DISQUS

AngryBroomstick · 2 weeks ago

haha. but on the other hand... how many Uwe Boll fans can actually spell?

super_aj · 2 weeks ago

ugh. This looks like a student film.

Landon_Palmer · 2 weeks ago

ZANE!!!

Landon_Palmer · 2 weeks ago

That Uwe Boll mouthpiece character is absolutely right, what if it was your kid? Never in my life have I thought about the plight of others in those terms before. Empathy, what a novel idea!

RobertFure · 2 weeks ago

Roman Polanski can ass rape a child and still be a great director, but some editor (probably foreign with english as a second language) doesn't spell check and Uwe Boll is a terrible filmmaker? Please, making fun of Uwe Boll is so hip it's unhip.

Making fun of the "what if it's your child" line or whatever? How many films has that been in before? How many serious directors, writers, and actors have put that in a movie, word for word?

Check out Postal, Seed, and Tunnel Rats. Until you've seen those 3 films, you have no ability to comment on Uwe Boll as a story teller or director. He's not that bad. His reputation isn't even that bad if you just look at his English language films. Dungeon Siege and the 2 Bloodrayne movies are his worst. House of the Dead was average level sci-fi but his last few movies haven't been bad at all.

I'm over Boll bashing. Anyone who does it is just trying to get in their free cheap shots on an approved target.

cradlebaker · 2 weeks ago

i actually agree with you, when he doesn't work off of game source material he can be ok, never great by any means, but he has some movies that are passable entertainment.

sgtzim · 2 weeks ago

The difference is that Polanski IS a great director who happens to have ass raped a child, and Uwe Boll IS a terrible director who happens to have a spelling error in his trailer.

I don't think anyone's implying that the spelling error makes him a bad director, the way you're implying that sodomizing a child makes Polanski a bad one. These things have nothing to do with their directing ability.

RobertFure · 2 weeks ago

I brought up Polanski because, despite his ass raping, people still praise and defend. Boll has a spelling mistake in his trailer and Cole seems like the good Dr. Uwe just punched a toddler in the eye. Very venomous.

sgtzim · 2 weeks ago

Sodomizing a 13 year old makes him a bad person, not a bad director. Learn to separate the person from their accomplishments. People are defending and praising his films, hopefully, not his actions.

The ridicule of Boll doesn't really come off as venomous. He seems to know his movies suck, and plays up an exaggerated version of himself in interviews, making ridiculous claims that any sane person couldn't possibly believe. He's a goof who makes crap films, and he'll never be taken seriously as a director. That's all there is to it, really.

RobertFure · 2 weeks ago

But his movies aren't all crap. I 100% honestly enjoyed Postal. I thought it was great. Seed was also good. I've heard good things about Tunnel Rats and "Rampage" got good reviews from some notable online critics.

He was like 2 terrible films, 2 bad films, 1 "bad but enjoyable" film, and a handful of good ones. People make fun of him because its acceptable. You can't mock Steven Spielberg.

sgtzim · 2 weeks ago

Spielberg made 'Hook' and 'The Terminal', so even he's not beyond mocking now and then, but Boll will never ever make a movie comparable to Schindler's List, Saving private Ryan, Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark or Close Encounters. In Spielberg's case, the greats outnumber the stinkers by a wide margin, and his greats are classics. So yeah, you can rib him for certain films, but like him or not, you have to have immense respect for what he's accomplished.

Boll films, on the other hand, are generally the worst of the worst and he's the laughing stock of the film world. I've heard Postal is actually decent, but I wonder how much of that is just people bring surprised that it isn't terrible like the rest of his films. So if it IS good, then maybe this is a new beginning for him, but I doubt he can overcome his awful reputation at this point, no matter how many non shitty films he does from now on...

ZB · 2 weeks ago

"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"

That's really all I have to say about that.

Jim_Rohner · 2 weeks ago

I don't like making fun of Uwe Boll because it's hip. I like making fun of Uwe Boll because he's a bad director. Good directors will have multiple good films with a few bombs here and there. Boll has made many bad films (calling House of the Dead "average level sci-fi" is giving it WAY too much credit) with an occasional acceptable one. People don't fun of Spielberg because his bad films are exceptions to the rule. People make fun of Uwe Boll because his good films are exceptions to the rule.

RobertFure · 2 weeks ago

I think Boll has been on a pretty decent roll lately, the Boll Roll, turning in like 3-4 actually decent movies. For "House of the Dead" I think if you took out the video game inserts it would instantly be 20% better and if there was less of the bullet time it would be 10% better. I rewatched it not all that long ago and was surprised at how not terrible it was.

Aleric · 2 weeks ago

This has been going on for over 40 years in Africa, its a little late to act like this is something new. Unless someone wants to commit a full invasion of most of these countries and the next 10 years trying to clean it up then a film is not going to change reality.

Sorry Uwe but I stopped caring about Africans killing each other a long time ago.

RobertFure · 2 weeks ago

I don't think Boll is trying to save the world. Hotel Rwanda (2004), Rambo (2008), Darfur Now (2007), and Tears of the Sun (2003) are all about genocidal atrocities that happened years ago, most of which still happen today, so it's not like Boll is alone here.

I just don't see why everyone is attacking Boll for shit everyone else does. He's a huge scapegoat.

Aleric · 2 weeks ago

Boll isn't showing us anything new or offering a way to correct the situation. He is simply showing the killings for shock value.

Tears of the Sun had a resolution and actual involvement by the actors in defending and in some cases dealing back the violence that was being dished out in the tribal wars going on to this day.

RobertFure · 2 weeks ago

We don't know what the main pull of this movie will be. Who knows if it will make a valid point at the end or not?

Christopher_M · 2 weeks ago

did anyone else notice the Scottish actor from Wanted & Departed is in this as well?

Erkenbrand · 2 weeks ago

I agree: You have to diferentiate between the director and the man. You can be an asshole and still make great films... Adolf Hitler was a pretty good painter and architectural visionary, I am told.