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General Category => Entertainment and Media => Topic started by: Mongoloid on April 07, 2008, 07:22:14 am
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Uwe Boll will quit making movies if this petition reaches one million signatures.
http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/04/06/uwe-boll-will-quit-making-movies-with-one-million-signatures/
I don't know how to make a dropdown window so if anyone wants to edit this go for it:
"Ladies and Gentleman, we finally have a chance to rid the cinematic world of a cancer. Uwe Boll, the German director behind such horrid 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. “Now we have a new goal.”
Indeed, now we have a goal. All we need is 980,000 more signatures on this petition and we can rid the world of future Boll-directed/produced cinematic atrocities. as my friend Scott Weinberg on Cinematical points out, Tunnel Rats, Far Cry, Zombie Massacre and BloodRayne 3 are already in production. So we might not be able to stop those productions. Be we just might have the ability to prevent a BloodRayne 4 or House of the Dead 3. So sign now!"
There is a link to the actual petition in the article above.
Hurry and sign it! I feel that 2008 is a great year for change, we can stop the Iraqi war AND Uwe Boll! WE CAN!
I put this in general because I feel that if more people saw this, Uwe Boll's career may actually end.
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Unfortunately, I do not trust him to voluntarily back out, but I am signing this anyways. Perhaps, in some just world, he will stop.
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absolutely not!!!!
uwe boll is a wonderful and hilarious man
seriously though, he's the most harmless human being on the planet(except in boxing ring). the film industry isn't any better without uwe boll in it, unlike MANY OTHER PEOPLE who get acclaim and have unreasonable amounts of influence for no fucking reason. i kinda feel bad for the troglodytes who get SO UPSET AT BOLLFILMS, probably as they are on their way to see the NEWEST insert godawful director here EPIC PIECE OF SHIT or whatever. the reality is that we're FUCKING LUCKY to have a 21st century Ed Wood. i don't see how the world is at all fortunate to have JOHN WOO roaming the earth with his pocketful of stupid fucking doves.
anyway, show me a STOP GEORGE LUCAS PETITION and i would have signed it already, because you aren't going to get my name on this trash
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Hundley has been drinking again.
EDIT: Actually I better put something else here before I get warned. I really just signed this in hopes that I never have to hear about Uwe Boll ever again. It's not even the man so much (his shit can be avoided) BUT YOU PEOPLE WONT STOP TALKING ABOUT HIM.
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why should i take any effort to disrupt somebody's livelihood? not very zen imo
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the film industry isn't any better without uwe boll in it, unlike MANY OTHER PEOPLE who get acclaim and have unreasonable amounts of influence for no fucking reason.
are you sirius
i cannot begin to understand where you get the information to draw an opinion like this. i will not ague with you, because i am 99% sure you are either joking or disagreeing to disagree.
edit: pandabear has obviously never seen a boll flick
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just like its not very zen to ruin an entire genre of film just to make money. I signed, i can't stand his terrible films.
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what the hell are you guys even talking about?
it's not as if his films are an affront to art. it's just entertainment: you either see his movies or you don't.
i like uwe boll because he's a caricature of a film industry icon, and his life points out how ridiculous/retarded the film industry is.
i can't even wrap my mind around why anyone would think that a genre would be ruined by the work of one man. it's the same sort of retardation which causes people to say that gay marriage violates the sanctity of traditional marriage.
but that's okay. if you're droll enough to think that hollywood movies are worthwhile enough to warrant such outrage then i guess it makes sense that you could hold those crazy ideas.
shine on you crazy diamond
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are you sirius
i cannot begin to understand where you get the information to draw an opinion like this. i will not ague with you, because i am 99% sure you are either joking or disagreeing to disagree.
i am actually 100% serious
uwe boll is basically an insignificant BOTTOM FEEDER. that's all he ever was and ever will be. he puts together these sloppy and ridiculous movies(in his defense on very little budget) that nobody gives a shit about except HARD CORE FANS OF BLOODRAYNE and HARDCORE FANS OF MOVIES SO BAD THEY'RE GOOD. the words entirely insignificant should come to mind when thinking about uwe boll, but it somehow doesn't with people. this man has no influence. he has no pull within the medium. all he does is pull together these dreadful movies that get universally ridiculed and ignored.
i find it difficult to avoid comparing uwe boll, somehow public enemy number 1, to all the contemporary iconic film directors that actively fuck up contemporary film through their influence. i'll use quentin tarantino as an example, i guess. the man has only marginal talent at the absolute best, but is CLUNG TO for purely superficial reasons. this wouldn't be that big of a problem but the man ultimately got championed, greatly in part to how he THREW HIMSELF at the world as HEY THIS IS WHAT AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FILM IS. which also wouldn't have been that big of a problem, but the progression of american independent film was irrevocably retarded after all of his stupid goddamn movies lowered the goddamn bar from lots of nobodies making interesting movies to BIG EDGY HOLLYWOOD HARDON where nothing ever got done. it's incredibly fucking sad that we have to rely on GEORGE CLOONEY of all people to be one of the few people to actively go out and try to make american independent film better.
i could go even further and point to totally untalented assholes like george lucas and peter jackson doing everything within their power to make uninventive CGI as a coverup for totally unsubstantial material the standard for filmmaking. fuck, i could make a really long list of these respected directors that are directly responsible for 99% of the movies nowadays being totally shit.
the dangerously counter-productive filmmakers aren't the ones that are laughably bad, but the ones that do identifiable damage to the industry through their stunning lack of talent and accidental influence. the ones that set awful trends that studios and lesser retards blindly follow. film has gotten to the point where MAKING A MOVIE is just alternating between AMAZING CGI and the universal technique of sticking a camera down the throat of MOVIE STAR and just letting them drone through their lines for two fucking hours.
yeah, sorry if i'm not particularly sympathetic to your campaign against uwe boll. getting him to quit directing will do ABSOLUTELY NO GOOD, and if you honestly feel otherwise, then it's clear that you are remarkably uneducated on the subject of film.
ps: i feel sorry for people who cannot sit around and watch an uwe boll film with friends and have their own version of mst3000. like i said, we're lucky to have our own ed wood
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I apparently signed this quite awhile ago. My signature was listed as the 4900th. Just how old is this petition anyway?
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I love Uwe Boll and I hope this petition will result in another public stunt.
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Hundley is right, who cares!? I havent even seen any of his movies and it's not as if I'm constantly being forced to watch them.
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I signed...
Not because I care if he stops making movies or not, but because I'm curious to see what would happen if they actually DID get a million signatures.
