Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

The Postal Movie is Really Bad

Posted by Zonk on from the those-poor-men dept.

Chris Kohler and Chris Baker of Wired had the deeply unfortunate task of watching Uwe Boll's latest affront to cinema and gaming: Postal. Kohler has a rundown on the exceedingly strange movie and its premiere. "Boll seems out to shock his audience into stunned disbelief rather than actually entertain them. Early in the movie, we get a long, leisurely shot of a fully nude Foley scratching his reproductive organs. I don't want to sound like I personally was offended or shocked by anything. In fact, the only time I laughed was during the movie's opening sequence, a comedy skit in the cockpit of one of the September 11 airplanes (they're fighting over the number of virgins they get in Paradise). It was legitimately well-paced and funny. But it was followed by 90 minutes of flat jokes." Baker has a much more in-depth look at Boll and the film's background ... if that's something you really want to hear about.

4 of 87 comments (clear)

  1. I... by TellarHK · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... I really, really don't know what words can be used to describe what I just read. Really. I don't. September 11th and Nazi gold jokes are bad enough, but is the world really ready for a movie featuring Dave Foley scratching his fully exposed balls?

    --
    My own pointless vanity vintage computing page
    1. Re:I... by UbuntuDupe · · Score: 4, Funny

      In fairness, George Lucas scratching his fully-exposed balls would have been an improvement over the Prequels.

      --
      Apology to Ubuntu forum.
    2. Re:I... by ConceptJunkie · · Score: 4, Funny

      In fairness, George Lucas scratching his fully-exposed balls would have been an improvement over the Prequels

      Isn't that more or less what the Prequels were?

      --
      You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
  2. This is not news. by mdenham · · Score: 5, Funny

    I mean, it's about an Uwe Boll movie. Of course the movie sucks!