uwe boll goes \"postal\" over postal

uberdark

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i hate this guy, i hate his movies, and stopped after house of the dead. what a loser. i can only hope he finds out who i am and challenges me to a boxing match so i can laugh at him and walk away. hehehe.










Uwe Boll goes Postal about Postal German director Uwe Boll has never been a man to retain a quiet dignified silence when criticised--and this time the fact that Postal is only set to open on four screens this week in the US has really got his goat.

Writing on the film\'s official Web site, he bashes Bush, Michael Bay, and Hollywood\'s current output. Boll, disappointed that only a few cinemas have agreed to show Postal in the US, argues that his film is being boycotted by cinemas because of its controversial subject matter.

He writes, \"To all of you writing now about me and the fact that Postal is not getting screens…It\'s fun kicking a guy nonstop who is on the ground. You are all not getting that I\'m the guy who made it big against the big Hollywood system and you are all only busy to destroy me and finish me up…you want only movies like Jumper, Speed Racer, What Happens in Vegas? Then keep going and your dreams will be fulfilled.\"

Boll continues to say that he believes Postal shows \"the big picture,\" which is that US President George W. Bush \"used September 11 to start a war against a country that had nothing to do with Bin Laden…What happened in America in the last seven years is the biggest joke since Columbus stepped on that land.\"

Postal starts with two terrorists on September 11 about to fly a plane into the World Trade Center, when they start to suspect that there may not be enough virgins left in the afterlife for them to get their deal of 99 virgins each when they die. They decide to abandon the idea, and fly to the Bahamas instead, but the passengers overpower them and it ends up hitting the World Trade Center anyway. It is based on the 2003 first person shooter Postal2.
 

Zora

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Ugh.

Seriously, even I didn\'t like a couple of his movies, and I can find something to like about most anything...
 

darthfoley

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There\'s an epetition going to get him to stop making movies. He\'s said publicly if it hits 1 million signatures he\'ll stop. lol
 

matty1001

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That bloke is a complete waste of time.
I\'m pretty sure his films are meant to be utter shite and due to some German law, or contract technicality he (and the investors) walk away with a pile of cash.

Kind of like what the characters were doing in The Producers.
 

Swordwind

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Originally posted by matty1001
That bloke is a complete waste of time.
I\'m pretty sure his films are meant to be utter shite and due to some German law, or contract technicality he (and the investors) walk away with a pile of cash.

Kind of like what the characters were doing in The Producers.

Thats the long and short of it. There\'s some loophole in German law that says if a German filmmakers film tanks at the box office they pay for the production cost and the director and investors get to keep any profit it makes. So if it costs £40,000,000 to make Bloodrayne 4: The Bloodening but only makes £30,000 then the German tax payer foots the bill for £40,000,000 and Boll and his cronies have an instant profit of £30,000. Even if only one person goes to see his movie he\'s still going to win. Its better for him to make a utter shite film in the knowledge that it\'ll go down like the Hindenburg than risk making one that could actually work.

Though I hear the German Government are rapidly working on closing down that loophole :D
 

Yramrag

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I have no idea who Uwe Boll is apart from the fact that everyone says how much of an @r$ehole he is.

Seriously though, what movies has he made that i may have heard of?
 

COG

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Originally posted by Yramrag
I have no idea who Uwe Boll is apart from the fact that everyone says how much of an @r$ehole he is.

Seriously though, what movies has he made that i may have heard of?

pic a shite a$$ movie made off a video game in the last 3 years and its uwe boll
oh and heres the rest of his .... things (i cant call them movies Uwe Boll sucks
 

Yramrag

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Wow. Those are really bad movies. Those are the ones that when i am at the video store, i go absolutely no where near them.

I guess it is too hard to come up with original ideas for movies so it is easier to make movies of computer games.
 

supervike

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But, the amazing thing is he continues to get \'names\' in his films.

Not huge actors, but recognizable names.

He is doing something right, apparently.

(believe me, I\'m not defending his tripe films)

But, he must have the right connections to continually get studios, finaceers, and actors working for him.
 