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has anybody actually seen an uwe boll film or is everyone just like EWW NEW UWE BOLL MOVIE IT BURNS RUINING FILM INDUSTRY because it's something you can post in a blog or a forum etc
it's not like he even does adaptations of /good/ games - it's stuff like HOUSE OF THE DEAD which was basically a bunch of drunk japanese guys thinking of every horror movie cliche they could come up with
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has anybody actually seen an uwe boll film or is everyone just like EWW NEW UWE BOLL MOVIE IT BURNS RUINING FILM INDUSTRY because it's something you can post in a blog or a forum etc
I don't think anyone really feels like he's "ruining the film industry." Casual viewers don't usually think on that grand of a scale. I guess people do accuse him of exploiting the game industry, and giving game movies a bad name, but I think that's about as deep as it goes.
it's not like he even does adaptations of /good/ games - it's stuff like HOUSE OF THE DEAD which was basically a bunch of drunk japanese guys thinking of every horror movie cliche they could come up with
Yeah, this is a pretty good point. It's not like he's ruining Halo or something. To be honest, I don't think I've even played any of the games that he's adapted.
Anyway, moving this to film media.
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But.. but.. Far Cry.. :cry:
The only real reason this guy gets so much shit is because people take games to seriously and when they hear a movie being made of the favorite games they want it to be good, have the BEST director, cast, shit like that, but when studios aren't really interested in making them guys like Uwe Boll come along, same shit happened to Alien VS Predator, until Paul WS Anderson took it upon himself to make the movie, it was just sitting their, no one was interested.
He's still a bad director though, and I just don't know how he gets actors like Jason Statham, John Rhys Davies, Christian Slater to star in his movies?
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Far Cry has like the worst story ever it just has nice graphics which any movie can do really
Although I will admit it has some kind of ATMOSPHERE or something which could be ruined pretty easily
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this is horrible and if you sign this then fuck you
not only is uwe boll harmless, but while he gets a ton of shit for it he is doing something he enjoys. He may make terrible movies but he has a passion for film that is apparent when people just talk to him.
i think the real bad people are the people who sign these things (which is obviously serious since boll doesn't joke around (boxing matches any one?)) are the real monsters, all jumping on someone like a pack of tigers just because he's living his dream
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this is horrible and if you sign this then fuck you
not only is uwe boll harmless, but while he gets a ton of shit for it he is doing something he enjoys. He may make terrible movies but he has a passion for film that is apparent when people just talk to him.
i think the real bad people are the people who sign these things (which is obviously serious since boll doesn't joke around (boxing matches any one?)) are the real monsters, all jumping on someone like a pack of tigers just because he's living his dream
Isn't Boll the one that proposed this though?
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Ragnar, it was a joke at how people take game to movies transitions to seriously, great game though haha. I don't particularly like game movies because most games should stay games, although something like Fahrenheit would make an excellent movie!
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Isn't Boll the one that proposed this though?
Only because a bunch of people keep telling him to quit in the first place.
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Uwe Boll is so insignificant to me that I won't put the time into signing it. I don't give a shit if he makes movies or not. After watching House of the Dead I told myself I would never watch another one of his movies.
I want to make good movies. Of course, I want to make entertaining movies for the younger audience, and this is a lot of times not working with film critics who are more into drama or art-house movies. But on the other hand, I always try to make solid movies.
That is a quote from him. I feel depressed now. I had no idea that he tries to make 'solid' movies.
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I don't think people care so much about Uwe Boll ruining the movie industry so much as how his movies ruin their precious video games. If that's the case then I definitely refuse to sign this because I hate video games and people who play them 100% more than anything else and I love how gamers now have to force themselves to think that his movies are not officially canon to whatever shitty franchise of games they're based on. I can only hope Uwe Boll decides to make movie adaptations on some of the more popular games like Metroid and Zelda and Halo and whatever else and then all the Nintendo fans can all die of a massive aneurysm.
I think if he made some Nintendo franchise movies there would be deaths but they wouldn't be the ninty fans'
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From Wikipedia:
"Boll is able to acquire funding thanks to German tax laws that reward investments in film. The law allows investors in German-owned films to write off 100% of their investment as a tax deduction; it also allows them to invest borrowed money and write off any fees associated with the loan. The investor is then only required to pay taxes on the profits made by the movie; if the movie loses money, the investor gets a tax writeoff."
The law has since been revoked, but I still can't help but think that, yes, Uwe Boll is still deliberately making the worst films possible. I mean, how many people would rent something that's just meh-bad like the Star Wars prequels, as opposed to something oh-my-god-this-is-incredibly-mindblowingly-awful-bad like House of the Dead? The only difference is that instead of exploiting the German Government, he's exploiting the whole "so bad it's good" thing... And maybe it's just me, but while the idea of an enthusiastic amateur making an unintentionally terrible movie is almost heartwarming, the idea of someone setting out to make a deliberate, clinical stinker is downright reprehensible.
Also, radio_raheem, I don't mean to be condescending or anything, but you know that is is actually a gaming forum, right? Why join if you hate games? Just curious...
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Hundley is right, who cares!? I havent even seen any of his movies and it's not as if I'm constantly being forced to watch them.
I've not seen even one of his films. From my perspective, ignoring him is not a hard thing to do.
But where is that George Lucas petition? Now there is something I can get my heart into! (Although it would probably result in a counter-petition for George Lucas to not only continue, but make a third star-wars trilogy just for the hell of it. And we all know it would get at least twice as many signatures despite our good intentions to stop him at all costs.)
Although I would sign the Uwe Boll one just for the hell of it, but I couldn't find a link to it (and I frankly don't care enough to put effort out and go searching for it).
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God... For once, I totally agree with Hundley. This petition is the most retarded thing I've seen on the face of this earth.
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its nice to see both sides wishing the other side were all dead again
im going to take the neutral ground and not sign it but also not wish that every fan of videogames that hate his films die of aneurysms
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I think it was good that a woman wrote BloodRayne because it has that erotic lesbian but violent… It's a little like a bisexual touch that a vampire has basically.
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its nice to see both sides wishing the other side were all dead again
im going to take the neutral ground and not sign it but also not wish that every fan of videogames that hate his films die of aneurysms
~south park, douche and turd
also I saw the dungeon siege movie and at this part:
at 1:30 my friends and I started laughing so hard that people started to shush us. the fact that someone went to a Uwe Boll movie and was angry that people were talking and having a fun time is pretty amazing. Uwe rules.
