akun50 said:
I've heard that Dungeon Siege was actually one of his better movies, despite the stupid title.
Well, if a low budget, made-for-TV-quality, Power Rangers (American version, that is)-esque costuming and design cold be considered an improvement...
The biggest problem with Boll is the fact that he just doesn't accept criticism. People have been harking at him for years now over how mediocre his whole filming process is and how incompetent he is as a director, and his response is a German equivalent of 'Fuck you, go have sex vith a donkey Michael Bay'. And yes, that would probably account to what he would say, since a lot of his recent comments have been towards Michael Bay for some bizarre reason.
He thinks he's a misunderstood, maverick director that doesn't get credit or audience because of Hollywood and all their films, but unless incoherent plots, uneven movie pacing, and horrendous scripts that a group of us here could write better are supposed to be the new order of the day for films, he's an idiot with no qualifications to even touch a god damn camera.
I mean, there's no limit to his level of incompetency. For Alone in the Dark, Boll had rejected an early script because he had wanted more guns and action and -ugh- a sex scene, as opposed to a script that stuck to the source material and -surprise, surprise!- actually made sense.
For Bloodrayne, he had actually hired Romanian hookers to play the roles of...prostitutes...in the movie to save money. Well, gee, that was a brilliant idea Uwe. Now do you want to hear an even better one? Just suck it up and make a decent movie for a change, so that for a $25 million budget, you don't get only $2 million in return.
And then there was Postal and his boxing match. That, alone, already boggles my mind. Boll's been having critics tell him what's wrong with his movies for ages now. They've been hammering it in, and you think he'd finally figure it out?
No, but he hosts a boxing match to 'silence' his critics.
Ah gee, way to prove how much of a brilliant directorial genius you really are...
And about his boxing stunt, let's not forget how he chickened out from fighting Seanbaby when he learned the writer trained in jujutsu and Muay Thai.
Or in a more recent case how, in his claim of proving who's the better director (?), he wanted to challenge Michael Bay to a boxing match in Las Vegas.
So, is boxing now related to how good ones directing ability is? If so, we should probably give Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson an Oscar already.
I can keep going, but I've made my point.
We all hate Uwe Boll, myself included. I will dance the Haruhi dance when he decides to never make a movie ever again.
