Uwe Boll Spills His Guts

Kimi writes "Love him or hate him, it's always entertaining to read about Uwe Boll, especially with his latest movie Bloodrayne due to be released shortly. 1UP has an interview with the man himself to find out just what he is up to." From the article: "Let's drop the bombshell before we move on: Rumors were flying this summer that Boll had picked up the rights to the controversial first-person-shooter Postal franchise, but developer Running With Scissors quickly debunked the speculation. In talking with Boll, we asked him about his interest in Postal and - lo and behold - were told he's currently in negotiations for the rights to the series, and expects to start shooting Postal sometime next year. Additionally, he'll be writing the script hand-in-hand with the game designers, a first for him and video game movies. It should be interesting to see how Boll handles a game whose gameplay revolves around pure shock value." Good to see we can expect more quality cinema in the future.

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Re:I'm sorry...

[mindstormpt]

Uwe Boll might be the world's greatest misunderstood filmmaking genius.

Oh, now I remember!

Tara Reid in Alone in the dark

[rAiNsT0rm]

Simply THE WORST excuse for an actress was plain to see in Alone in the Dark. I never have been so amazed at poor acting that made it into a big budget film. Thank God even Uwe had the stones to say it was one of the worst performances ever in his interview. I just can't agree with him on his skills or the "quality" of his movies.

Alone in the Dark was abysmal, yet he continually tries to stick up fo rit and claim it was poorly promoted. Sorry, promotion was the least of your concerns here.

He is unappologetic and filled with excuses for his work. I found the interview to be a wash and did nothing in my eyes to help his case.

I'm disappointed

[KDR_11k]

I was hoping he committed harakiri and literally spilled his guts. I don't think I'm alone with that sentiment.

What's with the typos today?

[kaellinn18]

Good to see we can expect more quality cinema in the future.

You misspelled "shit."

Emotion anywhere?

[mwvdlee]

I don't care much for pure action movies at all, so I'm not too familiair with Uwe's but reading this, and other, interviews, I get a certain image of what kind of person he is:

1) Be genuinly loves movies and loves to make movies. He truely wants to make good movies.

2) He has no emotions.

Why statement #2? From the article:

I think the only weak part in Alone in the Dark is maybe Tara Reid's acting. The action is good, the creature is good, and it moves fast-forward and is what a video game based movie should be.
No. A video game based movie, like any movie, should have a story. Whether there is any action, any creature or what the pace should be, is completely irrelevant. Only when the story requires such elements does the movie require them.

I don't see that [Alone in the Dark] is less quality as Aliens vs. Predator
Aliens vs. Predators was an incredibly shallow and boring movie. I consider AvsP to be one of the worst movies ever made since it simply has no depth and barely a story.

Postal could be a movie that's like Falling Down but more as a satire, more as a thing where you can actually laugh about it also.
Though mostly subtle, Falling Down is a satire, it is a satire of society. I fear Uwe does not understand "subtle".

And... he's doing a phone interview whilst in the middle of shooting scenes... WTF???

He also talks a lot about money. Earning hard cash on your product is a good thing, but he seems to be judging his movies on how much profit they make and blames marketing for any lack of such. This seems like an awefully bleak view of reality and lacking completely of artistic aspirations.

I really get the (frightening) impression that Uwe Boll defines a "good movie" as "lots of action" and other objective terms whereas a movie, like any story, is 99.9% emotion.

It would seems he talks about things like depth of the characters in his upcomming Bloodrayne movie, lets just hope he's not talking about how deep the bullets can penetrate.

Filthy didn't think too highly of Alone In the Dar

[rev_sanchez]

quote: In retrospect, please add one finger to every other review I've ever done, because none deserve as low a rating as this.
his review

Uwe Boll Behind the Scenes

[nerdup]

For an interesting perspective on the esteemed Mr. Boll and the way he operates, check out this report:

http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2649

As someone who has worked in the film industry, this story just rings entirely too true.