Uwe Boll Fights Back! (Interview!)

[ElderPredator]

Hey everybody,

I know this isn't particular to upcoming movie news but it does mention a few things about his upcoming "Far Cry" adaption as well. This is an interview that was recently released from eurogamers.net who spoke with Uwe Boll about his latest flick as well as his last bunch and how he has been endlessly criticized by everyone for how horrible his movies are. He responds in a very pissed off way and defend his movies well with some intriguing points. This is very much worth the read even though it is lengthy. He even talks about how he thinks the "Halo" movie will be a failure and many others. Very interesting!

Anyway, here is the link to the interview.

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=62899

[thedudeman69]

Uwe sucks. Go count the money you made with Bloodryne. OH WAIT! YOU DIDN'T MAKE ANY!!

and fuck that shithead for calling Halo a failure.

[Digifruitella]

LOL, I can't wait to see that movie "Postal" he's talking about.

[Shockwave]

Its gotta be an act.

No one can be that stupid.

[Tyler_Durden_208]

Originally posted by Shockwave
Its gotta be an act.

No one can be that stupid.
As Blade said it best:
"When you understand the nature of the thing, then you know what it's capable of.";)

[James Logan]

Ok, Uwe, since you're so smart, let's do it this way.

Let's go out on the street, you and me. You pick the city and country. We hit the streets of said city in said country, and spend one full day asking people if they think your movies are crap or not. If we can find seven people who think one of your movies, any one of them, is a good movie -- any seven people, retarded and drunk and blind people included, your family members included, and any which one of your movies they feel is a good movie -- just 7 people in one full day, 24 hours -- then I promise to donate myself to you as your sexual slave, for ever and for the coming generations of your bloodline if I happen to outlive you too.

That's how confident I am that everyone hates your shit, cockface.

[Dead Halloween]

"I'm in the movie - Uwe Boll will play a minor part. I get killed by my 'Boll haters'," he explains. So will he be getting real, er, Boll haters to play themselves?

"Absolutely! I don't have a problem with that," Boll says. "I think I'd get thousands of extras doing that, coming to the set to track me down and lynch me!"

Hey, I want to make an audition for that! :cool:

[Cronos]

Originally posted by Digifruitella
LOL, I can't wait to see that movie "Postal" he's talking about.

same here, the games crazy and the film sounds just as odd

[Quigles]

...my god... he's so stupid. It's unbelievable.

This made me spit up I laughed so hard:

(When question what he would do different with DOOM)
"I don't know if I would definitely make the movie very differently, because I think that Doom remembered me in a lot of the camera angles, what the creatures were doing and so on... I think the guy who made Doom definitely saw Alone in the Dark."

OH......MY....GOD!!! His stupidity knows no bounds. What an arrogant jackass. He actually thinks highly of himself and his movies, even after the entire world hates him. Actually, I think that makes him an arrogant retard, not a jackass.

Regardless, I will be so happy if this is true:

"After Far Cry, maybe I'll go away from videogame-based movies. And everybody can be really happy about it."

Yes we will Boll, yes we will.

[Danger^Cart]

The movie will be so politically incorrect and harsh, it's like a mirror to American society

Right...nevermind the fact that it was YOUR society that nearly succeeded in the genocide of an entire race.

Prick.

[Shockwave]

I wonder what his excuse is tot he fact that even the Resident Evil movies (as shitty as they are) are 1000 times better then anything hes done AND actualy made decent profit?

[AWP82]

Good lord, you guys act like he murdered your fucking mothers or something. I know he makes shit, but damn...the passion! :D

[KcMsterpce]

Oooh, I can't wait to read this. He's so stupid and full of himself that I laugh reading interviews with him!

