Poll: Uwe Boll

[matrix3509]

According to Wikipedia, Boll uses his own production company to finance his films. He gets investors from Germany because of tax shelters that allow donors to write off 100% of film investments as tax deductions, and also he apparently gets 50% or something from the government.

So half of this soul-numbing badness is being financed by the German taxpayers? They are dealing with a fucking credit crunch! I am fairly sure they have better things to waste money on.

That is still puzzling as far as the investors go. Why does it make sense to finance films they know are going to fail? Why not give money to someone where there is at least a slim chance of a success? Would they actually loose money if they financed a profitable film?

Unfortunately, this means two things:

1. Boll is smart enough to use this loophole.
2. He effectively has an infinite moneyz cheat enabled to make his films.

The worst part about it, is that he truly believes that he is a genius. That makes him incredibly dangerous. What if he became the German president or Prime Minister? The world would end.

 

[forever saturday]

no mr. boll i expect you to die.

 

[Avatar Roku]

no mr. boll i expect you to die.

I don't usually do this, but you win the thread.

 

[Higurashi]

Feh, he doesn't hurt anyone with films. If anything, I can laugh.

It is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_(film)

This, for example, I will laugh at. I think I might already be. x)

Uwe Boll doesn't stop because he is:

"the only motherfucking genius in the whole terrible business" and that other directors such as Michael Bay and Eli Roth are "silly retards". He promises that his upcoming film Postal will be "way better than all that social-critic George Clooney trash that you get every boring weekend."

Oh my god. Sorry for quoting another post, but this had me laughing so hard in my mind.

 

[Fightgarr]

I'm going to go on a whiney bitchy mini-rant here.

Every already knows Uwe Boll is terrible okay? This is not a question. There is no one who, in their right mind thinks his films are good despite watching them for entertainment's sake. Threads like these aren't about whether or not about it being good or not, your just having a wank that your opinions are the same as everyone else. You know what I'd like? A fucking thread where someone defends Uwe Boll because we already have heard a million zillion times about how much his films suck and have the potential to suck more. There is NO need to make this a poll. Why is it that you feel the need to put a poll in a one-sided debate? There is no other side, and if that is your weak justification for making another fucking thread about this guy then please just go post in one of other Uwe Boll Threads (there are many).

Bottom line: You guys are going in circles just stroking each other's opinions that his movies are bad.

For the record no, he doesn't need to be stopped, its funny. What needs to happen is for his movies to be bad enough for people to stop making movies out of games, the art forms should remain separate.

 

[pigmonkey]

I heard there's some weird german tax law that Uwe Boll exploits by making these horrible movies, could be a complete lie but how else does he make money off those things?

 

[Varchld]

Feh, he doesn't hurt anyone with films. If anything, I can laugh.

It is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_(film)

This, for example, I will laugh at. I think I might already be. x)

He kind of is hurting though.
So many game to movie adaptions are his and because so many do poorly, compared to Hollywood standards, people are avoiding doing more and doing them right. This isn't only his fault though as many others not done by him fail too.

But more importantly he's getting 50% of the funding for these films from the German government, which means those funds aren't being put to a good use either by other possibly good film makers or back into other areas of the community. I have no idea of the numbers but how many homeless shelters or schools could be funded for half the cost of one of his films.

I personally really dislike him, but he's not worth worrying about or anything. His films are somewhat watchable at times depending on mood and soberiety, though I haven't seen them all either.

 

[Higurashi]

He kind of is hurting though.
So many game to movie adaptions are his and because so many do poorly, compared to Hollywood standards, people are avoiding doing more and doing them right. This isn't only his fault though as many others not done by him fail too.

But more importantly he's getting 50% of the funding for these films from the German government, which means those funds aren't being put to a good use either by other possibly good film makers or back into other areas of the community. I have no idea of the numbers but how many homeless shelters or schools could be funded for half the cost of one of his films.

I personally really dislike him, but he's not worth worrying about or anything. His films are somewhat watchable at times depending on mood and soberiety, though I haven't seen them all either.

Nah, someone else would make the adaptations and the difference would not be enough to do any difference in my opinion. Regarding the funding... they would not end up where they are needed anyway. But yeah, one could try redirecting it if he was no more, just like with everything else. The main problem is almost always distributing.

 

[Shade Jackrabbit]

Bottom line: You guys are going in circles just stroking each other's opinions that his movies are bad.

But I like having my opinion stroked. D=

 

[runtheplacered]

Bottom line: You guys are going in circles just stroking each other's opinions that his movies are bad.

So finally a thread comes along that we can all agree upon and unite with, and you want to come along and complain that we're not arguing. I'm all for a good debate. I get into them everyday of my life. But occasionally it's nice to agree and have a laugh. This, as you said, happens to be a topic we can all agree upon.

