After seeing Alone in the Dark, I think I'll skip House of the Dead :)
Anyway... so far we've entirely left out the Final Fantasy movies. Two totally different movies:
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within: a loosely on the Final Fantasy universe (as far as one exists) based scifi CG movie, in which earth is attacked by strange phantoms.
The two big problems with this movie were that it tried to push realistic CG animation and that it used a few too many asian culture themes for western audiences.
Realistic graphics are still very hard to do and even today, most movies try to avoid the realistic look if at all possible. Final Fantasy tried and the outcome was amazing (this was 2001!), but not quite photo-realistic. Back then CG wasn't mainstream yet and people had trouble accepting the CG characters and their complex emotions.
The other problem was the Asian heritage. Stories of ghosts, planetary forces and so on may be easy to swallow for a Japanese audience, but western people get pretty irritated as such beliefs have not been part of our culture for almost 2000 years. Also, there are just certain (western) story-requirements that the movie doesn't follow:
1. There has to be a bad guy
2. The heroes always live.
An indicator was when I went to see the movie and during the last scene where a platform brings Aki up to the planet surface, holding a lifeless Grey in her arms, I heard two people whisper: "He's not dead, is he?" - "No, of course not!"
Yes, he was dead. He died in the previous scene, but still those people expected him to stand up. And in a western movie, he would have...
However, if you are willing to accept the CG characters and sometimes strange storylines, you'll find a very enjoyable movie.
Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children on the other hand is a direct movie conversion of the Final Fantasy 7 universe. This one doesn't try to be realistic (although the animation style itself is far from cartoonish) and the story is kept to a minimum. However it suffers from a bad English translation and it requires you to actually know Final Fantasy 7 to fully appreciate it.
At it's heart, FF7AC focuses more on over the top fight scenes than on anything else. And that's really all there is to it: If you love the fights, you'll like the movie. Otherwise, you won't.

Should I have played FF7 to enjoy Advent Children? I kind of want to see it but was never able to enjoy FF7. The fighting looked pretty fun though, which is kind of why I want to see it, I don't mind a style over substance film at all, I do own Domino after all and thoroughly enjoyed it.

The funny thing is that Boll is one of the few crap directors to become actually famous.
I even like his films. You exactly get what you expect, nothing much. In my opinion the only difference between him and any other generic hollywood cashcow director is the amount of cash to throw around.

It would definitely help as the absence of a real story won't allow you to explore the characters very well... but it will still be a very entertaining fighting movie.

Sorry, I just had to resurrect this thread. I just saw my first (and undoubtedly last) Uwe Boll movie: Bloodrayne...
What an unbelievable piece of crap! How he managed to get that cast together is beyond me. Ben Kingsley, for crying out loud! And somehow, he made them act extremely poorly too, however he managed that. The script was a mess, the cinematography appalling, and the special effects unbelievably poor.
I have to say that the man definitely deserves his reputation as the worst director in recent history.

I personally think Uwe Boll is the Ed Wood of our generation. His movies are awful, but that doesn't stop him from pumping out film after film. You've got to admire someone like that, in a weird sort of way.

I saw the Postal movie, and I actually laughed. Oh shit.

you started off on the wrong foot, go watch the Postal Movie, and let that be your last Uwe Boll movie.

for every movie BUT Postal.

Postal is best movie from Uwe. there are 2 reasons for that.
1. There's not much of a plot in the games for him to butcher.
2. Uwe gets removed from genepool.
Rest of his movies aren't that good

He didnt make the First Mortal Kombat.

Postal is a semi-masterpeice.

And I'm really glad he didn't make it!The first Mortal Kombat was respecting the game:a tournament to save the Earth from an evil badass with the ancient god of lightning played by Christophe Lambert.MK isn't serious at all,the characters are caricatural just like the original game so it's a must see!
Anyway,I haven't seen any movies by Uwe Boll.The trailer of Far Cry was enough for my eyes to bleed and the remnant of my sanity to be lost in the limbs.Right now,I'm laughing each time I see one of his dvd in France.We have Far Cry,Alone in the Dark,House of the Dead and the film he made from Dungeon Siege (I heard he butchered the absence of scenario of the original game.Anyone who has seen the "film" and is still alive can confirm this?).But I think he should continue on his way,like this young directors can see what they mustn't do!^^

Heh, this could be the world's smallest fanclub.. ever.