[Quigles]

Originally posted by AWP82
Good lord, you guys act like he murdered your fucking mothers or something. I know he makes shit, but damn...the passion! :D

My mom walked in on me watching ALONE IN THE DARK... after multiple convulsions on the floor, her heart stopped beating. Her last garbled words to me were, "...why are you watching that shit...?" I had no answer - only tears in my eyes (which didn't come from watching my mother die, mind you).

So yes, Uwe Boll did murder my mother, and I will spend the rest of my life making him pay... PAY I TELL YOU!!!

[Nachokoolaid]

I actually like Uwe Boll. Not his films, but the man himself. He makes me laugh, and I like how he talks.

[JackD.Ripper]

Right...nevermind the fact that it was YOUR society that nearly succeeded in the genocide of an entire race.

How many native americans do you know?

That said. Uwe Boll is a dumb-ass prick and although I don't think he should die, I do think the morons still giving him millions to make movies should.

[TrippingBalls]

Originally posted by JackD.Ripper
How many native americans do you know?

That said. Uwe Boll is a dumb-ass prick and although I don't think he should die, I do think the morons still giving him millions to make movies should.

They don't know any better.

Your average moviegoer doesn't know who Uwe Boll is. I dont' think he's going to be making movies for too long. After Dungeon Siege and Postal flop like Bloodrayne, he's going to be reverting to DTV indie releases.

[Sh8dy Milkman]

Originally posted by Danger^Cart
Right...nevermind the fact that it was YOUR society that nearly succeeded in the genocide of an entire race.

Prick.

LOL...so true

[chinton]

The bes t part is when he said normal people like Bloodrayne. Heae that guys were not normal.

[Danger^Cart]

Originally posted by JackD.Ripper
How many native americans do you know?

That said. Uwe Boll is a dumb-ass prick and although I don't think he should die, I do think the morons still giving him millions to make movies should.

Wait...you do know that Uwe Boll is GERMAN, right? Did you actually read the article? I'm confused...what does any of this have to do with Native Americans?

Oh, and btw, I live in Alaska, which has the highest concentration of Native Americans in the United States. So...a lot.

[jolanar]

I think he brings up some damn good points:

Uwe Boll:

"Let's be realistic, what is House of the Dead? House of the Dead is a brainless shooter, where you shoot zombies into pieces. So what are you expecting from the movie, Schindler's List?

"I think I made a perfect House of the Dead movie, because it really shows how the game is. It's a lot of fun, it's over-the-top action - it's not 28 Days Later, because the reality is that House of the Dead is about how it's a lot of fun to shoot zombies... It's cheesy entertainment with a lot of gore and a lot of violence, and it's super-fast."

"People say BloodRayne has a very bad IMDB rating - yes, but how many votes of zero points were made before the movie was out, by people who hate me but haven't even seen the movie?


"Tons of journalists, including you, have nothing else to do than to follow the Internet voices of one or two thousand people. Only half of those people have seen my movies, and only two per cent of those people have seen my movies before House of the Dead."

"The dangerous thing right now is that a lot of people bash me without thinking about the movies. It's fashionable to hit on Uwe Boll,

"When I try to get videogames turned into movies, and get videogames accepted as [the equivalent of] best-selling books for the younger generation, I get only sh** from the videogames press - what an asshole I am, what a criminal I am for doing these movies, whatever, instead of being happy that there's a movie getting made of a game. This is what's confusing me."

Apparently Boll is "number one in the market" as far as paying investors back goes, and that's "Not because I make the best movies on earth, but I make movies for a minimal amount of budget compared to what major companies are spending, and the movies look good, and they go out theatrically, and they make a lot of money on DVD or Pay TV.

[KcMsterpce]

This was a great interview. Once again, he blames everyone else for his movies failing, and hates the arrogance of reporters who bash his flicks.
He is a major success, I mean look at the foreign countries that has his movies in the top ten for a few weeks. Look at all the DVD sales for HOUSE OF THE DEAD.

He loves his movies. He thinks they are nearly perfect. This is great. There's at least one person who likes his movies.

