From today's IMDb
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Filmmaker Challenges Critics to All-Out Brawl
German horror director Uwe Boll is so fed up with receiving bad reviews from movie critics he is challenging his detractors to a filmed fight. Boll, whose movies Alone In The Dark and House Of The Dead are based on video games, says he will fly his critics to meet him and will then fight them in a boxing ring. The filmmaker is incensed by an online petition which has 13,327 signatures of people asking him to stop making movies. Boll, who has also invited Roger Avary and Quentin Tarantino to join his fight, plans to air the fights on the internet. He the plans to edit clips into his latest film Postal. Boll says, "I'm fed up with people slamming my films without seeing them. Many journalists make value judgments on my films based on the opinions of one or two thousand internet voices. Half of those opinions come from people who've never watched my films. If critics want to bring Uwe Boll down, here is their chance to physically bring him down and have the entire world watch them do it."
Great idea!
Awful film maker
Just Checked and Gary Coleman is in it!!!
Supoib.
As I've said elsewhere I reckon this is one of the best publicity stunts of recent times
Should be pretty good. His argument that everyone who says he sucks is forming an opinion without seeing the movies doesn't really wash for me, as everyone who's seen the fucking things hated them too.
His actual complaint is that people are rating his movies on imdb before he's actually released them in cinemas, wilfully showing his ignorance of how people see legendarily bad films - through downloading screeners off the internet. I saw Bloodrayne several weeks before it fouled cinemas physically with it's Meatloaf/Billy Zane-stained presence, and I can confirm - if it was actually needed - that it is devoid of merit on any level as a film, a film script, or an exercise in gratuitous titty-shots of actresses. Even films which are so bad they're good have, at their core, a focus or brief that all concerned stick to - Boll's movies lack any kind of coherence or drive. Even basic enthusiasm on the part of scriptwriters can save a film where the direction, production and acting are lacking (see the Trancers or Phantasm films), but there is no part of Uwe Boll's production process that manages to drum up enthusiasm for any part of movie-making - and considering Kevin Smith can shoot a movie at night in a convenience store, or Sandy Collera (spl chk?) can make a convincing Batman vs Predator vs Alien movie in an alley, that really says something.
Notable that he spends more time defending these films than he does making them.
House of the Dead is perhaps one of the worst films I have ever seen.
House of the Dead is perhaps one of the worst films I have ever seen.
Totally agree but seeing it in a full cinema in the middle of an all night zombie marathon did make it one of the most entertaining films I've ever seen. It was so awful that people didn't feel they had to keep their opinions to themselves while it was being shown.
Ctl+Alt+Del hit the mark again...
Link: Tim vs Uwe
I bought Alone in the Dark for 1.99 from Blockbuster, and normally, evne if the film isn't great, 1.99 isn't such a loss is it?
I took it back and demanded my money back, as they could give me the 2 hours of my life that I had lost watching the drivel.
His films should come with a health warning!
It's annoying though, because a lot of movies that are terrible are incredibly entertaining at the same time, so until you see his stuff you expect it's that sort of deal. I saw House Of The Dead fully expecting it to be naff but a good laugh and I was bored out of my teeny tiny mind.
I'm guessing this has been posted before but I'd not seen it...
Link: Ctl+Alt+G
I've never seen any of his movies. So I haven't passed judgement on him yet.
Though I know they have had bad reviews and none of them screened in a cinema before going to video where I live.
Never the less, video nasties still have appeal to them. Even if it is just cheap.
I think he is going through a early Peter Jackson phase. He made some shockers before he did 'Lord of the Rings'. I think alot of movie makers went through tacky period in their humble origins.
I just don't like the look of this Bloodrayne chracter who has to be distantly related to the 2000AD character Durham Red. As I have been told they are not the same, despite obvious similarities.
Admnittly the damage was already done when this was made into a console game years ago. Thats really where the balme need to go.
Though I have been pretending this is a Durham Red movie.
Personally I don't think that Durham Red was ever interesting enough to be made into movie or console game on her own. As far as I see, I can only see her type of character work as a minor role besides the likes of Johhnny Alpha, Wulf and Midden Face and the rest of gang.
Anyway, Mr Boll can't be all that bad. He knows how to raise money for these mvoies. He still likes making them, so obviously they have been successful in other parts of the world for him to stay as long in the buisness as he has already.
The point, however, is that he CAN'T raise money for these movies outside a preferential tax system in Germany that effectively pays for 75 percent of the movie, as long as it's made in Germany with a German production crew. If the movie makes a profit, Boll claims it was a 'good' film, while if it makes a loss, it can be written off as a tax loss by the German government. Considering the average Chuck Norris movie makes a profit without any effort, it takes some doing to make a loss on a movie made for peanuts and with virtually no post-production costs dedicated to promotion.
They're just bad films. There's no conspiracy to deny the genius of Uwe Boll or anything, he's just a genuinely bad film-maker who doesn't care about the properties he adapts for the screen, and this comes across in the films themselves.
Peter Jackson may have started with low budget horror movies, but his stuff was full of invention and energy, no matter how cheap it was it was great and it was obvious that with a huge budget he was going to do something amazing. Uwe Boll is just shit. House Of The Dead had tits and zombies and I hated it, so it must have sucked pretty damn hard.