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it's funny that videogame fans would really be angry at him not for negatively affecting the film industry, but for giving videogame movies a bad name, and making their FAVE GAMES look terrible. i've always thought that he gave videogame movies exactly the type of name they should get, and didn't really do it much worse than anyone else who remained faithful to the games would. the large majority of the games he makes movies out of are equally as bad as his movies, and i think it pretty telling of the disparity between the standards of the two industries that while this is considered acceptable and even EXCELLENT within the confines of the gaming industry, once it crosses over into the film industry, it immediately becomes so far beyond terrible that no one even takes it seriously, and in fact no one's even sure if it's a joke or not.
bloodrayne and postal fans should probably accept that if a director is gearing up to make a movie out of a game as bad as fucking BLOODRAYNE AND POSTAL, he doesn't really have any responsibility to make some sort of cinematic masterpiece out of them. realistically, there's only so much you can do with material that bad, and his movies are usually fairly realistic interpretations. i actually sort of think it's valuable in that, aside from just being funny to watch, his movies are little beacons of truth to people who don't play games, saying that contrary to what stupid videogame fans tell you, yes, many many games are actually this dumb.
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i don't see how the world is at all fortunate to have JOHN WOO roaming the earth with his pocketful of stupid fucking doves.
Dude... have you seen John Woo's Stranglehold?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsY-0rJJ034
(look at 1:53)
I saw my brother play this and the doves are part of a bullet time like special ability =(((
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I signed it, but only because making movies based off of video games is the dumbest shit ever (comics are next in line) and I do honestly feel the world (by that I mean mass media) would be a better place without him.
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Why can't the democratic process extend to all forms of entertainment as well? If the entire internet can (well, try) to remove a shitty director, shouldn't this extend to every celebrity in general?
Oh wait, because there's always some douche who buys the shit and supports the cause.
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Ima sign this...
I could care less about the movies (just don't watch them you pricks), I'm more interested whether or not he will actually stop making films
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I would like to bring up that the thing I hated about Dungeon Siege was that it had a really decent cast but Uwe Bol must be such a TERRIBLE director that he forces his actors to suck so they don't outdo him or whatever. Jason Statham is one of my favorite action movie stars and he somehow turned a low budget movie about a drug addicted poisoned assassin into some fairly decent and HOLY SHIT did he fail hard in that film. You can see the ANGER in his face and hear the vitriol in his voice. Look at Ron Perlman! I had to watch Hellboy three times and masturbate to City of Lost Children in order to get that ridiculously comical HEEEYAAAAARGH! out of my head.
Bol must have the best field caster or whatever they're called in the market because it baffles me how he can ALWAYS get a pretty decent (if not average) group of stars together and ruin their career on the spot. In the hands of any other director, Dungeon Siege and Alone in the Dark would be upgraded from pure shit to rank garbage which would make it competable with other big budget blockbusters.
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I am in shock that a GAMING community supports Uwe Boll! What a world!
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places like gamefaqs and shit are terrible. Game communities are really bad, because people have a hard time accepting what games currently are and try to have some insane justification. It's one of the reasons why I'm a big Dyasty Warriors fan, because they are just 100% game, and any atempt to justify them intillectually is to ignore their purpose of killing things and hitting combos.
Uwe boll prettymuch somes up that games generally have terrible storylines. He isn't ruining the reputaton of videogames, because the internet communities prettymuch single handedly do that themselves. house of the dead and farcry are hardely known for their stories (Farcry does have like one of the most cliche SCIFICHANNEL MOVIE stories so it suits Mr. Boll perfectly!)
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I am in shock that a GAMING community supports Uwe Boll! What a world!
goddammit is this a fake post because there is a post right above yours that clarified this.
also the best part of dungeon siege is after jason statham finds his dead son and his face is supposed to look grieved but this MASSIVE KNOT suddenly forms between his eyes and it is the single most disgusting and fascinating thing I've ever seen.
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places like gamefaqs and shit are terrible. Game communities are really bad, because people have a hard time accepting what games currently are and try to have some insane justification. It's one of the reasons why I'm a big Dyasty Warriors fan, because they are just 100% game, and any atempt to justify them intillectually is to ignore their purpose of killing things and hitting combos.
Uwe boll prettymuch somes up that games generally have terrible storylines. He isn't ruining the reputaton of videogames, because the internet communities prettymuch single handedly do that themselves. house of the dead and farcry are hardely known for their stories (Farcry does have like one of the most cliche SCIFICHANNEL MOVIE stories so it suits Mr. Boll perfectly!)
Then why make movies out of something that has a shit story? It seems like a valiant effort to defend some how has consistanly made bad choices for material to base his movies off. It seems a cheap way to get peole into the theatre. The fans of the game will probably go and watch and regardless if they liked it or not, they paid for a ticket so the film makes a profit and Boll gets to make another movie. As long as the studio can guarantee people will go to the movies (i.e. shitty videogame movies) then the studio will continue to greenlight these awful projects.
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Yeah, so why target Boll, like the most harmless director around? Why not go for the big guns who are, and who have made Hollywood a cesspit of cgi slow motion and action beats? Going after Boll because he makes bad movies that get a cult following (they ain't really even getting a cult following) is really like trying to fix an earthquake with a dustpan and brush, he's a product of the situation, and because he is essentially a joke he'll never get to be a real cause of the problem, so why sweep the floor when the house is about to fall down on you?
(basically, Hundley said it right)
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I'm sure if Michael Bay said I will quit movies if 1000000 people sign, loads of people would sign it. I don't think he's anymore hated than any other awful director....
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i am actually 100% serious
uwe boll is basically an insignificant BOTTOM FEEDER. that's all he ever was and ever will be. he puts together these sloppy and ridiculous movies(in his defense on very little budget) that nobody gives a shit about except HARD CORE FANS OF BLOODRAYNE and HARDCORE FANS OF MOVIES SO BAD THEY'RE GOOD. the words entirely insignificant should come to mind when thinking about uwe boll, but it somehow doesn't with people. this man has no influence. he has no pull within the medium. all he does is pull together these dreadful movies that get universally ridiculed and ignored.
i find it difficult to avoid comparing uwe boll, somehow public enemy number 1, to all the contemporary iconic film directors that actively fuck up contemporary film through their influence. i'll use quentin tarantino as an example, i guess. the man has only marginal talent at the absolute best, but is CLUNG TO for purely superficial reasons. this wouldn't be that big of a problem but the man ultimately got championed, greatly in part to how he THREW HIMSELF at the world as HEY THIS IS WHAT AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FILM IS. which also wouldn't have been that big of a problem, but the progression of american independent film was irrevocably retarded after all of his stupid goddamn movies lowered the goddamn bar from lots of nobodies making interesting movies to BIG EDGY HOLLYWOOD HARDON where nothing ever got done. it's incredibly fucking sad that we have to rely on GEORGE CLOONEY of all people to be one of the few people to actively go out and try to make american independent film better.
i could go even further and point to totally untalented assholes like george lucas and peter jackson doing everything within their power to make uninventive CGI as a coverup for totally unsubstantial material the standard for filmmaking. fuck, i could make a really long list of these respected directors that are directly responsible for 99% of the movies nowadays being totally shit.
