Uwe Boll's Latest Cinematic Abortion
Some of you may have read about this but here's a link to IGN's story about it, which contains a link to the actual clip.
Short version, it's a "leaked" clip from Postal showing a guy cleaning the outside windows of an office building (presumably the WTC), then a large airliner crashing into him.
I'm not offended because I think 9/11 is sacred and untouchable, even if it is about as intrinsically funny as the Holocaust. I'm offended because it's simply not funny, and I know that he put that scene in there with the sole intent of offense. This isn't Borat here. This is heavy-handed, meaningless taunting. Satire is a difficult thing to do well, and Boll's proven time and time again that he's not good at ANYTHING having to do with movies.
Here's to hoping he's finally bitten off more than he can chew.
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I figured after they closed that tax loop-hole that no one would give him any money to make movies. Does anyone know if any of his movies have turned a profit?
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I know they closed the loophole, but I think he signed onto as many pictures as possible before it took effect, so we have a few more years of this dreck.
Drek? What about Dungeon Siege! He promised it'd be epic! As good as Hero, House of Flying Daggers, and Lord of the Rings COMBINED, and with THREE sex scenes!
It's gonna RAWK. ...
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Apparantly the DVD's do very well.
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I have a terrible confession to make... I bought a Uwe Boll DVD. with money. I picked up Bloodrayne, only because it came with the game for almost half the price of what I could buy it for in stores. (Yes, i KNOW I could have shopped around more.) The young girl behind the till looked at me like I had just stepped off the short bus and drooled on her lunch or something. Seriously, it was like she hated me for even daring to bring it to the counter. The audacity. I did stammer through an explanation... "well it comes with the game.. and it'll be fun to watch ... drunk... I guess...heh heh...um.... " ...before scurrying away with my ourchase and my tail beteeen my legs.
metaphorically.
I really do like the game, it's very underrated... but the movie... oh lord. I didn't finish it, anyway. I hate to think that the anal horribility of the movie has pretty much chrushed the game franchise, considering that the end of part 2 left it open for a pretty cool sequel.
I can't even imagine how horrible Postal is going to be. It'll be worse than Spaced Invaders, Meet the Feebles, Santa with Muscles and Cool as Ice combined. Offensiveness without humor is just embarrassing.
I am also Megalibra on Xbox Live. Yes, I am. Go ahead and add me as a friend so I can pop up when you're about to break an achievement in Geometry Wars and bugger up your game.
I love both those things!
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Hate to break it to you, uwe, but the WTC had machines that washed the windows. Took 1 week per side of each building. I refuse to watch due to the obvious historical inaccuracies.
WTF is a uwe?
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Out of all my friends, there is only one who has bothered trying to watch a Uwe Boll movie. He turned off House of the Dead twenty minutes into it. Every now and then I have one too many drinks and think it would be a good idea to go out and rent a Uwe Boll movie just for laughs. Everyone just refuses to drive me to the video store to pick one up. Friends don't let friends drink and watch Uwe Boll movies.
Lobster Mobster:I find that f*cking a nice stinky cheese is an experience everyone should have at least once in their life.
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We shall grapple with the ineffable, and see if we may not eff it after all.
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You... YOU specifically... are the reason the terrorists hate us! Well, not me, I'm in Canada. But they hate you guys pretty good. And Megalibra is to blame!
Bwahaha.
I agree with Lobster: This is great. It will hopefully mean that he gets blackballed. Then again, who's releasing this? I have a funny feeling the bank will force it to be a last-minute cut. Maybe Uwe will take a stand due to his artistic integrity.
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Discussing the Postal movie doesn't make sense. That one was totally made to do nothing but offend. 9/11 sequence inclusive. Sadly enough, so far it seems to work out because websites reported on this heavily instead of ignoring it like they should have.
It's kinda like a grue, but instead of being eaten, it makes you want to kill yourself if you're in a dark place with one of it's movies.
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I'm more interested in talking about what's going on and what Uwe thinks he's doing instead of "beating" him by not giving him the reaction he desires. He'll never know how I feel about his movies, and even if, by some random chance, he reads this, I'm just one anti-fan out of millions.
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I'm also Canadian, as clearly noted... um, right beside me. That's the beautiful thing about being Canadian. You can do whatever you want, and people still blame Americans.
I am also Megalibra on Xbox Live. Yes, I am. Go ahead and add me as a friend so I can pop up when you're about to break an achievement in Geometry Wars and bugger up your game.
Except for the Americans; they'll blame terrorists and minorities instead.
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Fedaykin98 wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:
That actually made me laugh out loud. Great, just great
So hell did freeze over after all; Welcome to Skjold!
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Fedaykin98 wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:
Brief meeting/interview with Uwe Boll & David Jaffe. Jaffe is asked whether he'd want Uwe Boll to direct the God of War movie...and replies "....honestly, no..."!
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