[The Young Son]

I agree that his stance on his own movies being good is too naive.

I can't believe those two French fuckers actually approached him first with their MGS script. They obviously don't get out much.

I actually give Boll credit for having Boll Bashers in Postal with the scene of them killing him. To be able to poke fun at yourself like that is an admirable trait.

I loved it when he said:
"I won't say that I won't acquire another videogame licence in the future. But I'm not so eager to do it any more, to be honest. After Far Cry, maybe I'll go away from videogame-based movies. And everybody can be really happy about it."

Let's hope so Uwe.

In regards to him saying that people judge his movies before they see them, I think a lot of us do. But I must admit when I started watching Alone In The Dark, I promised myself I would keep an open mind. But as the movie wore on it was impossible to say it was good.

This man needs to be removed from making Videogame-based films before the entire world is sucked into the talentless vacuum created by his monstrosities and we all enter oblivion.

P.S - Jolinar is in love with Boll:D

[Servo]

The biggest problem with Uwe Boll is that he's constantly trying to defend himself. He makes a lot of good points, some that I could even agree with (his defense on House of the Dead).

However, the mere fact that he tries to defend himself and his films, completely cancels out any good points he could possibly make. I've never read of any director that has actually tried defending his shitty films from rabbid fanboys. A.I. is a movie that just about everyone hates, and is actually fashionable to hate, but shit I never once heard Steven Spielberg whine in interviews about how the fans just don't understand what he's trying to do artistically. I respect the fact that Uwe lived the lifestyle of a starving artist, props man, but shit...suck it the fuck up. Move on. If people think your films are shitty, maybe you should actually try to make something GOOD.

"Everyone hated House of the Dead because they didn't get it. Oh well, maybe they'll like this other mindless and stupid videogame based horror film."

Someone obviously has never heard of the phrase "when life hands you lemons, make lemonade."

Pussy.

[TrippingBalls]

It's all bullshit. It's not that people bash his movies because it's the trendy thing to do, or to jump on a bandwagon, its that people bash his movies because they really are that bad. Trust me, I've seen them, and they're horrible.

[Tuukka]

The one problem I have with Boll is that he occasionally puts down other filmmakers, who are 50 times more skilled and talented than he is.

Other than that, I find the guy to be endlessly fascinating.

[Patrick Bateman]

This guy is basically admitting that he is indeed suffering from delusions of grandeur.

His erroneous belief that is often held in the face of evidence to the contrary is proof of guilt.

[syxxpac]

Originally posted by Tuukka
Other than that, I find the guy to be endlessly fascinating.

Same here.

Well, on a psychiatric level, mind you...

[Tagia_Romero]

Originally posted by syxxpac
Same here.

Well, on a psychiatric level, mind you...

Freud would have a field day with that jerk off.

[Harry Warden]

Maybe House Of The Dead is a mindless shooter game but how about putting stuff from the games in the film? And I'm not talking about stock footage.

Fuck Uwe!

[bfox1220]

Have any of you seen Heart of America? Acording to Uwe is a really,really good movie.

[ilovemovies]

Uwe Boll is totally becoming a modern day Ed Wood. Tons of passion, zero talent.


For the record, even knowing his reputation, I was actually looking forward to seeing Alone in the Dark. I thought it looked pretty promising from the trailer. Boy, how wrong I was!

[KcMsterpce]

Originally posted by bfox1220
Have any of you seen Heart of America? Acording to Uwe is a really,really good movie.

"ACCORDING TO UWE"

I saw it, and honestly, it had some potential to be a great movie that would touch on issues that most movies don't. However, in the hands of Boll, all the more intruiging points seemed to be missed with his haphazardly directing style, overly pathetic 'mean characters' that are beyond believeability, as well as a series of horribly amateurish Boll-ish cinematography.
I really think that if there were some GOOD writers, and a competent director, the seed of potential could have bloomed HEART OF AMERICA into a really good movie.
But it wasn't. I give it a 4/10

[James Logan]

Originally posted by Danger^Cart
Wait...you do know that Uwe Boll is GERMAN, right? Did you actually read the article? I'm confused...what does any of this have to do with Native Americans?