the dangerously counter-productive filmmakers aren't the ones that are laughably bad, but the ones that do identifiable damage to the industry through their stunning lack of talent and accidental influence. the ones that set awful trends that studios and lesser retards blindly follow. film has gotten to the point where MAKING A MOVIE is just alternating between AMAZING CGI and the universal technique of sticking a camera down the throat of MOVIE STAR and just letting them drone through their lines for two fucking hours.
yeah, sorry if i'm not particularly sympathetic to your campaign against uwe boll. getting him to quit directing will do ABSOLUTELY NO GOOD, and if you honestly feel otherwise, then it's clear that you are remarkably uneducated on the subject of film.
ps: i feel sorry for people who cannot sit around and watch an uwe boll film with friends and have their own version of mst3000. like i said, we're lucky to have our own ed wood
dude i wish you would post in this forum more often
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I'm sure if Michael Bay said I will quit movies if 1000000 people sign, loads of people would sign it. I don't think he's anymore hated than any other awful director....
bay's movies genuinely affect the state of hollywood by popularity and box office sales, uwe boll's don't.
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Man, Uwe Boll is the most badass director on the planet. He doesn't give a shit about making a good or bad movie, but he just makes fucking movies. I really view his films as similar to a modern day exploitation film in a way. They're just so bad so fucked up so over the top. I honestly love his style, because it's not serious at all, rather a break from contemporary film making.
Also Boll has the greatest attitude of any person in the media today. I love watching his interviews because he is the most honest motherfucker on the planet.
Uwe feeds on hate motherfuckers.
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whereas the latter are a bunch of stupid man-children that are so incapable of letting go of their childhood toys that they desperately try to convince themselves that it's actually an art form instead
man i have been struggling with the quest to find the best words/phrases to characterize this phenomena and i think you finally found them
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man i have been struggling with the quest to find the best words/phrases to characterize this phenomena and i think you finally found them
if you frequented all the bad gaming webcomics this word would have hit you sooner. i don't know what it is with HARDKORE GAYMERZ but their inner persona are children who fuck up all the time but it's okay because they go on grand adventures and act really cool to impress the other children.
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Uwe Boll's angry video statement!
http://www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=8203&count=0
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HOLY SHIT THAT VIDEO WAS TRHE MOST BADASS THING EVER
Jesus Christ, I can't wait to see Postal with my family.
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It grieves me to inform all internet citizens that this topic is now officially obsolete.
Dr. Uwe Boll has reached out to all his fans and asked them to emerge from the sewers and roll out of the gutters and sign The Pro-Boll Petition (http://www.petitiononline.com/pr0boll7/petition.html), either at the free internet connection of their local library, or through their aluminum foil helmets.
The time for action is NOW, my friends. Do not let the course of film history, or anything for that matter, be swayed by enthusiastic fans of videogames such as House of the Dead and Bloodrayne.
We are in control of our own destiny.
Join the Bollution today!!!
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in all seriousness
who the fuck liked bloodrayne
because it was pretty much the worst game i've ever seen
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WHAT A FUCKING GENIUS! OH ITS BLOWING MY FUCKING MIND!fuck!
But seriously...
this is horrible and if you sign this then fuck you
not only is uwe boll harmless, but while he gets a ton of shit for it he is doing something he enjoys. He may make terrible movies but he has a passion for film that is apparent when people just talk to him.
i think the real bad people are the people who sign these things (which is obviously serious since boll doesn't joke around (boxing matches any one?)) are the real monsters, all jumping on someone like a pack of tigers just because he's living his dream
Pretty much this.
Honestly no one should sign this thing with serious thoughts of stopping this guys career. Its what he likes to do, and no one has the right to tell him that he can't do what he loves.
If you don't like his movies, wouldn't it just be easier to not watch them?
Some of these gamers or whatever act like he insulted their honor or something. (Hell I like House of the Dead (the game), and I thought the movie was bad...and it just stops there, moving on!)
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I was invited by Postal's creator go watch watch the movie on the US release day, which I'm looking forward too.
I would much rather watch one of Boll's movies than other generic hollywood CGIfest movies.
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I was invited by Postal's creator go watch watch the movie on the US release day, which I'm looking forward too.
I would much rather watch one of Boll's movies than other generic hollywood CGIfest movies.
..Will there be...autographs?
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I sorta doubt it since I'm sure Boll would most likely be up in New York or somewhere at release and I'm sorta just going to one of the theaters in Arizona near the Running with Scissors studio.
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I sorta doubt it since I'm sure Boll would most likely be up in New York or somewhere at release and I'm sorta just going to one of the theaters in Arizona near the Running with Scissors studio.
No man, the New York screening was on April 2nd.
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Apparently they're also doing shit in New York on the main release weekend, to make light of the fact that they're competing with Indiana Jones that weekend.
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It grieves me to inform all internet citizens that this topic is now officially obsolete.
Dr. Uwe Boll has reached out to all his fans and asked them to emerge from the sewers and roll out of the gutters and sign The Pro-Boll Petition (http://www.petitiononline.com/pr0boll7/petition.html), either at the free internet connection of their local library, or through their aluminum foil helmets.
The time for action is NOW, my friends. Do not let the course of film history, or anything for that matter, be swayed by enthusiastic fans of videogames such as House of the Dead and Bloodrayne.
We are in control of our own destiny.
Join the Bollution today!!!
i signed. 13 signatures wooooo.
i feel like an undecided voter casting his ballot on a 3rd party candidate. it doesn't mean shit but dammit i'll brag about it to anyone listening.
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Fuck that, Dungeon Seige movie sucked (I'm a pretty huge Dungeon Siege fan). He can't just continuously shit over stuff I like!
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I really need to see the Dungeon Siege movie, I didn't know it's out.
It's kinda amazing how Uwe Boll can even make so bad movies but they are pretty hilarious and entertaining so I hope he will never stop.
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Actually caring about a fucking game franchise's movie is pretty stupid, considering barely any games have story lines that are even that great in the first place.
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I am now completely convinced that Hundley is Uwe Boll.
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I came here to report that the petition now has 200,000 signatures but now I feel kind of awful for signing it because Hundley has a very convincing argument :(
EDIT: I saw this picture somewhere on the internet and it's not very funny but it's at least relevant to the topic:
(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/uwebollindy.jpeg)
Uwe Boll has apparently declared war on Steven Speilberg and is claiming that Postal will sell more tickets than Indiana Jones 4! He moved the release date so that they come out on the same day. Maybe this sort of stunt is exactly why we need Uwe Boll in the film industry.
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Uwe Boll also said that his cameo performance in Postal is much better than Ben Kingsley in Schindler's list
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I came here to report that the petition now has 200,000 signatures but now I feel kind of awful for signing it because Hundley has a very convincing argument :(
Me too, especially since I've watched a few interviews with Boll and he really does seem to enjoy making movies, which kinda fucks up my 'Uwe Boll is a Machievellian mastermind playing us all for schmucks' theory...
