Uwe Boll Challenges Critics to All-Out Brawl

calidan · Jun 23, 2006, 10:13 PM

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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."

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I think the critics will still win.

SFOSOK · Jun 23, 2006, 10:28 PM

Like all of them at once?

Sounds like a German thing to do lol, or at least something I may do.

Maybe he should stop making bad movies.

calidan · Jun 23, 2006, 10:32 PM

GDF: Have you seen any of his movies? I've never seen any of them. Are they really that bad?

SFOSOK · Jun 23, 2006, 10:44 PM

I really don't know, but judging by his reaction (which I probably shouldn't do) they can't be good.

His name sounds familiar though, maybe I'll pick on of them up.

Edit: I thought his name was familiar. Alone in the Dark and House of the Dead were some of the worst movies I've ever seen. Eck I still have a bad taste in my mouth from watching them.

Tipstaff · Jun 23, 2006, 11:35 PM

Let us not forget how bad Blood Rayne was, and so far early reports are that the Dungeon Siege movie is going to be a flop too. So, to be technical, he's 0 and 3, with a possible 4th flop.

BTW, I don't know about Roger Avery, but Quentin would kick that Boll ass all over the place.

Dark Lord · Jun 23, 2006, 11:46 PM

ive seen alone in the dark and house of the dead.

alone in the dark was bad, but watchable.

house of the dead.... he went to great lengths to make a zombie movie suck terribly.

i havnt seen blood ryne yet, waiting for it to be a freebie at the rental store.

SFOSOK · Jun 24, 2006, 01:46 AM

There is only one video game movie that I believe to be at least halfway decent. That movie would have to be Silent Hill.

As far as best horror movie ever?
Dawn of the Dead - gotta love the white preppy chick gettin cut in half with a chainsaw for no apparent reason and Burt Renolds getting sniped.

Dark Lord · Jun 24, 2006, 01:48 AM

ya, silent hill was pretty good. the other one 2 i liked, that im sure ill hear no end of, were Mortal Kombat and Super Mario Bros.

they didnt follow the games much, but they were an entertaining watch at hte very leat.

Mr cairo · Jun 24, 2006, 02:12 AM

hehe ..... worst director ever ..

Tipstaff · Jun 24, 2006, 03:52 AM

That is priceless, cairo. Gotta love CTRL-ALT-DEL.

Dyre Straits · Jun 24, 2006, 04:12 AM

I caught, Mortal Kombat:Annihilation (I think it was) on cable a couple weeks ago.

I thought it was quite watchable and was impressed with some of the special FX.

BloodRayne just about had me ready to walk out on it.

Partizan · Jun 24, 2006, 04:46 AM

I watched Bloodrayne for the first 34 minutes or so. It was more than enough for me

Tipstaff · Jun 24, 2006, 05:07 AM

The 2 best lines I have ever heard about Uwe Boll:

"There is nothing certain in life except death, taxes... and any game adapted to film, or any film for that matter by Uwe Boll, will suck!"

and

"BloodRayne is an absurd sword-and-sorcery vid-game adaptation from schlock-maestro Uwe Boll, featuring a distinguished (and slumming) cast."

To date BloodRayne has pulled in a grand total of only $5.5 million. It cost $47 million to make and market. Ontop of that not one of the cast acknowledge that they ever worked on it.

ZzzombieBunny · Jun 24, 2006, 06:31 AM

Uwe is right about one thing though, I never finished watching Alone In The Dark... it was more like Sleep In The Dark for me, litteraly! How did this man ever get to be able to direct all these movies... the only good thing about Bloodrayne was the intro and credits, it was really well done... after that it was kinda mediocre down to awful at some spots.

Dyre Straits · Jun 24, 2006, 08:51 PM

I never could figure out why Ben Kingsley, with all of his classic style and star quality, would ever agree to work on something as awful as BloorRayne.

I'm sure his stock plummeted as a result.

And then, there were a few others, too. How did Uwe ever pull of such an enticing cast as this?

~~Sanafabich~~ · Jun 25, 2006, 10:26 AM

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Originally Posted by calidan

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I'm more interested in the link to that petition

OmegaRED · Jun 25, 2006, 10:39 AM

They should be ashamed. Its obvious these actors take a huge chunk of cash cause in every flick he does the cast is outstanding or has a big name dramatic actor in there. Was MK: Annihilation by Boll? God I should have known that movie stunk so bad and that would be the only movie of his I've actually seen.

SFOSOK · Jun 25, 2006, 03:03 PM

First was the best Vid Game Movie of all time.

You know what is really goin to be great though?
Halo

Randomletters · Jun 25, 2006, 04:34 PM

DOOM would make a bad movie, oh wait...

Tipstaff · Jun 25, 2006, 05:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Randomletters

DOOM would make a bad movie, oh wait...

Just wait. Rumor has it.. or should I say IMB is listing that Uwe Boll is doing Far Cry. After Uwe Boll gets done with Far Cry... well.. the Doom movie will look good.

SFOSOK · Jun 25, 2006, 05:40 PM

The horrible storyline + worst director ever = The worst movie on the planet...

OmegaRED · Jun 25, 2006, 07:11 PM

Halo will probably change the way the game movies are filmed cause it will destroy box office records. Only because MS is gonna pick the best director money can buy.

SFOSOK · Jun 25, 2006, 07:14 PM

You know who is directing it right? : )

calidan · Jun 25, 2006, 07:22 PM

A director hasn't been chosen. Peter Jackson is the executive producer.

OmegaRED · Jun 25, 2006, 07:32 PM

Having a superstar director as producer is no guarantee of success but I like that MS has approval of all aspects of production and they surely won't let it get screwed up. The fact that 2 studios are paying for the cost also tells you it will be a big budget. Only downside is you have to submit your Halo movie ticket for geniune authentication at the door and some theatres get the Halo movie patch with extra scenes.

calidan · Jun 25, 2006, 07:57 PM

True. Peter Jackson has had his share of bad movies but he improved. Uwe Boll on the other hand is a joke and I'll never understand why any studio would give him the light of day in making movies after all his bad ones.