Is Uwe boll Really that bad?

Richard J. Johnson

Richard J. Johnson

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I am not too familiar with him or his movies, Maybe for good reason, Is he a bad director, or a good director that directs bad movies or both? The hate for this guy seems universal and hilarious at times. He even seems to enjoy it. He was on Spike TV last night co-hosting some show. Just curious.:beer:

UPDATE! I just watched House of the dead and BloodRayne. FORGET I POSTED THIS!! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! WHO GIVES THIS GUY MONEY??!
 
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Hi,

Pull your post, change your screen name, change your avatar.

I'll forget I saw this.

I promise.
 
filthrich said:
I am not too familiar with him or his movies, Maybe for good reason, Is he a bad director, or a good director that directs bad movies or both? The hate for this guy seems universal and hilarious at times. He even seems to enjoy it. He was on Spike TV last night co-hosting some show. Just curious.:beer:
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*sigh* I hate to say this, but 'you fail at life'
 
http://www.joblo.com/uwe-boll-is-awesome

Oh, my god.

(Watch the video)

The moment he called Michael Bay a f*cking retard was the moment I got on the phone to a hitman. He's seriously p1ssed me off now. I don't mind if fellow filmmakers on DVX User call Michael Bay a retard, but when It comes to someone of his position.
 
"You will see my real genius"
"I am the only genius in the whole F'n business"

Now there's some quotes for you..... Give him credit for having big nads.
 
MikeGunter said:
Hi,

Pull your post, change your screen name, change your avatar.

I'll forget I saw this.

I promise.
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I want to hug you!

Uwe Boll is an investment broker who purposely makes moves that look good on paper are expensive and are really bad moves that lose money. His plan depends on a movie with lots of hype that is a complete flop. That way he can/could take advantage of German tax loopholes to write off the entire film budget. Germany reformed its film tax system because Uwe used the loophole to rake in hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars.
 
Arson said:
Germany reformed its film tax system because Uwe used the loophole to rake in hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars.
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My daughter graduated from Tübingen University, south of Stuttgart. In a weird way Germany owes a debt to Uwe to stop the insanity of the crap of his waste of celluloid.

But in a more terrible way, he's single-handedly destroyed what could have been a funnel of resources to the arts - for that he should be vilified. That loophole - if I understand it, was to promote the arts by "losing" the donated money to artists to promote their their art. This could have gone to legitimate films shots and features, dance recitals, theater companies, individual artists, puppetry troupes, and the like.

Blood Rayne would have funded something like a touring puppet Hansel and Gretel for all of Germany for grades K-2 for a year. Plus supplied workshops for the teachers for making puppets and supplies for theater for their children. Given that, which would have made a more lasting contribution?

What a shame.
 
I agree that Boll's films are wastes of celluloid. But I bet he's also being scapegoated for hurting Germany's public film funding system. The finger can't be pointed solely at him. There is the system that hired him. The development process that greenlighted those terrible scripts. The executives who thought it was a good investment of Germans' tax dollars. Those people are equally, or more accountable. Boll appears to be a bad filmmaker, based on his oeuvre, but even worse is the system that gave him the millions to make movie after movie. I'm sure a lot of German filmmakers are furious, as their films were passed over for financing.

Was German investment all "tax credit"? Or was there actual front-end investment from Germany's film financing funds?
 
Hi sean90291,

I think I get your drift, I may have given him far too much credit as Mr. Evil, just a contributor.

Blood Rayne did its damage for sure, but so did a lot of others here and abroad - too numerous to count.

I think my dander is up in that his damage is palpable to visual and theatrical arts. And that may well trickle - if one believes in that - down to us all.
 
The same has happened in Canada several times. A few "bad decisions" get used as fuel for opponents to the arts and arts funding. We have to be vigilant in holding our culturual financing institutions accountable. Because they can sometimes operate with a lot of insulation from market forces (i.e., the U.S. answers to box office and executives' heads roll when they don't deliver box office, while in Canada and probably Germany, a lot of production decisions are decided by bureaucrats). The danger is that we lose support for the arts and arts funding altogether.
 
What Uwe Boll actually does, is fantastic cinema and not like most of the rest of german filmmakers, making social critically and boring everyday movies. Of course these are also important, but not always.

His films are bad (you can't deny this fact :D), but he does what many other germans should try. Make movies that are NOT about everyday normal life. I can see that everyday on my own, I don't need to watch that in a cinema too.

The german movie system sucks. There is no real market, you can't just sell your movies. And the only low budget movies that really do get supported by the government or anybody else are social critical movies and movies with educational value. We've got enough of that.

And most german movies look like crap. I don't know what it is, but you can often tell within a few seconds if it is a german movie or not. I've seen so many good movies from dvxuser members that totally destroy 90% of germanys crap. It just looks awesome.
I watched the "No Greater Love" trailer from Brandon Rice and thought: Wow, this looks amazing, why can't germans do that?

Of course there are a few exceptions, but just a few. So I have to give Uwe Boll some credit for trying to make such movies and that they at least look alot better than many other german movies. And he makes money.
 
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I am not entirely familiar with his body of work but i did see House of the Dead and was just like WTF ?

It was bad bad bad bad.

The real question is:

Is he improving as he goes ? I love watching filmmakers grow and am not really seeing it from this guy.

You can watch a filmmaker like Raimi making quantum leaps from Evil Dead to Darkman to The Quick and the Dead to a Simple Plan. His growth visually was evident

Jackson's Brain Dead to Heavenly Creatures to The Frighteners.

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These guys first film visually were bleh if not entertaining, but the growth was right in fornt of our eyes with each subsequent picture.

Uwe Bolle doesn't appear to be making any leaps.

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Sheeeeeeeeeeeettttttttttt

After watching Micheal Bay's Transformers, I doubt that guy has any growth left him in with his lame style.
 
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