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i am starting to think that uwe boll is legitimately a genius.
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uh... I'm guessing you didn't see bloodrayne bro....
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Uwe Boll has apparently declared war on Steven Speilberg and is claiming that Postal will sell more tickets than Indiana Jones 4! He moved the release date so that they come out on the same day. Maybe this sort of stunt is exactly why we need Uwe Boll in the film industry.
Expect to see Verne Troyer running around New York in a Indiana Jones outfit that weekend.
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This summer, I am going to try to sell a script to Uwe Boll.
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Signing now, though I have a feeling he'd not honor his word.
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THIS IS A TRAGIC DAY FOR GAMERS EVERYWHERE:
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=133815
Renegade film director Uwe Boll has told MTV that he approached Blizzard for the film rights to World of Warcraft.
He was not-so-politely refused. According to Boll, "I got in contact with [chief operating officer] Paul Sams of Blizzard, and he said, 'We will not sell the movie rights, not to you... especially not to you.'"
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LMAO! Thank god! I'm glad the games' creators are just as big fans of Boll as their consumers are.
We're slowly getting to a million, but as goat said, I doubt Boll will honor his word.
I really can't understand why everyone (only GW actually) is hung up on Boll. Apparently Uwe Boll makes shitty movies and George Lucas makes shitty movies, but we hate George Lucas because his movies are more popular?
Seems like an exaggerated attempt to go against the grain.
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no.
George lucas has INFLUENCE. Like even though the original trilogy were pretty good films (well TESB mainly), they have only really had a negative impact on the film industry. Lucas is one of the people... the main person responsible for the sorry state of movies nowadays, where it's all special effects and no plot. Doubled with the fact that he's an arrogant egotistical prick make him the kind of person you should go for.
Why go for Uwe Boll? He does have a passion for movies but yes they are really really bad, but there is a sincerity in them, he's trying but just doesn;t understand why his movies are so terrible. But Boll has NO INFLUENCE. Going for Boll would do nothing. Only a total idiot would say he's ruining the reputation of games... because ONLY gamers tend to watch his films, and they watch them because they know they are bad. (but yeah HOW DARE HE RUIN OUR PRECIOUS EPIC GAMES LIKE BLOODRAYNE, FARCRY, POSTAL and HOPUSE OF THE DEAD... SUCH STORY DRIVEN GAMES CANNOT BE RUINED I WILL HUNT HIM DOWN AND KILL HIM)
So yeah why go for the insignificant guy who isn't really doing any wrong? The guy with no influence?
Surely this amount of coordinated effort should be targeted towards the lucas' or the tarantinos, y'know, the guys who are ruining cinema.
Things like this are great examples of how the gaming community AS A WHOLE cannot look past it's own small bubble(gaems) and see a big picture... of any kind.
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It's not that Uwe Boll is good, it's "why the fuck should anyone care that much about him".
Also I'm sure whatever WoW movie Boll would have done would be more enjoyable to watch than whatever WoW movie is eventually made.
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On one side of the arguement you could say that Boll has completely ruined the reputation of ever making a good game to film transition. We all say game to film doesn't work, but maybe if a good director took on a project it would be different.
So he is influencing the film industry in a way. Studios will now just say "a game to film? No way! get that shit out of here!"
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Sorry but Mario brothers, Doom, Resident evil etc etc are far more widely known than Boll movies, and tend to be the ones brought up outside of gamingforums.
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Yeah, Boll hasn't even done any damage to fucking game films compared to what's already come before him, especially considering the other ones are more well known. Most people outside of gaming communities don't even know who Boll is.
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he hasnt helped it though. He is part of the problem why game films are so shit along with the other directors who make game films.
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He went to Blizzard and asked about a WoW movie but Blizzard told him, "GTFO!"
http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2008/04/18/uwe-boll-wont-ever-be-entering-the-world-of-warcraft/
I loled.
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He went to Blizzard and asked about a WoW movie but Blizzard told him, "GTFO!"
http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2008/04/18/uwe-boll-wont-ever-be-entering-the-world-of-warcraft/
I loled.
Thanks for pretty much just reposting what Kaworu said. Not like the movie Blizzard will eventually have made will be any good anyway.
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Thanks for pretty much just reposting what Kaworu said.
Opps, my bad.
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if anybody thinks farcry's plot would make a good film, they should be transporte back in time to an Auschwitz gaschamber (We are combining humans with apes to create super soldiers. OH NO THEY'VE STARTED ATTACKING US)
Videogames generally have terrible plots. That's why certain games are essentially resorting to BEING MOVIES (hello mgs series) ir order to get their point across. Even as a medium it's just really bad to work with because most games tend to hold the players hand and explain everything to them as if they're children. Not all games do, they are some games with great stories. So you can't really expect game movies to ever be good conscidering how most gamelpots are 99% based on exposition.
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So it's the whole "lesser of evils" thing, I guess? I suppose I can't argue that, it's straight opinion. I'll just say you need to take out the trash before you clean the trash can.
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He's not even significant enough to the film industy to be an "evil". He's pretty damn harmless really. He's definitely not harmful enough for a community to get in an uproar over him at least.
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He's not even significant enough to the film industy to be an "evil". He's pretty damn harmless really. He's definitely not harmful enough for a community to get in an uproar over him at least.
hello 200,000 petition signatures
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Hello 200,000 overreacting idiots or people who signed it because they really don't care (I am pretty sure I signed this btw, because I am curious about what Boll would do if this got 1,000,000 people).
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GAMERS ARE RATIONAL PEOPLE
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No way man. Boll's movies are about as good as game to movie adaptations are going to get. The problem isn't with the director but what bazookatooth said earlier about storywriting standards in video games being much, much worse than in movies. What seems like a good story or good writing in video games is completely laughable when you compare it to good writing and stories in movies. There's not a whole lot Boll could do about this besides making his movies only very loosely based on the games they're about in which case THAT is what game nerds would bitch about next.
Ok, yeah I see your point. I guess game to movie is never gonna be a great transition. I'm not gonna sign the petition, becuase its a bit harsh to tell someone to stop doing what they enjoy, but at the same time I kind of wish he would stop thinking he is some sort of film legend. When he said shit like his performance in postal was better than Ben Kingsley in Schindler's list, I thought it was some kind of joke. But the more I see him in the flesh he seems to genuinely think his movies are A+ standard.
I guess I don't really understand the 110% support that everyone here on the forums are giving him...
Maybe I'm missing out on THE BIG JOKE and he actually makes his films purposely awful as a satire on how people will pay to watch crap over and over again
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GAMERS ARE RATIONAL PEOPLE
It's generalizations like this that cause racism.
