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Uwe Boll To Quit Making Movies With 1M Signatures
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."
Having never seen a Uwe Boll movie, can someone tell me what's so bad about him? He's got some serious hate going on on the internet, and I'm just a bit curious as to why?
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.
I'd never sign such a petition. He can make whatever films he wants, so long as people are willing to pay. It's a lot more hurtful to try to convince him to stop with 1 million people asking. That's... well, that kind of thing hurts. The only thing that could lessen it is the whole idea that, chances are, the petition wouldn't really have had 1 million people sign it, but maybe 300 000 sign it 3 or 4 times on average.
-Devin Jeanpierre
This is nothing but a scam to get Uwe more publicity. Right now he's a hack director, I doubt a million people are even really all that aware of him.
This only makes sense if there is a petition to sign asking him to KEEP making movies.
And does it really matter? Nobody has to watch the movies he makes. Let the market decide.
The AntiJoey
If my grandmother rolls her eyes at the idea of internet petitions, what reason is there to think that Uwe would stop making movies from one? Just because someone name Soukin McCocksoff said he's a bad man and should go away on the internet means he'll do it.
I read the internet for the articles.
I don't care what kind of movies he did - it doesn't really matter. What matters is to have self-esteem, and that means noone is going to tell me what I should or should not do. It's not a democracy; when it comes to my life, I am the only one responsible to make the decisions. If I feel that my movies have a value, then just because there's lots of people who disagree doesn't mean much. You know the saying: eat shit - one billion flies can't be wrong.
"The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
His movies may suck, but at least he is using the money and tax laws as they were intended!
Going on means going far
Going far means returning
This kind of hatred over a filmmaker who's creating something is really sad, pathetic and unhealthy. No, his movies might not be very good, and yes they are in fact terrible, but they're hardly the worst films ever made unless you've never seen 90% of the horror\musical genre, or anything made for youtube.
Filmmaking was and never ever has been a democracy. This idea of writing petitions to DEMAND that he stop making movies that you don't ever have to watch or think about is pathetic. 99% of movies are released weekly around the world that you'll never ever know about, simply because you don't care enough. His movies aren't mass-marketed, they're not shoved in your face on TV or fast food restaurants. The only people who are shouting about Uwe Boll loud enough for ANYONE to hear are the people who hate him. Stop hating him, stop shouting about him, and he'll likely go away a lot faster. In fact, if he had been ignored like most other filmmakers he may have gone a long time ago.
No member of the public has a say in who gets to make movies. It's not a democracy. If they want to vote, vote with their dollar. If enough people still pay to see the movies, such that the filmmaker is still in work, then nobody has a right to demand that he goes, except his business partners. That's life. Suck it up. There are bigger injustices in the world to worry about.
Signing a petition is just hilarious and pathetic, and will probably have the opposite effect people intend. This kind of hatred is unhealthy. Have some perspective people. He's not answerable to any of you. Fanboys need to stop kidding themselves into thinking that they have any say in what filmmakers do. They don't. Filmmaking has been a business since its inception, and still is. Even if there were a million signatures he's under no obligation to do anything that a bunch of deluded movie geeks "demand" of him.
He could make a movie where he prints those signatures out, laughs at them, tears them up, and posts the resulting video on youtube. Don't fanboys ever see that the more they are outraged at something inconsequential like this the more ridiculous and hilarious they appear to the rest of us? Pick your battles.
I reacted slightly differently. At first, yes I was eager to sign this ... but then I paused ... what about the Mystery Science Theater 3000s and Cinematic Titanics of the future? Where will they buy the rights to destroy movies for a couple thousand dollars?
Nothing wrong with him making crap films. The problem is with making crap derivative works. Crap derivative works that the original artists in most cases are opposed to.
But, then, that's more a problem with copyrights being owned by corporations. The artists get boned and the lawyers and MBAs get paid. And oh how those (sociopathic, since we increasingly select for that in the corporate world) lawyers and MBAs love to sell their children to cannibals for a few bucks.
Copyright to support the progress of the useful arts? If that is truly the goal (and I'm not saying it is, or should be, just if it is), then give the artist more non-transferrable authority.
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You know, I recently made good on a promise that if they released Bloodrayne back in my store, I would buy both 1 & 2 since they come with the opposite PC game. About a month later, we had both.
/. about him, I had very low expectations. The film wasn't that bad. It was better than some of those b-flicks I like. Bloodrayne 2 lowered the bar substantially, but it was the same vein of steaming crap that some of us out there actually love.
I watched them, and the movies took me back to the low budget films of my youth and how much fun they were to watch. Then as a young adult, working with a low budget film company, how much fun they were to make.
I can appreciate that people don't like the way he is butchering licenses, but honestly, I have seen far worse films than his, and enjoyed them.
Bloodrayne was my introduction to Uwe Boll, and after all of the ruckus on
I'm not saying the man is a genius, but he does have a place in the film world. Maybe instead of quitting, he should just give up direct video game adaptions and make derivative films instead. I would pay to see more so-bad-it's-good films from him.
And also, we really need to get back to hating the fucker's that made the Doom movie. It takes real effort to make something that bad, and defiantly piss off the fan base before you have even began shooting. (No, really, who did they think was coming to see this movie?) If we get them, it may serve as a "scared straight" program for the rest working on game-to-film adaptations.
I don't think people realize just how much one million actually is. If this had any chance of succeeding, I would expect it to be in the six-figure range by now, especially after hitting Digg, Slashdot, and Reddit. One million is a lot of people.
Did you ever notice that *nix doesn't even cover Linux?
Can you say publicity stunt?
For fuck's sake, don't give this clown any more publicity.It's all he lives for.
That's the modern version of "vote early and vote often."
He would just say: All these people SAY they hate me, but it means a million people know who I am and have seen my movies. Doesn't matter whether they like them or not, I still get paid.
As Oscar Wilde said, "There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about".
Claim: Signing and circulating online petitions is an effective way of remedying important issues. Status: False.