It has to do that the burgeoning American society also happened to nearly wipe out an entire race (the Native Americans), which is what you meant by condescendingly alluding to Bowe's society (the German society) wiping out an entire race, as if that were something that would oh-neeeever happen in America.

A remark to which I take offense , by the way. The Holocaust was the work of a terrible, terrible, awfully hateful nutjob and a small minority of followers -- and not only could it have happened in any country in the world (and has happened, and still happens), but the fact that it happened, and how it happened, has NOTHING to do with German society. And as someone who has German family members and friends, I do take offense to the fact that anyone might be off his rock enough to even think that German society "nearly succeeded in wiping out an entire race".

Just saying, bc I think it's the kind of thing that just plain needs to be said. Now let's not make this a long political debate and just get back to beating on Uwe with shovels. Shovels that are on fire. With spikes.

[MrPhox]

I say -- if Postal is as crazy and "alternative" as Boll says it is. AND we get to see him killed. I'll stop bitching.

Unless he does direct an MGS movie.

[AWP82]

Originally posted by bfox1220
Have any of you seen Heart of America? Acording to Uwe is a really,really good movie.

Originally posted by KcMsterpce
"ACCORDING TO UWE"

...Me too. :o

I saw it, and honestly, it had some potential to be a great movie that would touch on issues that most movies don't. However, in the hands of Boll, all the more intruiging points seemed to be missed with his haphazardly directing style, overly pathetic 'mean characters' that are beyond believeability, as well as a series of horribly amateurish Boll-ish cinematography.
I really think that if there were some GOOD writers, and a competent director, the seed of potential could have bloomed HEART OF AMERICA into a really good movie.
But it wasn't. I give it a 4/10

Well, I'm gonna have to disagree with you there...at least on the writing and characters. I thought the writing/dialogue was servicable (sufficiently got the point across), if not pretty good and realistic. Not too far off from how kids in my high school acted/talked. Sure, the "mean characters" could've been less over-the-top, but trust me, there ARE lots of kids like that in high schools (aggressive, violent, disgustingly immature, overly testosterone/hormone-driven, selfish...especially bullies), so I thought they were very believable...unfortunately. They were surprisingly 3-dimensional as well. You'd be surprised at how "normal people" can act sometimes, depending on their emotional state or maturity level. Anyway, I'm rambling.

I do agree with you on the amateurish directing/cinematography though. I'd say with BETTER writing and MORE competent directing, the movie could've been better and more successful. But I respect your opinion. :)

I give it a 6.5/10 as any film, but as a UWE BOLL film, I give it an 8/10.

[X-Nightcrawler]

Originally posted by Tagia_Romero
Freud would have a field day with that jerk off. Anyone with a baseball bat would have a field day with that jerk off.

My mom walked in on me watching ALONE IN THE DARK... after multiple convulsions on the floor, her heart stopped beating. Her last garbled words to me were, "...why are you watching that shit...?" I had no answer - only tears in my eyes (which didn't come from watching my mother die, mind you). And thanks for making my day, that was hilarious.

I think he is so damned full of himself, it's hilarious. Sure, he has the filmmaking talent of a wooden duck, but the guy is hilarious. And not only the fact that he's full of himself makes him funny, but the concepts he goes by ("I pick every prize I get produly" when talking about his Razzie nomination, or his "Uwe Boll haters lynching scene in a movie). I often read interviews done to him so I can laugh (it's good for the abs).

[Dead Halloween]

Originally posted by MrPhox
Unless he does direct an MGS movie. [/B]

Hideo Kojima said in an interview that there are no plans to make a MGS movie, and definately not with Boll.