You should be ashamed.
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Maybe I'm missing out on THE BIG JOKE and he actually makes his films purposely awful as a satire on how people will pay to watch crap over and over again
ding.
have you ever watched a movie by boll with a sense of YES I'M GOING TO HAVE A GOOD TIME. it's truly excellent. like he is better than Tim and Eric at awkward cuts and shit.
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So you're saying he's not a director at all, but in fact an actor, playing a character that believes himself to be a great director.
edit: also, it is painful to believe that everyone on that petition is a gamer. Take a stride through IMDB once or twice and you'll find that supporters run a lot fewer than these "gamers."
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but at the same time I kind of wish he would stop thinking he is some sort of film legend. When he said shit like his performance in postal was better than Ben Kingsley in Schindler's list, I thought it was some kind of joke. But the more I see him in the flesh he seems to genuinely think his movies are A+ standard.
what's worse, when quentin tarantino or george lucas does this and people ACTUALLY BELIEVE THEM or when uwe boll does this and HE IS CLEARLY THE WORST ACTIVE DIRECTOR
uwe boll wouldn't be funny if he was really humble about this. if he came out and said I'M SO SORRY I'M TRYING MY BEST :( you would feel sorry for him because you'd be 99% sure he was mentally handicapped. but no, he comes out and beats the hell out of lowtax and other random INTERNET PEOPLE because alone in the dark got bad reviews on DA INTERNET.
seriously, his attitude makes it so much better because he is CLEARLY INSANE and actively willing to challenge the internet to a fist-fight.
it's really hard to believe that he is serious about this because everything he does is just ABSURD. i honestly sit here and wonder if uwe boll is the new andy kaufman because HE CAN'T BE REAL
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Call me crazy, but I would rather watch/buy/see movies that are good, made by a dickhead director, than movies that are bad, made by a dickhead director.
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Thanks for pretty much just reposting what Kaworu said. Not like the movie Blizzard will eventually have made will be any good anyway.
I guarantee you it will have absolutely no redeeming qualities to it whatsoever. I'm thinking Advent Children with night elves; something WoW players can post about on the forums and be like "decent story...awesome action scenes and visuals (loved the part where the nelf druid stopped fighting and turned from a bear back into a nelf and started dancing to stall the furbolgs XD)...overall i give it 8/10" about. At least a Boll interpretation would've been fun to watch and make fun of. If we were lucky, it would've been live action. That shit would've been incredible.
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Call me crazy, but I would rather watch/buy/see movies that are good, made by a dickhead director, than movies that are bad, made by a dickhead director.
well obviously but we don't have that luxury anymore because all new movies are DREADFUL and cater exclusively to simpletons and emotionless dullards. i could lose most of my fingers in an explosion and still have enough digits to count the GREAT MOVIES that have been released in the last 10 years.
it's really kinda baffling that so many people don't GET uwe boll. it's like people cannot understand the value of mst3k-quality movies without comedians literally dubbing a commentary track over the movie.
DUMP AUDIENCE
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ps this is the best thing on the internet
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oh man hundley that is pretty awesome
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Boll is great because he plays to the internet crowd, but they don't get it. I mean copying Hundley and posting youtube, how can you take anything by this guy seriously?
I am sad that people want this guy to stop.
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ahahaha man, i cannot believe him. i wonder what the kids' reactions are when all they did was make some gay movie and sign the petition, and UWE BOLL HIMSELF tracks them down on the internet and makes fun of their youtube videos. they.... they cannot even afford a chain... it's absurd. actually i think it'd be pretty awesome to wake up in the morning or whatever and find someone linked you to a video of uwe boll trashtalking your youtube projects, so i don't even feel too bad for them.
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OK so this debate is over. I'm assuming you'll all sign the petition now under various names
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Hello 200,000 overreacting idiots or people who signed it because they really don't care
MICHAEL BAY AND STEVEN SPIELBERG BOTH SIGNED THIS PETITION!!!!?!?!?!?!
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Bay deserves an anti-Bay petition more than Boll deserves an anti-Boll petition.
Also I watched "In the Name of the King" today and enjoyed it more than almost every major film that's been out in the last year or so.
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Bay deserves an anti-Bay petition more than Boll deserves an anti-Boll petition.
Also I watched "In the Name of the King" today and enjoyed it more than almost every major film that's been out in the last year or so.
Ah, this explains everything.
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Bay deserves an anti-Bay petition more than Boll deserves an anti-Boll petition.
Also I watched "In the Name of the King" today and enjoyed it more than almost every major film that's been out in the last year or so.
Enjoyed it in a so bad it's good way I assume? I've seen bits and pieces of it, it looks pretty terrible (the production values look alright though).
I've looked at a couple of Boll movies but apart from House of the Dead I haven't really found any that entertaining. Alone in the Dark was hideously boring and poor.
The man himself is awesome though, the way he directly responds to internet petitions and people talking crap about him is great. Hopefully in 20 years there'll be an 'Ed Wood' style biopic made about the man.
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i hate just coming back and posting more youtube videos but:
i don't even know what to say about this except that it is wonderful and i can watch it over and over
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What the hell is that Hundley? Man. So I guess Uwe Boll actually *is* in on the joke? I had no idea.
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Uwe Boll is my hero.
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I think he's finally lost his mind.
i think this is that GENIUS he was talking about
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I'm all up for a "STOP MICHAEL BAY MAKING MOVIES" petition, but only if I can get Boll himself to endorse it.
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I'm going to go to postal.movieset.com at some point in the future.
I might even see whatever film that it is advertising (is it Postal?), even though I am confident that it will suck.
I owe that much to him at least.
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http://tformers.com/transformers-uwe-boll-challenges/9364/news.html
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thats ridiculous.
guy: What do you think of Uwe Boll?
Bay: I don't care about Uwe Boll. next question
Boll: THAT FUCKING DICK! HOW DARE HE!!!!
I think he has mental problems
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Bay is pretty horrible himself anyway.
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I actually find bay's movies worse than Bolls. Like they should possibly be good, they have all the advantages in the industry yet SLOW MOTION ROBOT BACKFLIP FOR THIRTY SECONDS. Also from Eurogamer:
Michael Bay has dodged videogame film director Uwe Boll's boxing match challenge but has thrown yet more Internet punches in an ongoing slanging match that threatens to turn boring any second, if it hasn't already.
"Can we stop talking about this guy! I never even heard his name till last week when he made threats and rants. The guy is a f***ing idiot, making threats to me, Clooney, Eli Roth, says he has a doctorate - but uses the word "retard" in his vocabulary, come on," Bay wrote in the Ask Michael Bay section of his website.
