LEAVE UWE BOLL ALONE

[jason statham]

Before reading all the bashing over the net about Uwe Boll, i watched his 2 video game adaptations and HOTT was bad but Alone in the dark was really entertaining. Then, on one fine day, i went to check this german director on IMDB to see what is his next movie going to be, and i couldnt believe all those people, some are naming him a "Nazi" while others say he`s worst than Hitler which was extremely mean and rude, then people started to make sites just to post their hates as if one forum wasnt enough for them. This went on and on till the release of BloodRayne. First of all, let me just jay that BR, just liked Uwe Boll`s 2 previous movies, entered IMDB`s bottom 100 even before they were widely released.
Back to the movie,now this movie wasnt the best picture of the year, but, lets admit it, it was really fun to watch and you can see the improvement of his direction. I even know a lot of Uwe Boll haters who went to see it in the theatres during the short time it was there, and they enjoyed the hell out of it, they even bought the dvd, they watch it over and over again, and listen to his commentary track, but when they enter the internet, everything changes, they hate admitting that they liked the movie, cause they think its cool to hate and bash the guy just like everybody else. One common complain about Uwe Boll`s pictures is that he special effects and CGI is bad. Well, this doesn depend on the director, i mean you give Scorsese a million bucks and tell him to direct a CGI monsters slash em up movie, the CGI is STILL going to be bad no matter what because the budget is low in the first place. The budget of Alone in the dark is 20 million, and a twenty million for the CGI alone wouldnt result in a top notch quality, but the problem is that the 20 million was all he got, and he got actors paychecks, locations, a crew........ to pay, so please dont expect the CGI to be "Gollum" likewise.
I know i`m going to get a lot of angry and hateful posts, but i had to get this off my chest especially since alot of people`s goal in life is to bash Uwe Boll.
To me, he will be a humble, down to earth and improving director who works hard on getting the money to make his movies and doing the best that he could on them which results in fun, escapist movies that i watch whenever i`m bored.

[Cronos]

i havent seen any of his pre-HOTD films (some of which ive heard are excellent) but IMO his films are improving, i absolutely hated HOTD, Alone In The Dark was still a bad film but slightly better and i loved BloodRayne which despite some poor acting and laughable dialogue was a hell of a lot of fun

[Scorpio24]

hahaha.

Well this is going to kick up a shit storm.

But i'm with ya kid. UWE BOLL ROCKS!!!!!!

[stickmangrit]

fuck. Uwe. Bowl.










end of discussion.

[Brando @$$ Fat]

Originally posted by jason statham

To me, he will be a humble, down to earth and improving director who works hard on getting the money to make his movies and doing the best that he could on them which results in fun, escapist movies that i watch whenever i`m bored.

Humble? This is a guy who challenged all the people who criticized his movies to a boxing match, you must have an extremely warped view on the meaning of the word humble.

[jason statham]

Originally posted by Brando @$$ Fat
Humble? This is a guy who challenged all the people who criticized his movies to a boxing match, you must have an extremely warped view on the meaning of the word humble.

Its not like he dragged them from the leg, he gave them the option and they could`ve easily refused the "invitation".

[Scorpio24]

Originally posted by Brando @$$ Fat
Humble? This is a guy who challenged all the people who criticized his movies to a boxing match, you must have an extremely warped view on the meaning of the word humble.


In all fairness I think it was clearly meant as a joke. Watching the fight itself makes me think it even more. I think Boll his just living up or more to the point stirring up the hate felt towards him.

Just a guy that for all the hatred he garners enjoys taking the piss back I think.

[Duke Nukem]

I agree. I admit, "House of The Dead" was a piece of crap, but I never felt "Alone in The Dark" nor "BloodRayne" were as bad. They were better made movies with decent entertainment value. I feel that a lot of people will never own up to them though, because they can't get "House/Dead" off their minds.

[jason statham]

Originally posted by Scorpio24
In all fairness I think it was clearly meant as a joke. Watching the fight itself makes me think it even more. I think Boll his just living up or more to the point stirring up the hate felt towards him.


Thats exactly what i thought, i mean if Uwe was serious, he could`ve easily smashed that guy`s head wide open, but instead he took it real easy on his "opponent".

[ilovemovies]

I've only seen one of Boll's films, Alone in the Dark. And it's pretty awful.

But even if his movies weren't bad, he still gets no sympathy for me because of the whole boxing fiasco. What a big baby. I swear the most immature and childish adult on earth. He doesn't get ridiculed enough as far as I'm concerned.