 

[Spacelord]

So finally a thread comes along that we can all agree upon and unite with, and you want to come along and complain that we're not arguing.

Hey runtheplacered, the man has a point. What the hell are we doing, getting along?

JESUS CHRIST SUCKS
I THINK HITLER WAS RIGHT
UWE BOLL IS A FUCKING GENIUS
PORTAL WAS A BAD GAME

Ok.

Go.

 

[dalek sec]

I was kinda hoping that the poll would be less of an obvious question and more like
"Uwe Boll: How do we exterminate him?
- Fire
- Shooting
- Drowning
- Forcing him to sit through ten hours straight of his own movies"

You could just ask me you know.

 

[Steeveeo]

/me waits for Uwe Boll to make a Counterstrike movie. Bad actors calling each other noobs and fags. That would prove...interesting...

 

[mooncalf]

The interview with Uwe Boll I read on the escapist changed my opinion of him from loathing to magnanimous tolerance. I say he deserves the niche he has repeatedly carved for himself, B-Movies with actors and budgets it seems absurd that they got.

 

[kittenbot]

You know what the real problem with Uwe Boll's movies is? everyone on the internet thinks they have a degree in filmography, just watch the movies without any preconceived notion about Uwe boll, they're cheesy but they're actually kind of fun, Postal was the first of his movies I saw, it was actually pretty damn good.

The man is a very interesting person and a pretty bloody good boxer, and his movies aren't as awful as people say, most of you people have only seen maybe one of his movies, I bet a lot of you haven't seen any of them.

People assume that if their favourite property is done in a different way than the original version that the end product is shit (see fallout 1 & 2 vs fallout tactics & 3) the end product can be GOOD, it's just not what YOU would have done if you wrote it yourself, because YOU just want more of the same.

PS the Mario Brothers movie was classic 90s cheese but it was still quite good

 

[Specter_]

From that link:-

Budget $18,000,000
Gross revenue $142,761

Can someone explain to me how he keeps making films?

He sells tons of DVDs. That and the fact that he is a one-man-show. He casts, directs, cuts, promotes, produces everything himself. He even acts!

And of course because he takes a piss on everyone and everything (including himself)

 

[kaiZie]

i think its one of those things. If he wasn't making money out of it he wouldn't do it. and he is clearly making some hype out of every film or this thread wouldn't exist. It's one of those things that even though it's bad we're gonna go watch it or w/e because we know it's bad and want a reason to say so. Boll is either a madman or a genius and somewhere along the line he;s become so well known for crappy films based on games that people actually watch his films!!

 

[cuddly_tomato]

I'm going to go on a whiney bitchy mini-rant here.

Every already knows Uwe Boll is terrible okay? This is not a question. There is no one who, in their right mind thinks his films are good despite watching them for entertainment's sake. Threads like these aren't about whether or not about it being good or not, your just having a wank that your opinions are the same as everyone else. You know what I'd like? A fucking thread where someone defends Uwe Boll because we already have heard a million zillion times about how much his films suck and have the potential to suck more. There is NO need to make this a poll. Why is it that you feel the need to put a poll in a one-sided debate? There is no other side, and if that is your weak justification for making another fucking thread about this guy then please just go post in one of other Uwe Boll Threads (there are many).

Bottom line: You guys are going in circles just stroking each other's opinions that his movies are bad.

For the record no, he doesn't need to be stopped, its funny. What needs to happen is for his movies to be bad enough for people to stop making movies out of games, the art forms should remain separate.

No! No no no no!

Watch this [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy4vcFHf4wY], then tell me the man can make movies. Seriously, the guy is crap at the art of movie making.

 

[AnotherFineMess]

Sadly I haven't watched "In the name of the King"

But I've watched the others... Oh and I was never the same after that.

Alone in the Dark: I started the movie bored, ended bored.

Blood Rayne: I started the movie interested, got to the middle bored, ended up disturbed. (random violent sex scene anyone?)

Postal: I felt bipolar from, utterly bored, to laughing at some bits.

So... is he improving? I don't know... and it hurts to think about it.

(Just realised there's a bloodrayne 2, a Alone in the Dark 2 and a bloodrayne 3 announced)

 

[Vanilla Gorilla]

His films DO make money... surprising I know but:

The tax thing, he is fairly well funded

Rights to video games are pretty cheap to acquire (well, they are when it such high quality titles as bloodrayne) so the majority of his films cost very little to make (name of the king notwithstanding, seriously though RAY LIOTTA??)

Most of his films are straight to video, big market there nowadays, plus minimal cost (no advertising, distribution etc. Plus critics wont have as much chance to point out the obvious failings eg quality)

Rabid videogame fans will apparently watch anything related to their favourite subject (I did make the mistake of seeing Doom in the cinema, although, it was actually pretty damn funny)