He then went on to point out that Boll filmed his YouTube message asking for a fight in a "low rent offices, with 15 year old 3/4 machines, archaic computers" and said Boll was "some dumb chump trying to get some fame when he has none".
"Nothing sadder [than] when he had his screening in LA to an over half empty movie house," Bay added, before signing off by asking us all to drop the subject. Unless Boll does something spectacular in response, we probably will.
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Uwe Boll has a huge point. Even Michael Bay's comment supports Boll.
"MY OFFICE HAS MORE MONEY THAN YOURS"
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Uwe Boll has a huge point. Even Michael Bay's comment supports Boll.
"MY OFFICE HAS MORE MONEY THAN YOURS"
uuhhhh Boll just made a video attacking the budget of YOUTUBE filmmakers ok, so you need to find a new reason to hate Bay.
I think everybody knows why Kaworu doesn't like Bay, and it's ironic because it's the same reason most people don't like Boll :S
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Although Bay's a piece of shit Director that the only reason anyone even knows was because he was able to plaster his name all over a movie for a very fucking well known franchise.
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Really?
I thought Armageddon was a pretty stellar movie, a list actors, great plot, effects and whatnot.
I thought Pearl Harbor was kinda gay, but it was a well done movie.
Other than that I agree his movies aren't to my liking, but most of you guys seem to be riding the bandwagon started by a few disheartened transformers fans.
It's weird to even talk about this though, because there is not a SINGLE Bay movie that is as terrible as Boll's best film. (Whatever film you think that may be, they are all pretty much at zero.)
Back on topic though, I dunno if someone posted it here, but the intro scene to Postal is online, and it is preeeeeetty offensive, and not funny. If it were funny that'd be another story, but I really think this may be another huge blow to Boll's credibility. He will definitely get a surge of signatures for that petition on opening weekend, and he won't be able to blame Michael Bay anymore.
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no one fucking cares about boll get it in your head ok
the only people who signed that are either a) dumb or b) joke signing
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obviously there's half a dozen people contributing to this topic so a) you're wrong and b) fuck off
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Really?
I thought Armageddon was a pretty stellar movie, a list actors, great plot, effects and whatnot.
I thought Pearl Harbor was kinda gay, but it was a well done movie.
Other than that I agree his movies aren't to my liking, but most of you guys seem to be riding the bandwagon started by a few disheartened transformers fans.
It's weird to even talk about this though, because there is not a SINGLE Bay movie that is as terrible as Boll's best film. (Whatever film you think that may be, they are all pretty much at zero.)
Back on topic though, I dunno if someone posted it here, but the intro scene to Postal is online, and it is preeeeeetty offensive, and not funny. If it were funny that'd be another story, but I really think this may be another huge blow to Boll's credibility. He will definitely get a surge of signatures for that petition on opening weekend, and he won't be able to blame Michael Bay anymore.
I enjoyed In the Name of the King a lot more than I enjoyed The Island.
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I thought Armageddon was a pretty stellar movie, a list actors, great plot, effects and whatnot.
I thought Pearl Harbor was kinda gay, but it was a well done movie.
you don't know how to watch movies
most of you guys seem to be riding the bandwagon started by a few disheartened transformers fans
also stupid apparently. people aren't JUST NOW FIGURING OUT that michael bay is a totally worthless human being. this has been extremely clear for a very long time.
It's weird to even talk about this though, because there is not a SINGLE Bay movie that is as terrible as Boll's best film. (Whatever film you think that may be, they are all pretty much at zero.)
oh so you have seen all of uwe boll's movies????
man even as utterly terrible and ridiculous as uwe boll is this is such a risky/idiotic statement because you're talking about MICHAEL BAY here. you can pretty much just turn a camera on, throw it in the mud, walk away, and come back two hours later and have a movie with more style and depth than a michael bay film.
i guess i can give you credit for trying to SAVE THIS THREAD but by continuing to post in here you are sticking your neck out far enough for some mean fuck like me to stroll by and chop it off. i mean you are SERIOUSLY DEFENDING MICHAEL BAY WHAT THE SHIT IS WRONG WITH YOU
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Yeah I actually dislike Bay because he can't direct for shit, because his movies are totally unoriginal and rely on SPECIAL EFFECTS to try and hide that they are... crap, superficial and devoid of anything which makes a movie actually... good. Regardless of Transformers, I'd still say he sucks, and to suggest that Bay-hatin' was a bandwagon started by transfans is very ignorant (hint: transformers fans are retards and their only complaints with the film being the designs... and not with the terrible plot, bad dialogue, cliche stereotyped characters, uninspired and uninteresting directing etc etc).
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I'm gonna stand up for Bay on one point here. He is actually great at directing visuals. He may be shit at directing the story, the acting etc, but at directing real time explosions etc, I don't think there is any better.
Whilst I don't particulary like his movies at all for its originality, emotive aspect etc, I can still appreciate that he knows how to direct action movies. He doesn't claim to be anything other than an action movie director. You watch a Bay movie and apart from the transformers etc, everything else isn't CGI, its pretty all done in realtime, which I think is kinda cool.
when I watch one of his movies I feel like I'm watching one of those 3D simulator rides rather than an emotive film that touches me. As long as I think this, I haven't really got a problem with Bay. Bay isn't the reason why producers and studios are dicks. It's been like this for a very long time. It's the natural progression in all art forms including music.
I don't think Bay makes the worst films ever in the world, but if your hating him becuase he gets so much success for making mediocre films, then thats pretty pathetic imo.
ARGGHH I HATE BAY HE'S SO SHIT BUT SO SUCCESSFUL
ARGHH I HATE 50 CENT HE'S SO SHIT BUT SO SUCCESSFUL
BOLL IS AWESOME!! I MEAN HE'S SHIT, BUT HES NOT THAT SUCCESSFUL SO ITS OK!!! AND HE MAKES FUNNY YOUTUBE VIDEOS SO HIS MOVIES ARE +1
I don't subscribe to this bullshit and it sort makes you all look a bit 'non-conformist' in a FUCK BUSH kind of way
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The fact that he's not that successful means that he's not significant enough to actually be harmful to the film industry like people such as Bay are.
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obviously there's half a dozen people contributing to this topic so a) you're wrong and b) fuck off
half a dozen people telling you how dumb this is
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The fact that he's not that successful means that he's not significant enough to actually be harmful to the film industry like people such as Bay are.
People keep saying harmful to the film industry etc...
There have always been films that were made purely to sell tickets for years. The studios over the years have always pushed for final cut so they will get the most amount of people to watch the movie. Bay is not harming the industry, it was already harmed. It's not like it suddently got worse when Bay showed up.
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Contributing to an already growing problem doesn't make you any better than the people that started the problem.
