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Uwe Boll To Quit Making Movies With 1M Signatures

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the just-means-he-is-switching-media dept.

An anonymous reader writes to mention that Uwe Boll, the infamous German director behind such 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."

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  1. Sign the petition! by JediLow · · Score: 4, Informative
    Over 60k signatures already!

    http://www.petitiononline.com/RRH53888/petition.html

  2. The REAL reason he's quitting by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Boll is actually quitting because the German government recently closed the tax loophole that allowed Boll and other German filmmakers to set up their "films" as tax shelters for businessmen (with no intent of ever making any money). The gravy train has dried up and the scam is over.

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    SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
    1. Re:The REAL reason he's quitting by Sam1230 · · Score: 3, Informative

      That link doesn't say anything like that...

  3. Re:Signed, signed, SIGNED! by Androclese · · Score: 5, Informative

    Petition Link

  4. Re:just let him be by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I don't get it. Why petition the guy to stop making movies? Maybe his movies will be quickly forgotten, maybe they'll be cult classics 50 years from now. As long as he manages to finance them somehow and stay in business, who cares? If you don't like his movies, do what I do: just don't go.

    You're missing the point. As long as he's in the business, no one's favorite videogames are safe from being turned into horrible movie adaptations, preventing decent adaptations from ever being made. It's self defense. ; )
  5. Re:just let him be by Idaho · · Score: 5, Informative

    What was the last German movie to gain any kind of international attention? Run Lola Run?


    How about these for example:

    - Good Bye Lenin! (2003) - nominated for Golden Globe (ok, perhaps that doesn't amount to much, but it's a nice movie)
    - Der Untergang (2004) - oscar nomination for "best foreign language film of the year" (where "foreign" means "not english")
    - Das Leben der Anderen (2006) - won the oscar for "best foreign language film", as well as many other awards in several international film festivals (Great Britain and Canada among those)

    That's quite a few movies since Lola rennt (1998). Looks like there are quite a few German directors who are actually doing better after all... those movies are all very much worthwhile watching, by the way (though quite disturbing).

    P.S. I'm not German so I'm bound to have missed several more good movies.
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    Every expression is true, for a given value of 'true'
  6. Re:What's so bad about Uwe Boll? by MukiMuki · · Score: 5, Informative

    Never mind that once someone with actual fighting experience stepped up to the challenge (and barely weighed less than Uwe), the fight was denied. Boll only accepted entrants who weighed significantly less and had no idea what they were doing.