[Brando @$$ Fat]

Originally posted by ilovemovies
I've only seen one of Boll's films, Alone in the Dark. And it's pretty awful.

But even if his movies weren't bad, he still gets no sympathy for me because of the whole boxing fiasco. What a big baby. I swear the most immature and childish adult on earth. He doesn't get ridiculed enough as far as I'm concerned.

Couldn't have said it better myself. And I seriously doubt he was joking, if you read the interviews it's obvious he is a cranky little baby who can't stand the fact that people don't like his awful movies. It's not just a matter of him being a "popcorn" director either, his films just suck. Tara Reid herself admitted that Alone in the Dark was a mistake and from now on she's reading the scripts herself.

[ilovemovies]

Tara Reid?

What about Ben fucking Kingsley or Jason fucking Stathom? For the life of me, I find it completely unfathomable how he continues to get good high profile actors to work for him?!!! :confused:

[Brando @$$ Fat]

Originally posted by ilovemovies
Tara Reid?

What about Ben fucking Kingsley or Jason fucking Stathom? For the life of me, I find it completely unfathomable how he continues to get good high profile actors to work for him?!!! :confused:

Kinglsey has reached a point in his career where he knows he can star in the shittiest films and it won't even matter, he's just adding to his repertoire.

[Kevin Lockard]

I've actually never seen a Uwe Boll film but I remember going to watch Freddy vs Jason and seeing the preview for House Of The Dead and thinking "God, that looks horrible."

Also, if you're gonna adapt a video game, at least adapt one that was at least KINDA good, the games he chooses to adapt were never good to begin with if you ask me.

[bucket]

Couldnt even watch past 15 mins of the Bloodrayne I downloaded for free- Fucking shit. It was like watching a tv movie

[ilovemovies]

Originally posted by bucket
Couldnt even watch past 15 mins of the Bloodrayne I downloaded for free- Fucking shit. It was like watching a tv movie

I've actually seen some good made for tv movies.

[Brando @$$ Fat]

Yeah, but Bloodrayne is a major motion picture, so there is no reason it should be on the same level as, say, "The Ron Clark Story."

[JackBurton90]

Anyone know the theatre/DVD release date of the new Dungeon Seige movie?

Should be a straight to DVD, but it has an interesting cast with Ray Liotta, Jason Stratham(Sp?), Lelee Sobieski(Sp?) and Burt Reynolds. Could be an interesting rent.

[jason statham]

Originally posted by JackBurton90
Anyone know the theatre/DVD release date of the new Dungeon Seige movie?

Should be a straight to DVD, but it has an interesting cast with Ray Liotta, Jason Stratham(Sp?), Lelee Sobieski(Sp?) and Burt Reynolds. Could be an interesting rent.

On imdb, the release date is listed as 2007 without any details on the exact month and i dont think that its going to go straight to dvd.
I personally think its going to be a good movie while other people are already comparing it to LOTR and saying that the special effects and CGI suck compared to, again, LOTR even though the LOTR movies has a budget of 90+ million whereas the ITNOTK`s budget is barely 60 million.

[X-Nightcrawler]

A "humble" director? Are people actually defending the fact that he has the most overbloated ego for such an untalented person in history?

We're talaking about the guy who referred to Alone In The Dark as a "Supermantural character study." and BloodRayne as "a subgenre re-inventing masterpiece" (quotes paraphrased). The same dude who can't help compare his movies to others in the same vein and say that the others are laughably bad ("This isn't like Underworld where the vampires don't have personalities and suck, these are real characters you'll feel sympathy for!"). The same guy who never ever takes criticism well and has openly said many times that the people who don't like their movies "don't understand what's real storytelling" (direct quote). The same dude who changed his mind entirely about HotD after calling it a "character driven action fest" to "just an extremely entertaining mindless movie".

He's not humble. He's everything but. A self involved jackass who would improve much faster if he was aware of how bad his movies were. I don't give a damn if he's getting better, it doesn't change the fact that he sucked much worse back then and doesn't recognize it.

Originally posted by jason statham
Thats exactly what i thought, i mean if Uwe was serious, he could`ve easily smashed that guy`s head wide open, but instead he took it real easy on his "opponent".
Hahaha, what!? Uwe Boll was a fucking disgrace in that boxing match (though the opponent was just as terrible). He said he wanted it to look realistic. If he didn't bust heads is because he's all bark and no bite and isn't as good a boxer as everyone (me included) expected.

[jaw2929]

I really liked House of the Dead, I don't know why everyone dumps on it all the damn time, when there are FAR worse movies out there... (Dude Where's My Car, Little Nikki, Jackass and The Girl Next Door come to mind)....