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tell me what exactly the problem is? There has always been the mainstream and the underground in everything. The difference is, the mainstream movies 20/30 years ago are now classics so its ok to like them. Anything new coming out with the same sort of goal in mind is suddenly DESTROYING THE MOVIE INDUSTRY!!!
It's been like this for years. People have always been impressed by visuals from day one. People were impressed to see a giant Ape in King Kng. People were impressed to see Colour in the theatres in Wizard of Oz. People were impressed to see the realistic animation in Pinocchio. People were impressed to see robotic shark in Jaws. People are impressed to see detailed CGI robots in transformers.
Whether you like the movies or not, the industry hasn't changed that much, just progressed in technology. Michael Bay isn't the only director making cheesy action movies.
Film is more than just a medium to make you think. Different films serve different purposes. Michael Bay films are almost always focusing on the visual aspects. He admits that he skips the romance scenes so he can focus on spending all of his time on the action scenes. It pays off, becuase for what they are, they're really incredible. He's an action movie director. Watch all the old action movies, they pretty much all have terrible dialogue, story and focus completely on the action.
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As good as the visuals were back then for most of the movies you mentioned, they also had other good qualities to them that made them memorable for more than just the "impressive visuals". Unlike those movies, most of todays films are really nothing more than AMAZING VISUALS and just enough storytelling to get you from one cgi special effect to the next.
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That may be true in Bays films, but there are still a lot of films made today that focus on story etc. My point was that a lot of action films like Die hard, Arnie films, Rambo etc they all did well at the box office and they are in simular vein as Bay films. They had weak story lines, cheesy/funny dialogue but still managed to be entertaining.
There's always been box office films and serious films.
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Michael Bay
I agree with everything for the most part. However, it is clear that sometime Bay has tried to direct a thought-provoking movie or two (The Island) and it always ends up being a horrible mistake. As far as hollow action movies go though I know what I am getting when I go to Transformers or Bad Boyz 2 or whatever so it doesn't bother me that they aren't thought-provoking cinematographic masterpieces about sullen 30-somethings in black turtlenecks.
ARGHH I HATE 50 CENT HE'S SO SHIT BUT SO SUCCESSFUL
I disagree with the 50 Cent comparison because 50 Cent is legitimately bringing bad things into the world while Michael Bay is really only recording gasoline explosions. Modern gangster rap tells people it's perfectly fine to objectify women and brag about selling drugs and murder other people for street cred and HEY GUYS I GOT SHOT NINE TIMES AWESOME. I think the most disconcerting thing about it is that they and their audience take the music and its messages seriously whereas gangster rap in the 80s probably didn't. The difference is that Michael Bay isn't really delivering negative messages (or, sans for The Island, any sort of message at all) while 50 Cent probably is.
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ok maybe 50 Cent was a bad example, but insert and mainstream artist in there instead
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i can't believe it either but we are friends so whatever lol
I had replies written, but it really is absurd to think of Bay as worse than Uwe Boll. I understand that you're anti-establishment and stuff though so I give. Bay represents the man.
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http://kotaku.com/386426/bay-vs-uwe-boll-round-3-bay-agreed-to-fight-%5Bupdated%5D
ITS ON
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Also this strange concept that people only dislike Michael Bay because he represents the mainstream is mindboggling. Even IN THE MAINSTREAM, the man is well known for being one of Hollywood's least talented directors. He's notorious for oversentimentalizing most of his movies while lathering on heavy doses of CGI. A list of his movies reads like a shitstain on the underwear of Hollywood:
Transformers (2007)
... aka Transformers: The IMAX Experience (USA: IMAX version)
The Island (2005)
The Lionel Richie Collection (2003) (V) (video "Do It to Me")
Bad Boys II (2003)
... aka Good Cops: Bad Boys II (Malaysia: English title)
Pearl Harbor (2001)
... aka Pearl Harbour (UK: promotional title)
Armageddon (1998/I)
The Rock (1996)
Bad Boys (1995)
fuuuuck me.
He's long been known as one of the worst directors, and while you can like him all you want, you have no right or legitimate claim to say we dislike him because of his mainstream success. He represents all that's BAD about the established mainstream, not the mainstream itself.
And hell, I know this won't convince you but
I thought Armageddon was a pretty stellar movie, a list actors, great plot, effects and whatnot.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/armageddon/ ranked at a lousy 40%.
And before you say that Rotten Tomatoes has a bias against the mainstream, as I mentioned yesterday, the Iron Man movie is at an impressive 95%, higher than most indie films even get near.
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Boll rules for doing that as a stunt.
like people would buy 10 postal tickets to watch that
hell no
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http://kotaku.com/386426/bay-vs-uwe-boll-round-3-bay-agreed-to-fight-%5Bupdated%5D
ITS ON
No it isn't. :(
I wish I saw that video before they took it down.
:edit:
Wait. I think this is it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXzh1GkyWoU
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http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10361&Itemid=53
I hope Uwe Boll says something like "fuck you, you signed up for the gum, I'll carry on making movies"
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It's very interesting no doubt. I definitely won't be surprised when Bay has a restraining order out on Boll.
That's awesome about Stride gum though. Hopefully some bigger companies will get in on it too.
The more that happens though, the more I doubt Boll will honor the petition. It's as if he really believes he has people on his side too.
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well thankfully he has reason not to honour the petition now that companies are basically paying people to sign it for free gum, that means that any signitures after that deal was made are effectively INVALID and Uwe Boll can cpntinue making movies, and he has a great resonb too!
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well thankfully he has reason not to honour the petition now that companies are basically paying people to sign it for free gum, that means that any signitures after that deal was made are effectively INVALID and Uwe Boll can cpntinue making movies, and he has a great resonb too!
or, he has more reason to honour it, because there is now money in him not making movies!
Pretty soon people will actually be paying him to stop making movies.
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hows he getting the money for not making movies?
The gum company are using this to advertise themselves(and thus invalidate the petition), they are the only ones who will profit.
Hey will you sign this petition against banning somebody
"nah, I don;t mind him"
There's free things in it for you!
"oh cool I like free things :D​"
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Sorry that's what I meant. Assuming this gets bigger and more companies involved, there could be an entire market for keeping Uwe Boll out of Hollywood.
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Which would be a complete waste of a time and money to try to stop one guy from directing.
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I agree, but apparently Stride doesn't think so, and I don't think any of us would be surprised if more joined them.
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yeah. there are plenty of retards in the world so I wouldn't be suprised :(
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NO
http://kotaku.com/391105/postal-opening-on-four-screens-yes-four
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This is obviously a conspiracy led by Michael Bay.
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gross censorship gone mad!
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man i was even thinking about buying this shirt and wearing it to the theatre
(http://www.postalshop.eu/images/product_images/info_images/Nazigold%20Front.jpg)
:(