Wait a second? Now he can't even get people to watch his movie FOR FREE?
I know stereotyped Germans can be stubborn but this is taking the piss.
I know stereotyped Germans can be stubborn but this is taking the piss.
Postal Pushes Away Viewers at Free Event
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I was one of the happy many to have signed the famous petition.
I do however think that he has gone too far and has been slowly killing the video game genre. He gives the wrong impression of games to everyone else.
I say there's only one option
Tar and feather him and run him out of... everywhere.
I do however think that he has gone too far and has been slowly killing the video game genre. He gives the wrong impression of games to everyone else.
I say there's only one option
Tar and feather him and run him out of... everywhere.
Closest I can find is TVTropes.org [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HideoKojima], which says the following:Wolfdale said:
Of course, with regards Blizzard, he was, apparently quite literally, laughed out of the buidling, according to this MTV article [http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2008/04/18/uwe-boll-wont-ever-be-entering-the-world-of-warcraft/].
What they said was "We will not sell the movie rights, not to you… especially not to you".
Its funny, something terrible happens, so people use it as justification to do worse. 9/11 let the bush admin invade two countries they had wanted to attack for a long time. However any of you Yanks still feel about it, and it was tragic, it's been used to basically bumf*ck the American people (a grand sweeping generalisation that I could, but can't be bothered, to back up).HalfShadow said:
Just to put the loss of life in to some kind of perspective:
Imagine 9/11 every day for a year. That's the Blitz.
Iraqi civilian deaths (this is excluding the wounded) 2003-2008: 84,302 - 91,974 (source: http://www.iraqbodycount.org/ )
9/11 total loss of life: 2973 (source: www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/22/terror/ )
Only conclusion I can draw now is: Stop whining. The reaction to the event was/is far more significant and damaging to the world than the event itself could ever have been. Besides, the loss of New Orleans was worse, when you consider the scale of the immediate impact on human life.
I don't think it's relevant to put it up like that. You can't compare an attack on USA homeland (something never happened before) to nature catastrophes and what the brits had to endure under the blitz. It's kind of unfair to compare things over how many people died without any further calculations (Not that I support the way the americans reacted or anything, it's just misleading to put it up like thatedinflames said:
).
That's a good point, America has never been attacked as directly as 9/11, even Pearl Harbour is way out in the Pacific, so attacks on americans must have always been something of an abstract to people in the home states. 9/11 must have really cut deep.Uskis said:I don't think it's relevant to put it up like that. You can't compare an attack on USA homeland (something never happened before) to nature catastrophes and what the brits had to endure under the blitz. It's kind of unfair to compare things over how many people died without any further calculations (Not that I support the way the americans reacted or anything, it's just misleading to put it up like that
contrast that to europe, which has seen near constant violence in the 20th century (ww1, ww2, the Balkans, Northern Ireland, Spain, Greece). So whilst violence and terroism still shocks in europe its no longer as shocking as it might (should) be.
back on subject: That hijackers gag in postal would have been funnier if they'd ended with them announcing the trip to hawai, making it 9/11 was a too much.
I respect what he was trying to say. "We want to make people think: What is a taboo? We want to make people start thinking about their own boundaries and rules." I would do the same. I would also find a less offensive way to do so.
Actually, that was a perfectly fine use of the word Irony. Sarcasm is actually a simple form of irony, though most of the time when people talk about irony they are referring to something more subtle (like saying it's ironic that Alanis Morrisette would sing a song called Ironic about irony when she doesn't appear to understand what irony is. Unless that was all part of the irony, in which case she was being ironic (and sarcastic) when she sang 'Isn't it ironic, don't you think?')The_root_of_all_evil said:Ironically, I think you mean your sarcasm alarm.electric discordian said:
Aww, diddums.Uskis said:I don't think it's relevant to put it up like that. You can't compare an attack on USA homeland (something never happened before) to nature catastrophes and what the brits had to endure under the blitz. It's kind of unfair to compare things over how many people died without any further calculations (Not that I support the way the americans reacted or anything, it's just misleading to put it up like thatedinflames said:
The American government and media have been reglating anything to do with 9/11 as "Thems, is bad terrorists, we must extinguish them at the core, NEVER FORGET, but don't let it be shown."
As most ways of life, you can have your cake, but you can't eat it all.
You can't say that 9/11 was to be "never forget" and then go "Actually, please don't mention". I'm glad that Uwe had the balls to do this, be it pandering for contreversy, but you know what? At least it's better than the panderings for contraversy on family guy, or any other "LOL I PUSHY THE ENVELOPEE, I'M NOT MEANT TO SAY TAHT!" "comedy" shows that are being aired. One of the spiderman films had to be edited to remove the towers, for what? "NEVER FORGET, BUT FORGET JUST NOW."
Also just because X didn't happen to america before, well..
It happened now. Get used to it.
Friends and families of people die all the time. Just because yours was due to war, doesn't make your loss any different to the Afganis, Iraqis, Serbs and Vietnameese who died during their respective wars, in which America helped with the murder.
Just how important is 9/11 now to the government? Watch Sicko. http://freedocumentaries.org/film.php?id=133
9/11's heroes do not mean shit to America anymore.
BACK ON TOPIC
If Uwe Boll is truthful in what he says (which, having not seen his films, I cannot certify or deny), he is doing something many mainstream comics are not :
Actually pushing he envelope.
Films like the 40 year old virgin, anchorman, dodgeball and semi pro are essentially trying to be borderline of what you "Can't do" without pissing off the mainstream bodies. This film, is actually pissing off the mainstream bodies. Good.
Regardless of if it's a shitfest, or not, I admire the film simply for that. It goes clumsily where mainstream pretends to go.
"Also just because X didn't happen to america before, well..
It happened now. Get used to it.
Friends and families of people die all the time. Just because yours was due to war, doesn't make your loss any different to the Afganis, Iraqis, Serbs and Vietnameese who died during their respective wars, in which America helped with the murder.
Just how important is 9/11 now to the government? Watch Sicko. http://freedocumentaries.org/film.php?id=133
9/11's heroes do not mean shit to America anymore."
Swoosh...
Was I defending or in anyway agreeing with the american media? Not at all. My point was that it doesn't make sense to make that comparison.
It happened now. Get used to it.
Friends and families of people die all the time. Just because yours was due to war, doesn't make your loss any different to the Afganis, Iraqis, Serbs and Vietnameese who died during their respective wars, in which America helped with the murder.
Just how important is 9/11 now to the government? Watch Sicko. http://freedocumentaries.org/film.php?id=133
9/11's heroes do not mean shit to America anymore."
Swoosh...
Was I defending or in anyway agreeing with the american media? Not at all. My point was that it doesn't make sense to make that comparison.
His shameless unwillingness to take 9/11 seriously is why I actually WANT to see Postal. It's damn ballsy, EVEN if he knows its just controversy for controversies sake, it's good to see SOMEONE taking risks, even if its a talentless hack like Boll.
Because of this, and the fact that I don't want to admit that Videogame movies are pretty much doomed to suck regardless of who directs them, I voted Pro-Boll on the Online Petition. Also his terrible movies make developers more careful about whom they let acquire their IP's. Boll is a necessary evil, he serves his function, you know, like stomach bacteria, or a bottom feeder.
Because of this, and the fact that I don't want to admit that Videogame movies are pretty much doomed to suck regardless of who directs them, I voted Pro-Boll on the Online Petition. Also his terrible movies make developers more careful about whom they let acquire their IP's. Boll is a necessary evil, he serves his function, you know, like stomach bacteria, or a bottom feeder.