Uwe Boll

[Schadenfreude]

Why?

How?

 

[CarlKillerMiller]

I heard somewhere that he has a stockpile of cash built up, his movies are slated to make fairly small amounts of cash (Blood Rayne was only supposed to make about 2 mil domestic (Udo Kier was in it, I mean, come on(Holy Fvck, inlaid parenthesis))), and he bought up the licenses dirt cheap.

 

[FFactory0x]

WTF!!!

I mean his movies suck and I still dont get how he can pull in actors like Kingsley for Bloodrayne and check out the stars in Dungion Siege

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460780/

Jason Strathon
Ron Perlmen
Ray Liotta
Burt Renolds
Matt Lilliard

Man these people must be hurting for money

 

[HamburgerBoy]

It's a shame that he'll be doing Far Cry. At least the other games that he made movies off of sucked when it came to playing as well.

 

[Schadenfreude]

Someone kill him!

Please?

 

[jonessoda]

Are ALL his movies based off video games?

 

[rpl318]

Originally posted by: Jehovah
Someone kill him!

Please?

I agree. He must die.

 

[Schadenfreude]

Originally posted by: CarlKillerMiller
I heard somewhere that he has a stockpile of cash built up, his movies are slated to make fairly small amounts of cash (Blood Rayne was only supposed to make about 2 mil domestic (Udo Kier was in it, I mean, come on(Holy Fvck, inlaid parenthesis))), and he bought up the licenses dirt cheap.

So there's no studio backing involved in this? Or is he involved with some government conspiracy/german mob connections?

 

[Whisper]

He's also apparently got a doctorate in literature...maybe after all that heavy reading, he decided he wanted his movies to require absolutely no mental effort from viewers. Right on, I love brain candy.

 

[Mo0o]

If the Halo project is ever associated with Boll I will personally fund an assassination

 

[toekramp]

Repost

 

[Schadenfreude]

Taken from Wikipedia:

Uwe Boll (born June 22, 1965 in Wermelskirchen, Germany) is a director of movies based on video games.

Uwe Boll often credits Phil Cimoch, whom he recognizes as a mentor and friend. Boll has often stated that Cimoch is the inspiration for many of his movies and ideas. His BOLL KG company slogan declares itself the "World Market Leader in Video Game Adaptations", and has produced such movies as The House of the Dead, Alone in the Dark, and BloodRayne. He is also at the helm of the forthcoming Hunter: The Reckoning, Postal, Fear Effect, Dungeon Siege, Far Cry, and several others he has acquired the movie rights to. He is currently in a bidding war for rights to Half-Life and Metal Gear Solid.

His movies have achieved some discontent and exceptionally poor box office returns (though The House of the Dead broke $5.73 million after a moderately good opening weekend) and are often panned by professional critics and moviegoers alike, for various reasons. His adaptations frequently deviate from the source material, which tends to irritate fans of the original video game the movie is based on. For example, his recent film Alone in the Dark was criticised for departing from the video game's survival-horror style to a more action-oriented one.

Boll has made statements comparing himself to directors such as Sergio Leone and David Lynch. He has also stated that the poor performance of his movies is mainly due to "dumb audiences". In some instances Boll attempts to match his movie version more closely to the video game series it is based on, such as an attempt to have Rayne (from the movie BloodRayne) altered so that in future games she would more closely resemble Kristanna Loken, the actress who plays her in Boll's movie.

Despite the criticism, Boll has been known to interact with fans by regularly posting on various internet message boards including IGN [1]. SomethingAwful [2], and The Digital Bits [3]. Due to his reputation, Boll has been known to use various aliases based on German folklore.

Boll continues to secure investors for the rights to future videogame-to-movie adaptations, despite the controversy surrounding his products. His investors are mostly German (in Hollywood derisively referred to as "stupid German money"). He carefully secures the rights for potential future adaptations, afterwards doing all of the actual production himself, and swiftly finishes the product.

Whereas most directors would no longer be able to acquire the funding to continue such projects after the immence criticism against them and the small returns, it is possible Boll is exempt because he funds them under a loophole in German tax law that is supported by contributors and actually rewards movies that perform badly, via a writeoff at the end of the year. It has been reported, however, that this loophole has been revised. Starting on January 2006, contributors to failed movies will no longer be able to profit from failed films through a tax writeoff at the end of the year. This could deliver a major blow to Boll's production company, potentially making it difficult to capitalize on the commercial failure of the projects he has become associated with. This in turn would make it more difficult to lure the investors that have helped Boll continue his projects in the past. However, any projects announced before midnight on the last business day of 2005 are grandfathered in under the old law. In reference to this scheme of commercial failure for financial gain, some have referred to Boll KG as "Bialystock and Boll" (a reference to the 1968 film The Producers)

Boll earned a doctorate in literature from the University of Cologne in 1995. He has written two books, Wie man in Deutschland einen Film drehen muss ('How one has to make a movie in Germany') and Die Gattung Serie und ihre Genres ('Serials and their genres'), on themes of serial TV.

Boll was a producer and director for Taunus Film-Produktions GmbH from 1995 through 2000.

There is hope after all! Yay for law reform! :thumbsup:

Originally posted by: Mo0o
If the Halo project is ever associated with Boll I will personally fund an assassination

What about Half-life or MGS? That would spell doom (not the game) for those stellar series' futures!

Originally posted by: toekramp
Repost

Let us not bicker about this; instead let us gather in our hatred for the man named Uwe Boll.

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: Jehovah
This in turn would make it more difficult to lure the investors that have helped Boll continue his projects in the past. However, any projects announced before midnight on the last business day of 2005 are grandfathered in under the old law. In reference to this scheme of commercial failure for financial gain, some have referred to Boll KG as "Bialystock and Boll" (a reference to the 1968 film The Producers)

That explains why Boll announced Hunter: The Reckoning, Far Cry, and Fear Effect already. Trying to get as many under the wire as possible.

As if Hitler, WWII, Nazism, the Holocaust, and an unhealthy obsessions with David Hasselhoff weren't bad enough....the Germans have to go and give us Uwe Boll too.

 

[suicidalpigeon]

boll is just trying to make profit, he does not care for the movie itself for that he hires actors(esses) at the last moment. that results in poor performance since they have no time to reherse and just wants easy money. he also blames other people, never has he accepting his worthlessness.

 

[Schadenfreude]

Originally posted by: rpl318

Originally posted by: Jehovah
Someone kill him!

Please?

I agree. He must die.

The more I read about this filth of a German movie director the more I stand by my post. :|