Who can’t get enough of Uwe Boll, the loudmouth German director who hates everyone and everything? Good luck for us, then, as Mr. Boll is in the news again, bless his heart. The man is creating a video game, and he wants to call it 1968 Tunnel Rats. Swoon.
That up there is the game’s trailer. It looks to be a standard first person shooter, complete with sound effects straight out of GoldenEye for the N64. Oh, exploding helicopters! Intense!
Who knows, maybe the game—it’s scheduled to come out this fall—will be a simple romp that’s not altogether horrendous?
Uwe Boll is like a more fun, less harmful Jack Thompson, constantly spouting nonsense that we find love to pieces.
Mr. Boll’s latest awesome tirade is about the movie industry in general, and how it’s impossible to make any more in it. He singles out the handsomely paid megastars, the guys who make $20 million+ per film, as one of the primary reasons why the movie biz stinks on ice. (He wants a salary cap of $3 million per actor per film.) He wants to put pirates in jail for 20 years. He wants movie channels like HBO and Showtime to show more small, independent movies.
In other words, Mr. Boll is the bee’s knees.
We make fun of Uwe Boll quite a bit on here, mostly because he’s a horrible director who seems to specialize in destroying would-be cool films based on video games. Not only is he bad at making movies based on popular video games, but also movies of games that make you question why they’re made at all.
If any proof was ever needed of the suckitude that Boll puts out, one needs only look at last weekend’s free screening of Boll’s latest, a film adaptation of Postal.
So bad was this movie, especially a scene spoofing the 9/11 attacks, that 150 of the 200 attendees walked out. I’ve seen very few films bad enough that I’d walk out of — Spy Kids 3 and Speed Racer come to mind — but the idea that 150 people would walk out of a free screening is telling.
Please stop letting this man make movies, waste money, and ruin video games.
How could you hate him?
That Uwe Boll doesn’t like being in the news, he loves it! This time, Popular Mechanics caught up with the outspoken director, and got his take on Stride gum’s crusade against him. Stride’s scheme to get people to sign the petition against him (which only applies to video game adaptations), Boll says, would be like Obama offering people $10 to vote for him—illegally increasing their consumption benefit, in other words. See, four years of schooling and I can now link to random academic papers. Awesome.
Again, let me say that I have noting against Mr. Boll. In fact, I rather enjoy his “bite me” attitude. I look forward to more wackiness from the man.
A Grand Theft Auto movie would be “super interesting” for Mr. Uwe Boll, the German director of great movies such as House of the Dead and Postal. You may remember Mr. Boll for being a giant douche in every interview he gives, up to and including this latest one with New York magazine, where he extols his love for the GTA franchise, He admits, rather caustically, that, if the game is ever turned into a movie, it’ll likely go to a Michael Bay or a Brett Ratner, a big-budget, big explosion hack director. Sounds familiar.
Honestly, I can’t be bothered with “hating” a director, especially since I’ve never seen his movies. Just know that he’d love to direct a GTA movie, but that he feels he’d never be allowed to.
I don’t see what the problem is with German director Uwe Boll, but it probably has something to do with the fact that I haven’t seen one of his movies. Apparently everyone hates him and thinks he should stop making movies based on video games. He’s even gone as far as proclaiming that he would stop making movies if 1 million people signed a petition. Fair enough. Well, Stride Gum for some reason is jumping on the bandwagon and announced this morning that they will give out 1 million packs of gum if that petition reaches 1 million. There’s a deadline, though. The deal only applies if the goal is met by the 14th of this month. A downloadable coupon will be available to those who sign the petition on May 23.
Are his movies that bad?