Boll sounds like a fucking douchebag, and the other flicks he's made don't even look remotely interesting to me... But I'll always stand by House of the Dead! :p

[Brando @$$ Fat]

Originally posted by Trail_Blazer
I really liked House of the Dead, I don't know why everyone dumps on it all the damn time, when there are FAR worse movies out there... (Dude Where's My Car, Little Nikki, Jackass and The Girl Next Door come to mind)....

Boll sounds like a fucking douchebag, and the other flicks he's made don't even look remotely interesting to me... But I'll always stand by House of the Dead! :p

At least you admit he's a douchebag, that's a start.

[Brando @$$ Fat]

Originally posted by God of Cinema
I've actually never seen a Uwe Boll film but I remember going to watch Freddy vs Jason and seeing the preview for House Of The Dead and thinking "God, that looks horrible."

Also, if you're gonna adapt a video game, at least adapt one that was at least KINDA good, the games he chooses to adapt were never good to begin with if you ask me.

Fucking A, if he could do a decent adaptation of Half-Life my opinion of him would be totally reversed.

[Shockwave]

Hes a hack.


If his talent matched his ego he would be the greatest director of all time. As is, hes one of the worst writers/directors in the history of movies.

[jolanar]

The only Uwe Boll movie I have ever seen was Bloodryane, which I actually couldn't even finish. It wasn't my cup of tea. Maybe I would have appreciated it more if I had played the videogame. I am, however, very much looking forward to the Dungeon Siege movie because I have played that game.

I will agree that he does take a lot of unfair crap from people, who most likely havn't even seen the movie they are bashing in the first place.

The "low budget" argument that he likes to make can only go so far though. There have been a lot of very good films made with very low budgets.

Basically... I don't hold any grudges against the guy, but he has yet to prove himself to me.

[Sigur509]

When did he start killing jews?

[jeo4]

Wow! It's 2002 all over again! My time machine works!

http://freespace.virgin.net/pa.hayes/tardis.JPG

[APzombie]

Its not so much that I hate him per say, but its a wonder he still has a career. There are filmmakers waiting to show off much better talent that will never get the studio backing he has been given.

[go2]

dungeon siege looks terrible is all i gotta say.

[Beenthere]

Pay attention on the fact that he's a German filmmaker. We did have some post WWII cinematic greats from Germany (Volker Schlondorff, Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders) but they all belonged to art house territory. Speaking of pure commercial cinema Germany has never been a strong player. Except for some very erotic Bavarian style soft core comedies from 1970s and some Western co-productions with Yugoslavia. It's not surprising to me Boll is making such excellent movies.

[adamjohnson]

Originally posted by jason statham
Its not like he dragged them from the leg, he gave them the option and they could`ve easily refused the "invitation".

Actually, he told them all it was a publicity stunt and then proceeded to REALLY beat the hell out of them.

[CletusHorniblow]

Originally posted by Trail_Blazer
I really liked House of the Dead, I don't know why everyone dumps on it all the damn time, when there are FAR worse movies out there... (Dude Where's My Car, Little Nikki, Jackass and The Girl Next Door come to mind)....


:( I liked DWMC, Little Nicky and Jackass...

PS: Uwe is a piece of shit, who never should've been handed a camera in the first place...especially with his attitude.

[LedZeppelin1114]

I've seen House of the Dead (which, due to all the god-awful hip-hop touches in the film, I will re-title "Hizzouse of the Dead") and it is fucking terrible. The only movie that came out the same year as Gigli that was worse than Gigli.

I will agree to stop slamming Uwe Boll as long as he agrees to drive a hammer into his temple.

[AaronisMe]

Maybe Stallone can criticize him and they can have a boxing match. Which will be the premise of Rocky 7

[Crazy Dud]

Originally posted by AaronisMe
Maybe Stallone can criticize him and they can have a boxing match. Which will be the premise of Rocky 7

I'm there!:D

[sirdizzy]

When you are so bad as a director that you have to challenge your critics to boxing matches as a publicity stunt to take the bad press of how amazingly and utterly bad your movies are, at what point do people stop going to your movies.

Uwe Boll deserves all the bad press he has gotten for Bloodrayne alone, I dare you to sit through that utter shit fest and try and claim that he should not be run out of hollywood

Alone in the Dark wasn't too bad, it wasn't that great either, I didn't become aware of Boll until Bloodrayne after which I looked him up because I couldn't imagine studio's letting someone that bad at directing make movies