Uwe Boll To Quit Making Movies With 1M Signatures

An anonymous reader writes to mention that Uwe Boll, the infamous German director behind such video game adaptations as House of the Dead, BloodRayne, Dungeon Siege and Postal, has recently admitted that he would retire from making movies if enough people want him to stop. When FearNet mentioned to Boll a petition online signed by 18,000 people requesting that he cease making films, Boll responded that '18,000 is not enough to convince me.' So how much would be enough? 'One million,' Boll said."

Re:What's so bad about Uwe Boll?

[Svenne]

His movies are bad. Really, really bad. Unfortunately, they're not bad in the kind of way that they become unintentionally funny, they're just mindnumbingly bad.

Please, take my word for it. Don't watch any of them just to find out. I'd hate to have another human being waste 2 hours on that dreck if I can help it.

It's Like Wrestling

[dcollins]

Yeah, yeah, I've seen this a bunch of times when pro wrestling is promoted. The heel "retires" and then comes back as a celebrity referee or manager, so he's still in your face all the time. C'mon, people!

There's nothing that bad about Uwe Boll

[goldcd]

He makes averagely bad straight-to-video style films - yet rises above the mass of other jobbing directors with his ability to drum up publicity. FFS - how may other 'directors of his calibre' can you name? Reason he's working (putting aside tax breaks), is that he takes a relatively small amount of money from producers, rights for a computer game and makes them all money on the film he produces.

Re:Signed, signed, SIGNED!

[eldavojohn]

Where do I sign? Do you need blood? Money? A donation? How many times can I sign? Fucking I'LL SIGN!

I reacted slightly differently. At first, yes I was eager to sign this ... but then I paused ... what about the Mystery Science Theater 3000s and Cinematic Titanics of the future? Where will they buy the rights to destroy movies for a couple thousand dollars?

Re:What's so bad about Uwe Boll?

[norton_I]

His movies are really, really bad. But I would never sign the petition. Better to try making moving and totally suck that be a bunch of whiny jerks on the internet who can "hate" someone for simply making movies which they can choose not to watch.

As for "loophole tax shelter"--it was never a loophole, it was an incentive to get people to make movies in germany, which he did. If I were a tax paying german, I could see being upset by this, but since I am not, I don't really see any reason to do this.

Yes, I am being whiny jerk on the internet. That doesn't affect whether what I say is true or not.

Re:What's so bad about Uwe Boll?

[kabocox]

His initial career was only made possible due to a loophole in German tax law which allowed him to spend other people's money on his bad movies since they could write off the loss for tax purposes. Once that loophole was closed, he decided to stop making expensive ($1M+) movies
He's quite arrogant and usually pretty angry (which you might be too if people kept shitting on your movies
He lured critics out to a charity fight and then beat the snot out of them, sending one to the hospital

This guy is my new hero. WTH does it matter that you or I don't like his movies or that they were funded by a tax loop hole? Nada. There are similar tax loops here in the US. One of my college professors made movies using the US version of this. He was pretty up front about all of it. Yep the people who fund him don't care about money or where their money is being spent because they just need to lose some for tax purposes.

I'm impressed that this guy had the guts to beat the snot out of his critics. Most of us would B.S. about it or try to bluff our way out of something, but we just wouldn't have the balls to do that. I'm sorry, but that's great. It doesn't matter how bad his movies are. He's defending them and some one is obviously paying him to make them. This guy now ranks above Cmdr Taco in my people that deserve respect for doing something that I should have done/would like to do book.

Re:Ah more publicity, the last thing he needs...

[TheAngryIntern]

You are forgetting one thing....he's the one that brought it up first. He said he would stop making movies if enough people wanted it to, it was at *THAT* point they mentioned there was a petition out there already, and then he made the comment about it would take a million signatures, that 18,000 was not enough. BTW, that number has jumped to over 65,000 as of a few minutes ago. It's not that his movies are the worst ever made (although some might be close) it's that he insists on taking video game franchises that are well loved by their fans, and he makes absolute craptastic film adaptations, most of which barely have anything to do with the game it's based on. Granted, most video game -> film adaptations are pretty bad (Tomb Raider, anyone?) but his are exceptionally bad, like he's doing it on purpose. That being said, I have actually heard some good things about his latest, Postal. I've heard it's pretty funny and not nearly as bad as his previous efforts. Even if he does get the million signatures (doubtful) I'm betting he won't quit making movies for the simple fact that he gets huge sums of subsidy money from the German government to make movies. I wouldn't quit if I was him either.

An old saying from my country

[black_lbi]

"If someone says you're drunk, he might be wrong. But when two people say you're drunk, maybe it's time to go to bed."

Re:Signed, signed, SIGNED!

[Peeet]

what about the Mystery Science Theater 3000s and Cinematic Titanics of the future? Where will they buy the rights to destroy movies for a couple thousand dollars?

Honestly, I am more worried about ruining the video game-to-movie adaptation genre than I am a shortage of parody ripe movies. There is definitely no shortage of bad movies while there is a shortage of good video game adaptations.

At the current rate of signature growth (~ 1 per second, it should reach a million within 2 weeks. If we ALL go and sign it now, then I think the slashdotting of the online petition website might send an even stronger message to Mr. Boll.

STOP

[loafula]

what the hell is the point of this, aside to prove what a dick you are? if you don't like his movies, don't watch them. you don't have to go signing petitions against the man. and fyi, i have never seen a single one of his movies.

Re:What's so bad about Uwe Boll?

[Hubbell]

He refused to appear on Attack of the Show after saying he'd fight one of the hosts. The hosts called Seanbaby up and had him come and guest host the show, and Seanbaby used to train heavily in muay thai and the like, and as soon as Uwe Boll found out he refused to appear. The guy is a pussy.