Sand Rat

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How is he making money off the German government? He no longer resides there - and even has stated he left Germany for Canada because the government control of the movie industry in Germany was to close to censorship or some such shyte -

Heres the article -

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2008/05/17/5598036-cp.html
 

philologus

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I\'ve never heard of the dude. I looked at the film list, and I\'ve never heard of any of them. I\'m glad I haven\'t judging from the feedback here.
 

Ebonbuddha

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I watched Bloodrayne and House of the Dead. I watched House of the Dead twice because I couldn’t believe how terrible it was.
 

Dragonsreach

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Staff member
Originally posted by philologus
I\'ve never heard of the dude. I looked at the film list, and I\'ve never heard of any of them. I\'m glad I haven\'t judging from the feedback here.
Ditto.
 

No Such Agency

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Originally posted by matty1001
That bloke is a complete waste of time.
I\'m pretty sure his films are meant to be utter shite and due to some German law, or contract technicality he (and the investors) walk away with a pile of cash.

Kind of like what the characters were doing in The Producers.
I have also heard this. It is explained here as long as you don\'t mind reading a sordid tale of shell companies and tax loophole exploitation. At any rate he is apparently a grade-A douche bag:

Uwe Boll has released a video stating that he is \"the only genius in the whole fucking [movie] business\" and that other directors such as Michael Bay and Eli Roth are \"fucking retards\". He promises that his upcoming film Postal will be \"way better than all that social-critic George Clooney bullshit that you get every fucking weekend.\" He has also expressed hopes that somebody will start a Pro-Uwe Boll petition, which he is sure will hit a million signatures.[41]. (from Wikipedia)
 

supervike

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Apparently the guy succeeds at keeping his name in the limelight, although had we any sense, we\'d sweep it under the rug.
 

Farin

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well i watched the trailer for postal and believe me, it´s the kind of movie where every dollar was wasted. It´s a senseless massacre without any plot, just violence , nonstop... - it´s just disgusting.

the problem is that he buys all the licences for the videogames, and since only a few people even know this guy, there are always people who accidentally walk into one of his movies or buy the dvd, because hey it´s alone in tthe dark or bloodrayne. plus let´s face it the kind of people voluntarily watching movies about half-naked vampire girlies killing nazis
( bloodrayne ) isn´t the kind of people who want meaning or a highly complicated backstory, they want action. that´s why - believe it or not - alone in the dark made it number 1 of the german dvd charts

and about the german goverment - i just checked it, out of curiosity . unfortunately its right , the production costs are covered by the the german state where they are filmed ( bavaria, berlin ), but it must be paid back if possible, its a credite - so yeah if it fails at the box office we got to pay for it. (by the way, they also support foreign movies filmed in germany with money , tom cruises valkyrie got several millions ). theyre WAS also a loophole alowing him to make movies for free but it was closed

@Uberdark you missed your chance ! not kidding, uwe boll DID a boxing match against a critique
here
is a link just scroll down, there´s also a youtube link. i saw parts of it in a german tv show, but can´t remeber it´s outcome. Maybe you got a second chance someday. believe me this guy deserves it to be beaten up . Saw an interview with him and the sheer amount of bullshit coming out of his mouth was incredible.
 

darthfoley

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Originally posted by Farin
@Uberdark you missed your chance ! not kidding, uwe boll DID a boxing match against a critique

From what I\'ve read, he has actually had several matches against various critics. He has won all of them. However, he is very selective about who he will take on, usually (it seems) only agreeing to the fights if he is younger, \'fitter\', etc. A couple of the people who stepped up to the challenge were bigger than him and he backpedaled quickly. lol

It never ceases to amaze me how people that are completely out of their head can still manage to be in charge of ANYTHING, much less multi-million dollar productions like his \'movies\'. We were talking about this nutcase on my costuming group\'s forums and it\'s amazing when you think of the money he has lost on his movies, and yet people still keep letting him make more.

He actually approached Blizzard about making a WoW movie and they said \'We aren\'t selling the movie rights...not to you...ESPECIALLY not to you.\'

:beer:
 
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