Uwe Boll Will Quit Making Movies!

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HL

#21 April 07, 2008, 02:31:53 pm

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Quote from: Impeal on April 07, 2008, 02:03:49 pm

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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Lyndon

#22 April 07, 2008, 02:56:13 pm

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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.

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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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#23 April 07, 2008, 02:57:56 pm

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Quote from: radio_raheem on April 07, 2008, 02:40:10 pm

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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#24 April 07, 2008, 03:07:17 pm

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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...

http://harmonyzone.org

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#25 April 07, 2008, 03:16:20 pm

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Quote from: Afura on April 07, 2008, 11:47:15 am

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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#26 April 07, 2008, 03:21:21 pm

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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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#27 April 07, 2008, 03:29:13 pm

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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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Kaworu

#28 April 07, 2008, 03:50:01 pm

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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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#29 April 07, 2008, 04:09:51 pm

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Quote from: Jester on April 07, 2008, 03:29:13 pm

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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#30 April 07, 2008, 04:24:37 pm

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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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#31 April 07, 2008, 04:32:50 pm

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Quote from: Hundley on April 07, 2008, 08:00:00 am

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 =(((

....

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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Marcus

#32 April 07, 2008, 05:15:31 pm

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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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#33 April 07, 2008, 06:40:57 pm

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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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#34 April 07, 2008, 07:35:06 pm

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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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#35 April 07, 2008, 07:46:29 pm

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I am in shock that a GAMING community supports Uwe Boll! What a world!

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#36 April 07, 2008, 07:58:27 pm

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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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#37 April 07, 2008, 07:58:41 pm

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Quote from: Eric on April 07, 2008, 07:46:29 pm

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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Lyndon

#38 April 07, 2008, 08:56:50 pm

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Quote from: Kaworu on April 07, 2008, 07:58:27 pm

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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#39 April 07, 2008, 09:24:23 pm

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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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Lyndon

#40 April 07, 2008, 09:31:27 pm

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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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