like native New Yorkers who can only say N'Yoke, I feel it's better left up to interpretation.

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Th return of TANG. Hell Yeah!!!!!!!!!

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people give that guy copious amounts of money to make movies. Wow.

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Edited By WholeFunShow

I didn't know Newfoundland's (SP?)  pronounciation either.

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in Uwe's defense he was TOLD to put Tara Reid in the movie, it wasn't his choice... doesn't make it much better but.....

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Yeah guys! New Found Land! Haven't you been there before? It's great, you should go sometime!  
 
Awesome TANG.

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I like Uwe Boll being active in film making, it gives anyone hope that they can never make a shit film. 

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Once the endurance run ends you should make Jeff and Vinny watch the persona 3 anime for TANG. I'd like their thoughts on that acid trip. Also, Uwe makes the worst films. He's almost like an up tight porn director who thinks he's really making art.

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@Infernocow said:
" As a Newfoundlander, I resent that no-one...anywhere...ever...can correctly pronounce it.  
  noofin-land   Just think of this rhyme:  "It's Newfoundland, Understand?"  No New-finland, or Newfinluhnd.  New-fin-land Sorry...Touchy subject. "
I can say Newfoundland.  But, then again, I'm Canadian.
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Apparently there is a Director's Cut of this movie that came out in Germany were Boll removed all of the scenes with Tara Reid. 

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Gotta love that TANG. Ryan, we all love you for doing this :P

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Newfoundland is a place! wow she is really smart.

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As usual Ryan's insightful and funny at the same time. I watched the whole movie but don't remember why. Turd of turds.

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There is only one game (that i remember right now) that both the game and the movie were epic.. (any guesses?) 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Chronicles of riddick

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@Ishoturface said:
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There is only one game (that i remember right now) that both the game and the movie were epic.. (any guesses?) 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Chronicles of riddick

"
Agreed
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Ryan Davis fails at pronouncing New Foundland even worse than Tara Reid to be quite honest. Quite a feat!
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Chronicles of Riddick the film... was complete garbage.
 
You should've said GoldenEye.

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You know what's fucked up about this movie...besides everything? 
 
If Uwe Boll didn't direct it, and Tara Reid wasn't in it...it could've actually been a decent movie at least.

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@Ishoturface said:

Chronicles of riddick

If by Chronicles of Riddick you actually mean Pitch Black and Butcher Bay, then yes.
 
Also, and I cannot believe I'm typing this with a straight face.. the proper name for the province is now Newfoundland and Labrador.   "So where ya from?"  Yeah. Like that.
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@Delta_Ass said:
" Chronicles of Riddick the film... was complete garbage.  You should've said GoldenEye. "
Agreed. 
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Ain't nothin' but a TANG!

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Chronicles of Riddick (film) was a wee bit poor and nothing compared to Pitch Black.

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NEW-FIN-LAND!!! Nobody ever gets it right haha. But I agree, that Newfundlund sounds a hell of a lot less stupid than new-found-land. 
 
Most awesome place on earth though, it is all that matters!!

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Bravo Mr. Davis.  I can't help but feel relieved that I have never seen this movie, and I probably never will.  Nothing more frightening than being alone in the dark with the mythical  luchadeer creature.  I can't help but wonder if this is it for TANG.  I can't for the life of me think of another video game movie that isn't either an anime, or just thinly referential to video games.  Whatever the case I think TANG has been gold since it started and I'm excited to see what Giantbomb comes up with next.
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@Brackynews: Very true. I lived in Labrador once. Very glad I'm in Newfoundland again! In Labrador you can't even buy a console or game on its launch date.... and all the prices are marked up horribly. 
example: when PS3 came out, it took Labrador about 3 months after launch to finally get them, and they had them priced at $899. games, even now, can cost up to $109.99. It's quite pathetic, and I'm glad to be away from it. Although one town in the whole area now has a Walmart. Yes, one Walmart in all of Labrador. Sad. There is 4 I can think of off the top of my head in the city I live in now.
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Oh yeah Neufundland FTW :D
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Didn't show the knife throw. I'm sad now.