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Uwe Boll, Other Filmmakers Sue Thousands of Movie Pirates

Posted by Soulskill on from the part-two-the-revenge dept.

linzeal writes "Directors whose films have done poorly at the box office are increasingly being solicited by high-powered law firms to file lawsuits with offers of settlement. This practice, which the EFF has been calling extortive and 'mafia-like', has resulted in courts starting to rule in favor of the consumer, and in some cases throwing out the lawsuits. This is all fine and dandy, however, when you are considered the world's worst director and you largely finance films through your own holding company. At that point, the rhetoric and ridicule gets ratcheted up rather quickly."

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  1. Sorry, I don't buy it. by Kelson · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are they seriously trying to convince me that someone would want to pirate Uwe Boll's movies?

    1. Re:Sorry, I don't buy it. by aquila.solo · · Score: 5, Funny

      Maybe they're being sued for bad taste?

    2. Re:Sorry, I don't buy it. by interkin3tic · · Score: 5, Funny

      There are plenty of people who are into light to severe masochism out there, easily in the thousands.

      It's a gateway really. You watch Uwe Boll movies, and maybe Street Fighter, and tell yourself "It's so bad, its funny!" Eventually though, the crappulence gets boring, you move to harder stuff, like the Mortal Kombat movie (not the new proof of concept one). Before you know it, you're living in a gutter, offering sexual favors for a copy of the Star Wars Holiday special.

      I applaud Herr Boll for trying to clean up the streets and atone for his past actions.

    3. Re:Sorry, I don't buy it. by DeadDecoy · · Score: 5, Funny

      Haven't they been punished enough for watching an Uwe Boll film?

    4. Re:Sorry, I don't buy it. by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

      Even claims it is among the best VG->Movie films ever.

      Being amongst the best VG->Movie films isn't saying that much.

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    5. Re:Sorry, I don't buy it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      BloodRayne was absolute garbage. The only film I've seen that was worse was BloodRayne 2.

      I'll give Uwe Boll a point for accuracy. The movies were just as shitty as the games.

  2. Alone in the Dark by Type44Q · · Score: 5, Funny

    From Uwe Boll's wikipedia entry (this is priceless): "Another reviewer wrote that Alone in the Dark was "so poorly built, so horribly acted and so sloppily stitched together that it's not even at the straight-to-DVD level."[16] For example, in one scene a character who was "killed" can visibly be seen getting up as the actor prematurely made the move to get off the set."